Lilygo T-Deck: 2.8-inch IPS LCD display, mini keyboard, and ESP32 processor

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  • tulipcc

    The Tulip Creative Computer - a portable Python synthesizer for music and graphics

  • Gah, I just ordered one on impulse [1]. I've wanted to build out a WiFi PDA for quite some time now and I like this hardware.

    I'm quite liking the idea of running tulip MicroPython [2] on it, or going back to pure MicroPython [3] and writing some drivers. Apparently something like ampy can be used to upload/download Python files [4].

    Threads could be quite exciting for running multiple programs at once [5], although I have no idea what it means for two programs to fight over GPIO! It does seem as though MicroPython can only utilise a single core [6].

    [1] https://www.lilygo.cc/products/t-deck?variant=43087936487605

    [2] https://github.com/bwhitman/tulipcc/tree/main/tulip/tdeck

    [3] https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/esp32/tutorial/intro....

    [4] https://www.digikey.co.uk/en/maker/projects/micropython-basi...

    [5] https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/library/_thread.html

    [6] https://github.com/micropython/micropython/issues/8197

  • beepy

    Beepy

  • This is the hardware that I wish Beepy had: https://beepy.sqfmi.com

    By the way, does anyone know why all of these devices use the Arabic BlackBerry keyboard? Was there a particular surplus of this layout?

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  • MicroPython

    MicroPython - a lean and efficient Python implementation for microcontrollers and constrained systems

  • Gah, I just ordered one on impulse [1]. I've wanted to build out a WiFi PDA for quite some time now and I like this hardware.

    I'm quite liking the idea of running tulip MicroPython [2] on it, or going back to pure MicroPython [3] and writing some drivers. Apparently something like ampy can be used to upload/download Python files [4].

    Threads could be quite exciting for running multiple programs at once [5], although I have no idea what it means for two programs to fight over GPIO! It does seem as though MicroPython can only utilise a single core [6].

    [1] https://www.lilygo.cc/products/t-deck?variant=43087936487605

    [2] https://github.com/bwhitman/tulipcc/tree/main/tulip/tdeck

    [3] https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/esp32/tutorial/intro....

    [4] https://www.digikey.co.uk/en/maker/projects/micropython-basi...

    [5] https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/library/_thread.html

    [6] https://github.com/micropython/micropython/issues/8197

  • zamek

    Your Digital Keychain

  • porting my Zamek password manager to the T-Track now https://github.com/jareklupinski/zamek

    i wonder where they get their hands on those little trackballs...

    after Blackberrys went out, the only way to get any reasonable qty of them was to buy a plastic bag of like 200 from some random vendor; i was never able to get my hands on a steady supply to turn Zamek into a product :(

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