/cyb/ - cyberpunk and cybersecurity

OsmocommBB-compatible phones are your choice. Or maybe you are interested in J2ME or Symbian programs?

maybe you can look into making a real life portable navi? :D https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/piphone-home-made-raspberry-pi-smartphone/

>>2345
That's not such a bad idea. Got the hardware list and some lads and i started designing it. Might actually have a Portable Navi prop soon.

I still just use a laptop for most of my purposes. For phones I have a falling apart dumbphone with an homebrewed external battery. Smartphones have always struck me as more trouble than they're worth, imho.

>>2369
have you made any progress, alice? this sounds interesting

>>2823
I'm also interested in this.
>cyberbump

>>2345
We’ve been working on one https://github.com/thearkadia/The_Ark/blob/master/README.md

>>2823
>>2825
I was planning to get it done as a project with the design technology department at collage so they could help me with ordering parts and 3d printing a case, but the year ended before i got to do it. I will have to resume the plans soon on my own.

>>2941
could you fill us in on what hardware your looking to using? Maybe we can help

I like how the Rockbox project makes that alternative open source firmware that you can flash over the stock firmware in couple models of those old portable mp3 players, and you gets loads of new features. The same thing for old mobile phones would be seriously cool stuff.

>>2953
I looked at getting a raspberry pi zero w but i feel i should look for something with more power in about the same size. Im not sure how i will fit the heatsink in there. Charging and battery shouldnt be hard to deal with. I thought that i could use the spaces where the ribbon cables plug in the Lain's modified Navi for usb ports. The second screen will probably be a solar pannel with a transparent touch pad over it. Wont get much power from that but i could be using it to power some led whenever the screen opens. Lain's modified Navi has an exterior antenna which ill probably add for a boost in wifi range. Or it could be a radio tuner module. Or maybe even both, having them be interchangeable. For charging it will hopefully use usb C and it will have a headphone jack at the bottom. Stylus will probably be something like one from a 3DS which will have its own place where to be inserted in the phone. It will be pretty bulky but so was the Lain's. For the software i really dont know. I'll probably need to learn to code and make my own UI for the thing on top of debian or some soykaf. Shouldnt be hard but ive got to get myself together and actually start working on it. I had a friend who was doing the 3D modeling for it and the end product looked pretty good. Once collage starts again he'll 3D print it.

>>3078
I run a full sized RPi without a heatsync, and I've seen them used without way more often than with. Why do you think you need one?

>>3078
Unless you're just wanting to game on something that looks like a glorified digivice (which with a touchscreen, should be out of the question) you really won't need anything more powerful than the zero. If you're wanting to stuff a GSM board and other related components in there, the zero will most certainly be able to handle that as well. We've gotten to the point with our computers that the only reason you would need a CPU faster than budget hardware is if you want to play modern games or you're doing super sciency Big Data™ things. Unless that applies to you, any of the Pis should be fine.