SPIRIT-ual Successor to the "Building a Linux Phone" project
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/64949868
Per my last post, (which can be found here: lemmy.zip/post/53113975), I continued to mess around with a mobile broadband modem, and got it working! With a caveat... it only works when plugged into wall power. The battery I have does not supply enough power to fully enable the modem through USB power, due the raspberry pi being very power hungry. Unfortunately, this seemingly simple problem is actually a larger problem that seems to only be solved by an overly complicated solution: designing a custom battery controller PCB that responds to the pi5's (or ideally, a different processor entirely) needs more appropriately.Take a look at the state of the device here:
Last time I posted here, many interested folks responded with great ideas and feedback. Fortunately, one of the comments lead me to the project that would ultimately end this project in its current state. Link to that comment here: lemmy.zip/post/53113975/227795…
Its flaws are visible. While the device has personality, it lacks ease of use. These days I use it as a "cyberdeck"/field debugging computer, and I use it with a small controller-sized Riitek keyboard, because the screen's touch capability is on the fritz, likely because of the poor design choice to leave the screen's ribbon cable partially exposed.
This leads me to the conclusion: this project is falling into "hobby" or more accurately, unsupported status. I like the device for my personal use, and I may update the design in the future for my own purposes, and release it for free for public use, though I don't imagine there will be a huge amount of interest in building this device considering the skyrocketing cost of Pi devices nowadays. There is a more reasonable path forward, and I alluded to it earlier: custom PCBs. That's where the SPIRIT project comes in: github.com/SPIRIT-org/SPIRIT
You can see in one of the pictures above, the SPIRIT project is designing a phone that can be completely replicated at home. Well, once they get there it will be. I've exchanged brief communications with the individual running the project, Jan, and while he hasn't stated that these projects are linked in any way, I'd like to think that the SPIRIT project carries forward the values and goals of the project I started. If you were at all interested in my project, give the SPIRIT project github a like or favorite.
Take a look at the v3lectronics youtube channel where Jan livestreams work on the SPIRIT project: youtube.com/@V_Electronics
The spirit github link again: github.com/SPIRIT-org/SPIRIT
Please contribute if you have any level of knowledge to contribute! These projects thrive on the careful contributions of other humans across the world!
SPIRIT-ual Successor to the "Building a Linux Phone" project
Sorry its been so long since there was an update regarding this project.Per my last post, (which can be found here: lemmy.zip/post/53113975), I continued to mess around with a mobile broadband modem, and got it working! With a caveat... it only works when plugged into wall power. The battery I have does not supply enough power to fully enable the modem through USB power, due the raspberry pi being very power hungry. Unfortunately, this seemingly simple problem is actually a larger problem that seems to only be solved by an overly complicated solution: designing a custom battery controller PCB that responds to the pi5's (or ideally, a different processor entirely) needs more appropriately.
Take a look at the state of the device here:
Last time I posted here, many interested folks responded with great ideas and feedback. Fortunately, one of the comments lead me to the project that would ultimately end this project in its current state. Link to that comment here: lemmy.zip/post/53113975/227795…
Its flaws are visible. While the device has personality, it lacks ease of use. These days I use it as a "cyberdeck"/field debugging computer, and I use it with a small controller-sized Riitek keyboard, because the screen's touch capability is on the fritz, likely because of the poor design choice to leave the screen's ribbon cable partially exposed.
This leads me to the conclusion: this project is falling into "hobby" or more accurately, unsupported status. I like the device for my personal use, and I may update the design in the future for my own purposes, and release it for free for public use, though I don't imagine there will be a huge amount of interest in building this device considering the skyrocketing cost of Pi devices nowadays. There is a more reasonable path forward, and I alluded to it earlier: custom PCBs. That's where the SPIRIT project comes in: github.com/SPIRIT-org/SPIRIT
You can see in one of the pictures above, the SPIRIT project is designing a phone that can be completely replicated at home. Well, once they get there it will be. I've exchanged brief communications with the individual running the project, Jan, and while he hasn't stated that these projects are linked in any way, I'd like to think that the SPIRIT project carries forward the values and goals of the project I started. If you were at all interested in my project, give the SPIRIT project github a like or favorite.
Take a look at the v3lectronics youtube channel where Jan livestreams work on the SPIRIT project: youtube.com/@V_Electronics
The spirit github link again: github.com/SPIRIT-org/SPIRIT
Please contribute if you have any level of knowledge to contribute! These projects thrive on the careful contributions of other humans across the world!
V Electronics
Building an open hardware & open software smartphone that can be used daily by the general public. I'm a mostly self-taught individual who is extremely passionate about engineering. Studying mechatronics engineering. I main electronics and IT.YouTube
non_burglar
in reply to digitalRights4All • • •digitalRights4All
in reply to non_burglar • • •If you're looking for additional context, it would likely be found by reading the previous post which I linked in the post body. Here is the link again: lemmy.zip/post/53113975
Edit: But, that’s besides the point! Give the SPIRIT phone project a look on github! github.com/SPIRIT-org/SPIRIT
GitHub - SPIRIT-org/SPIRIT: Smartphone based on the Raspberry Pi CM 5.
GitHubnon_burglar
in reply to digitalRights4All • • •MonkderVierte
in reply to non_burglar • • •Right, cross-posting doesn't cross-post the whole thing. 🤦♂️
Can we consider this a UX bug? Be it on Lemmy or Voyager.
digitalRights4All
in reply to MonkderVierte • • •I found this closed issue: github.com/aeharding/voyager/i…
Here is an excerpt from that link
Seems like its a setting in the FE, with an, in my opinion, non-sensible default. Might be worth submitting an issue and asking for the default for that setting to be flipped, since it seems to be causing confusion.
Crossposted text isnt showing up · Issue #1409 · aeharding/voyager
slrgt (GitHub)digitalRights4All
in reply to non_burglar • • •Not sure how my comment was at all passive. From my perspective using the default lemmy.zip frontend, I can see the post body, which answered the question you were asking before you had asked it. I clearly stated what I thought you were asking for, mentioned how to find the info and that it was already provided, and then provided the link again. If anything, my comment was aggressive, there was no passivity about it.
Now that I'm aware that some frontends for federated social media do not show the body of crossposts, which I verified by checking the voyager frontend for myself, I went ahead and checked the github for the FE. I found this closed issue: github.com/aeharding/voyager/i…
Here is an excerpt from that link
... Show more...Not sure how my comment was at all passive. From my perspective using the default lemmy.zip frontend, I can see the post body, which answered the question you were asking before you had asked it. I clearly stated what I thought you were asking for, mentioned how to find the info and that it was already provided, and then provided the link again. If anything, my comment was aggressive, there was no passivity about it.
Now that I'm aware that some frontends for federated social media do not show the body of crossposts, which I verified by checking the voyager frontend for myself, I went ahead and checked the github for the FE. I found this closed issue: github.com/aeharding/voyager/i…
Here is an excerpt from that link
Hope that addresses your concerns, which are unrelated to the actual post.
Regardless as I mentioned in the post body, my project is ending, so the main image of the post is just an attention grabber to funnel people towards this project led by a different team. github.com/SPIRIT-org/SPIRIT
Crossposted text isnt showing up · Issue #1409 · aeharding/voyager
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eshep
in reply to digitalRights4All • •In case you weren't aware, everything from the crosspost shows as intended in Friendica, same (formatting aside) as I see it if I go to the
lemmy.zippost.Really cool project too!! I've wanted for quite some time to build one that mounts on my arm like in the later episodes of Chuck. I was thinking of runing #postmarketOS on mine though.
Hope ye stick with it, this is what it's all about.
\m/
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non_burglar
in reply to digitalRights4All • • •Are you aware that I don't have your perspective?
I wanted to know more about your project, from your own words. Instead I got a lecture about how "dumb" I am, so I'm no longer interested, because you seem like a jerk. Whether that was intensional or is coming from an ill-adapted social outlook, I'm still not sure of.
You seem to care more about being correct than talking about your project, which is your choice, I suppose.
I'd close this with a glib sign-off like "have a nice day", but I'm not sure having a nice day is within your array of skills.