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ishotjr ✨💙✨💗✨ @[email protected] · 2026-04-30 · 17:38 UTC

RE: https://chaos.social/@alexglow/116489146246864860

Going live with @alexglow for #DayGlowShow in about an hour and a half! Bring your "obsolete" tech and let's see what we can breathe some new life into together! 🤘💾🤘

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Blpmwk8raw&list=PLoHh3GdjF7AGJ-dg4lmwdSNmVCPBr7aOn&index=10

#LightBlueBean #PocketCHIP #Pebble #chumby #SensorWatch #Electronics #Maker #Sustainability #Repairability #RightToRepair #MakersOfMastodon

#dayglowshow #lightbluebean #pocketchip #pebble #chumby #sensorwatch

ishotjr ✨💙✨💗✨ @[email protected] · 2026-04-30 · 17:38 UTC

RE: https://chaos.social/@alexglow/116489146246864860

Going live with @alexglow for #DayGlowShow in about an hour and a half! Bring your "obsolete" tech and let's see what we can breathe some new life into together! 🤘💾🤘

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Blpmwk8raw&list=PLoHh3GdjF7AGJ-dg4lmwdSNmVCPBr7aOn&index=10

#LightBlueBean #PocketCHIP #Pebble #chumby #SensorWatch #Electronics #Maker #Sustainability #Repairability #RightToRepair #MakersOfMastodon

#dayglowshow #lightbluebean #pocketchip #pebble #chumby #sensorwatch

ishotjr ✨💙✨💗✨ @[email protected] · 2026-04-30 · 17:38 UTC

RE: https://chaos.social/@alexglow/116489146246864860

Going live with @alexglow for #DayGlowShow in about an hour and a half! Bring your "obsolete" tech and let's see what we can breathe some new life into together! 🤘💾🤘

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Blpmwk8raw&list=PLoHh3GdjF7AGJ-dg4lmwdSNmVCPBr7aOn&index=10

#LightBlueBean #PocketCHIP #Pebble #chumby #SensorWatch #Electronics #Maker #Sustainability #Repairability #RightToRepair #MakersOfMastodon

#dayglowshow #lightbluebean #pocketchip #pebble #chumby #sensorwatch

ishotjr ✨💙✨💗✨ @[email protected] · 2026-04-30 · 17:38 UTC

RE: https://chaos.social/@alexglow/116489146246864860

Going live with @alexglow for #DayGlowShow in about an hour and a half! Bring your "obsolete" tech and let's see what we can breathe some new life into together! 🤘💾🤘

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Blpmwk8raw&list=PLoHh3GdjF7AGJ-dg4lmwdSNmVCPBr7aOn&index=10

#LightBlueBean #PocketCHIP #Pebble #chumby #SensorWatch #Electronics #Maker #Sustainability #Repairability #RightToRepair #MakersOfMastodon

#makersofmastodon #righttorepair #repairability #sustainability #maker #electronics

ishotjr ✨💙✨💗✨ @[email protected] · 2026-04-30 · 17:38 UTC

RE: https://chaos.social/@alexglow/116489146246864860

Going live with @alexglow for #DayGlowShow in about an hour and a half! Bring your "obsolete" tech and let's see what we can breathe some new life into together! 🤘💾🤘

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Blpmwk8raw&list=PLoHh3GdjF7AGJ-dg4lmwdSNmVCPBr7aOn&index=10

#LightBlueBean #PocketCHIP #Pebble #chumby #SensorWatch #Electronics #Maker #Sustainability #Repairability #RightToRepair #MakersOfMastodon

#dayglowshow #lightbluebean #pocketchip #pebble #chumby #sensorwatch

chuang @[email protected] · 2026-03-28 · 06:10 UTC

#NixOS and #niri on #PocketCHIP because why not

https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/pull/1807

#nixos #niri #pocketchip

Blake Patterson @[email protected] · 2025-10-27 · 22:59 UTC

@paulrickards Impressive! My PocketCHIP sits beyond my displays on the wall ledge. I've not used it in a few years.

What emulator is that?

The "keyboard" on the thing as is is pretty abysmal. I started to try and pull the clear adhesive sheet off, not realizing that was all that was holding the "key caps" in place -- figured it out before too late, thankfully.

#PocketCHIP #BBS #Linux

#pocketchip #bbs #linux

Martin @[email protected] · 2025-07-10 · 06:39 UTC

@extrowerk Do you know any other cheap handheld device able to run *BSD? I also have a #PocketCHIP, which runs #Linux, but it's very slow...

#pocketchip #linux

ana/catarina @[email protected] · 2025-01-27 · 15:40 UTC

saw a video the other day of someone making a silicon keyboard for a membrane keyboard and I thought of doing the same thing for my #PocketCHIP that has been sitting on a shelf for a while. Got my partner to 3D print a mold and some silicon, and it turned out way better than I expected ✨ makes typing on this thing way better

#pocketchip

dadecoza @[email protected] · 2024-12-04 · 15:55 UTC

maybe not very practical but still cool to see #pidgin with the #meshtastic plugin running on a #pocketchip 🤓

#pidgin #meshtastic #pocketchip

⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @[email protected] · 2024-10-13 · 17:12 UTC

Thanks whomever now has my #pocketChip from the #oggcamp2024 swaps table.
Enjoy it!

#pocketchip #oggcamp2024

Harald Klinke @[email protected] · 2024-06-24 · 19:57 UTC

Check out the Pocket CHIP, a retro handheld device perfect for coding, playing PICO-8 games, making music, and more! 🎮💻 #RetroTech #PocketCHIP #Coding #DIYTech
http://chip.jfpossibilities.com/docs/pocketchip.html#welcome-to-pocketc-h-i-p

#retrotech #pocketchip #coding #diytech

mvu @[email protected] · 2024-06-15 · 01:41 UTC

Now I'm getting somewhere with my crappy music making setup.

I've got everything I need except talent and/or any musical knowledge whatsoever, so that's next to figure out~

#pocketchip #midi #music #linux

mvu @[email protected] · 2024-06-14 · 03:09 UTC

#pocketCHIP update:
- 3D printed a case and keyboard (the keyboard designer decided NOT to include letters on the keys).
- Managed to update the apt sources to the Debian Jessie archives and update pretty much everything (but I'm not going to play with fire, staying on Jessie)
- Got the terminal version of #Orca compiled and running with portmidi

Now I'm trying to compile a newer version of SDL2 so I can run a newer version of #SunVox (I want that multi-instrument midi in goodness)

If all goes well I'll have a very neat little portable instrument ~

#pocketchip #orca #sunvox

nytpu the wyvern @[email protected] · 2024-04-16 · 23:08 UTC

CW: Thinking about NextThingCo (makers of the CHIP and PocketCHIP)

Thinking about #NextThingCo (makers of the #CHIP and #PocketCHIP) and how they could've had a real good thing going if they didn't make a few mistakes.

1. They were aiming for *too* low of a price point IMO. They clearly wanted the sub-$10 price point, but they made the CHIP a $11 computer instead of a $9 one then perhaps it would've been less of a mess hardware-wise (e.g. maybe it could've just had a more reasonable SoC and eMMC instead of some bootleg chinesium SoC with onboard flash that has with zero upstream Kernel support and is very difficult to work with when externally reflashing) . Similarly for the PocketCHIP (a speaker and a better keyboard would've been wonderful)

2. They were trying to sell rather niche things that may sell 10,000 units (if they're being optimistic), which is a lot but well short of really real mass production, and yet they wanted to sell it for a price you can only get with massive economies of scale. Like, the PocketCHIP had injection molded parts, which is a crazy expense. I remember c. 2015 when Raspberry Pi started making official cases (this was the 3b+ era), and they made a blog post about how cool it was that they could finally afford injection molds to make an official case—and this is a company that had massive worldwide cachet, the same year they had also become the best-selling British computer company in history (surpassing the ZX Spectrum)

3. They had a Panic/Playdate situation where they clearly had no clue about the realities of scaling up production and ended up really irritating many people that made early preorders, but unlike Panic they weren't very open about the delays and problems (and I'd say Panic wasn't very open either, but at least they said anything at all)

#nextthingco #chip #pocketchip

nytpu the wyvern @[email protected] · 2024-04-16 · 23:08 UTC

CW: Thinking about NextThingCo (makers of the CHIP and PocketCHIP)

Thinking about #NextThingCo (makers of the #CHIP and #PocketCHIP) and how they could've had a real good thing going if they didn't make a few mistakes.

1. They were aiming for *too* low of a price point IMO. They clearly wanted the sub-$10 price point, but they made the CHIP a $11 computer instead of a $9 one then perhaps it would've been less of a mess hardware-wise (e.g. maybe it could've just had a more reasonable SoC and eMMC instead of some bootleg chinesium SoC with onboard flash that has with zero upstream Kernel support and is very difficult to work with when externally reflashing) . Similarly for the PocketCHIP (a speaker and a better keyboard would've been wonderful)

2. They were trying to sell rather niche things that may sell 10,000 units (if they're being optimistic), which is a lot but well short of really real mass production, and yet they wanted to sell it for a price you can only get with massive economies of scale. Like, the PocketCHIP had injection molded parts, which is a crazy expense. I remember c. 2015 when Raspberry Pi started making official cases (this was the 3b+ era), and they made a blog post about how cool it was that they could finally afford injection molds to make an official case—and this is a company that had massive worldwide cachet, the same year they had also become the best-selling British computer company in history (surpassing the ZX Spectrum)

3. They had a Panic/Playdate situation where they clearly had no clue about the realities of scaling up production and ended up really irritating many people that made early preorders, but unlike Panic they weren't very open about the delays and problems (and I'd say Panic wasn't very open either, but at least they said anything at all)

#nextthingco #chip #pocketchip

nytpu the wyvern @[email protected] · 2024-04-16 · 23:08 UTC

CW: Thinking about NextThingCo (makers of the CHIP and PocketCHIP)

Thinking about #NextThingCo (makers of the #CHIP and #PocketCHIP) and how they could've had a real good thing going if they didn't make a few mistakes.

1. They were aiming for *too* low of a price point IMO. They clearly wanted the sub-$10 price point, but they made the CHIP a $11 computer instead of a $9 one then perhaps it would've been less of a mess hardware-wise (e.g. maybe it could've just had a more reasonable SoC and eMMC instead of some bootleg chinesium SoC with onboard flash that has with zero upstream Kernel support and is very difficult to work with when externally reflashing) . Similarly for the PocketCHIP (a speaker and a better keyboard would've been wonderful)

2. They were trying to sell rather niche things that may sell 10,000 units (if they're being optimistic), which is a lot but well short of really real mass production, and yet they wanted to sell it for a price you can only get with massive economies of scale. Like, the PocketCHIP had injection molded parts, which is a crazy expense. I remember c. 2015 when Raspberry Pi started making official cases (this was the 3b+ era), and they made a blog post about how cool it was that they could finally afford injection molds to make an official case—and this is a company that had massive worldwide cachet, the same year they had also become the best-selling British computer company in history (surpassing the ZX Spectrum)

3. They had a Panic/Playdate situation where they clearly had no clue about the realities of scaling up production and ended up really irritating many people that made early preorders, but unlike Panic they weren't very open about the delays and problems (and I'd say Panic wasn't very open either, but at least they said anything at all)

#nextthingco #chip #pocketchip

nytpu the wyvern @[email protected] · 2024-04-16 · 23:08 UTC

CW: Thinking about NextThingCo (makers of the CHIP and PocketCHIP)

Thinking about #NextThingCo (makers of the #CHIP and #PocketCHIP) and how they could've had a real good thing going if they didn't make a few mistakes.

1. They were aiming for *too* low of a price point IMO. They clearly wanted the sub-$10 price point, but they made the CHIP a $11 computer instead of a $9 one then perhaps it would've been less of a mess hardware-wise (e.g. maybe it could've just had a more reasonable SoC and eMMC instead of some bootleg chinesium SoC with onboard flash that has with zero upstream Kernel support and is very difficult to work with when externally reflashing) . Similarly for the PocketCHIP (a speaker and a better keyboard would've been wonderful)

2. They were trying to sell rather niche things that may sell 10,000 units (if they're being optimistic), which is a lot but well short of really real mass production, and yet they wanted to sell it for a price you can only get with massive economies of scale. Like, the PocketCHIP had injection molded parts, which is a crazy expense. I remember c. 2015 when Raspberry Pi started making official cases (this was the 3b+ era), and they made a blog post about how cool it was that they could finally afford injection molds to make an official case—and this is a company that had massive worldwide cachet, the same year they had also become the best-selling British computer company in history (surpassing the ZX Spectrum)

3. They had a Panic/Playdate situation where they clearly had no clue about the realities of scaling up production and ended up really irritating many people that made early preorders, but unlike Panic they weren't very open about the delays and problems (and I'd say Panic wasn't very open either, but at least they said anything at all)

#pocketchip #chip #nextthingco

nytpu the wyvern @[email protected] · 2024-04-16 · 23:08 UTC

CW: Thinking about NextThingCo (makers of the CHIP and PocketCHIP)

Thinking about #NextThingCo (makers of the #CHIP and #PocketCHIP) and how they could've had a real good thing going if they didn't make a few mistakes.

1. They were aiming for *too* low of a price point IMO. They clearly wanted the sub-$10 price point, but they made the CHIP a $11 computer instead of a $9 one then perhaps it would've been less of a mess hardware-wise (e.g. maybe it could've just had a more reasonable SoC and eMMC instead of some bootleg chinesium SoC with onboard flash that has with zero upstream Kernel support and is very difficult to work with when externally reflashing) . Similarly for the PocketCHIP (a speaker and a better keyboard would've been wonderful)

2. They were trying to sell rather niche things that may sell 10,000 units (if they're being optimistic), which is a lot but well short of really real mass production, and yet they wanted to sell it for a price you can only get with massive economies of scale. Like, the PocketCHIP had injection molded parts, which is a crazy expense. I remember c. 2015 when Raspberry Pi started making official cases (this was the 3b+ era), and they made a blog post about how cool it was that they could finally afford injection molds to make an official case—and this is a company that had massive worldwide cachet, the same year they had also become the best-selling British computer company in history (surpassing the ZX Spectrum)

3. They had a Panic/Playdate situation where they clearly had no clue about the realities of scaling up production and ended up really irritating many people that made early preorders, but unlike Panic they weren't very open about the delays and problems (and I'd say Panic wasn't very open either, but at least they said anything at all)

#nextthingco #chip #pocketchip

maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @[email protected] · 2024-04-02 · 07:47 UTC

do i know anyone with a #pocketchip who's still on kernel 4.4? i'd like to confirm some things with the touch screen without having to reflash mine to an older kernel

#pocketchip

maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @[email protected] · 2024-04-01 · 03:15 UTC

#embedded #linux heads: i'm trying to change the boot animation on my #pocketchip. i can change the plymouth theme and update-initramfs and it shows the theme i picked. i cannot for the life of me preview plymouth without rebooting the computer, trying to debug plymouthd under x simply fails to use graphical mode and all i can previeiw is the fallback text boot splash. but on a real boot it works fine. help me not reboot my device a hundred times to test new themes

#embedded #linux #pocketchip

Gorgeous na Shock! @[email protected] · 2024-03-20 · 23:00 UTC

When is #PicoTron coming to the #PocketChip? 😩

#picotron #pocketchip

Blake Patterson @[email protected] · 2023-11-19 · 16:52 UTC

BBSing on the PocketCHIP at AwesomeCon in DC 5 years ago.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/41328311711/in/album-72157707233990765/

#PocketCHIP #mobile #BBS #BBSing #video #handheld #tech #computing #ARM #DC

#pocketchip #mobile #bbs #bbsing #video #handheld

Ride Theory @[email protected] · 2023-09-26 · 17:15 UTC

BTW, my desktop on the #PocketCHIP is a #KnottsBerryFarm "A" ticket. (The letters ran backwards relative to #Disneyland's A-to-E ticket system.)

#pocketchip #knottsberryfarm #disneyland

Ride Theory @[email protected] · 2023-09-26 · 17:08 UTC

I have a Next Thing Company #PocketCHIP, and it's been driving me crazy lately, as the WiFi never turns on automatically when I boot up. I throw the WiFi switch, and get a little spinning ball, forever, and you can't undo throwing the switch. The only way out is to reboot and try again.

To my annoyance, TIL that the little "x" in the WiFi indicator means next to nothing, as the PocketCHIP automatically connects to your previous wifi. All those reboots for nothin'!

#pocketchip

coffe☕ @[email protected] · 2023-09-10 · 19:45 UTC

Honesty, I have no idea what to do with my PocketChip. Right now it just stands on my desktop running cmatrix or aafire 😆 ☕

#pocketchip #debian #pico-8 #sketch #KritaArtist #Krista

#pocketchip #debian #pico #sketch #kritaartist #krista

Jason Cosper @[email protected] · 2023-07-31 · 22:03 UTC

Guess I need to learn how to do 3D modeling so I can design a #PocketCHIP style back for my #Beepy. 😅

#pocketchip #beepy

Denman Rooke @[email protected] · 2023-06-30 · 21:03 UTC

Writing some chiptune music on my little Linux pocketCHIP in PICO-8 at the pub. #pico8 #pocketchip #chiptune #linux

#pico8 #pocketchip #chiptune #linux

paulrickards @[email protected] · 2023-06-23 · 01:12 UTC

Minesweeper because solitaire didn’t place the cards right (probably because of the weird screen size?)

#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #VintageApple #VintageMac #PocketCHIP #MiniVMac #SoftPC #Windows31

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #vintageapple #vintagemac #pocketchip #minivmac

paulrickards @[email protected] · 2023-06-22 · 23:49 UTC

C:/win 🙃

#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #VintageApple #VintageMac #PocketCHIP #MiniVMac #SoftPC #Windows31

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #vintageapple #vintagemac #pocketchip #minivmac

paulrickards @[email protected] · 2023-06-22 · 23:07 UTC

Ha you thought I was done with this silly PocketCHIP? 😅 Let’s run SoftPC!

#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #VintageApple #VintageMac #PocketCHIP #MiniVMac

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #vintageapple #vintagemac #pocketchip #minivmac

Denman Rooke @[email protected] · 2023-06-07 · 22:55 UTC

I really enjoy tinkering with my pocketCHIP, but I am not familiar with Linux. Definitely feel way over my technical head a lot of the time, but it's still fun nonetheless. I'll get these gamepads working eventually! #pocketchip #pico8

#pico8 #pocketchip

Denman Rooke 🇵🇸 @[email protected] · 2023-06-04 · 16:33 UTC

Anyone in the Galway area have an old CRT they don't use anymore & don't mind getting rid of?

Looking to get one to plug my CHIP computer into. I did a game jam with PICO-8 on the pocketCHIP setup before but would love a little retro style setup with a CRT & gamepad.

#pico8 #pocketchip #gamedev #galway

Spike :donor: @[email protected] · 2023-06-03 · 18:45 UTC

Following the helpful instructions (https://biosrhythm.com/?p=2688) and copy of the Mini vMac emulator provided by @paulrickards I've now got a #MacOS #emulator running on my Pocket CHiP computer.