Is anyone else working on any interim projects while waiting for the uConsole to arrive? I bought a beat-up Lenovo ThinkPad T470 14’’ on Ebay. Electronics restoration has always been fun for me.
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Just messing around with tic 80 and pico 8 while anticipating the uconsole!! Can’t wait to slowly make pocket games while laying in bed or on the can.
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work on something you’ve never done before. Open the laptop and clean it out, replace the thermal paste, upgrade to an SSD, you can even buy after market 1920x1080 screens for those. install OpenBSD or Arch or Gentoo, run VM’s, start a coding project!
Personally, I’m learning soldering. Specifically to fix HDMI ports on PS5’s/Xbox’s because I know two owners of tech repair stores who outsource all their soldering jobs to a lab and just take a cut, and thought, hey, that could be me. I’ve only done some simple stuff, like broken USB connectors on a thumb drive, but, I will practice on old motherboards to get better!
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picked up a Panasonic toughbook - running a SSD and linux on it… with a 12 volt car adapter it’s quite ‘portable’ but not light … also have a Dell 2110 on SSD running linux as well - it is very portable but kind of boring…
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Got a rpi 4b 8gb to tinker on 64 bit rapsbian and to play retropie with my son (teaching him the ways of my childhood on mega drive).
On the other hand, I ordered the nonvariant of the cm4 version with 4g chip and while i wait (order no. 223xx), I also ordered a reterminal which will arrive much faster (5 to 10 days) and also includes a CM4108032 so I can play with the module for the mean time.
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Hopefully they’ve fixed the issue with updates. The last time I tried updating the display quit working. I had to flash back to an older version to get the screen back.
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Thanks! Will bookmark this to try!
Ordered a reTerminal and bunch of sensors, devices for smartHome… Home Assistant server.
I completed last month teaching my son how to build a keyboard and program it with RP2040 board (Python) and programing games on HP Prime.
Always fun to have DIY or Web project on the side.
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Some updates.
I received my reTerminal. Nice device with good finish.
Switched it on and went through RapberryOS config. and update.
At reboot I have a brick. Checked on their forum, they have 2y old thread where this problem is not resolved. Summary: after each os update (apt-get upgrade), the drivers are gone and require many steps to re-install the os or driver. In my case I can’t switch to USB-Boot to reinstall and the drivers can’t compile on my kernel. This means, now I need to debug this company’s code to re-install an OS or Drivers. Avoid this device is my recommendation. 240$ for a brick at every update and hours of dismounting device and debug.
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@barry99705 talked me out of getting one of those recently for the exact same issues you are having. I was really disappointed to hear how poor their support is for such a nice sleek and well manufactured device.
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ah yes, I missed his message above.
I am still working on it. I am progressing, I am installing the 64bit version now. I will check how far I go to use this device as Home Assistant server
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Mine runs my 3d printer with klipper and klipperscreen. I just don’t update the os anymore.
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Updates (this is not reTerminal forum so this is my last post on that 
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I installed the official RaspberryPI OS 64bits, and installed the drivers manually following the wiki info. I was able to upgrade the os and drivers are ok (Screen ok).
The issue is the reTerminal version of the os which deletes drivers with upgrades.
I installed Home Assistant, ESPHome, MQTT and playing with some ESP32 sensors (temp, CO2, Camera, etc.)
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Thanks for this information, I had the ReTerminal on my wishlist. I had similar issues with some of their other devices. A lot of the Seeed Studio electronics look great, but a ton of the documentation is out of date or takes you to a sketchy Chinese site.
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