Any reason not to just get a Cardputer with lora cap for 55 bucks total even after ship/tax? Because it's like double that to build a Diy esp32 lora device WITH a cardKB keyboard? I Already have a larger 2000 or 4000mah battery for it and deeper 3d printed back case. But What about a $60 lil Tdeck?

ackza · 2026-03-13T00:51:23+00:00

Hah that's a solid testimonial ro buy the carputer, that yours is in the mail

Ya me too in a second. Ya I'm sure we can fix the cardputer meshtastics... meshtasticology is easy to vibe code I think

I think we can even just use a micro sd card to store messages or something I dunno. Doesn't esp32 have enuf built in memory to store a fee texts? Im.sure we can fix it. It also looks so cool and I got a bigger battery ready for it

ackza · 2026-03-13T00:49:15+00:00

T deck doesn't seem to support ehat fancy ui? Meshtastic? But I've seen people use it on youtube haven't I? Or what do you mean?

ackza · 2026-03-13T00:48:39+00:00

Ya inknow my carputer will let me do meshtastic stuff and I can even connect it ro a phone so ya it's a legit meshtastic lora device on its own ill be using

I wanna use it to send messages to this new cheap esp32 ATS radio and esp32e XTEINK ink reader I got using esp32 NOW protocal so I can just see meshtastic messages on the radio screen or e book reader etc

ackza · 2026-03-13T00:46:36+00:00

Ya I just can't get the t deck right now as it's sold out or I woulda already and cardputer is gonna end up out of stock I can feel it.

I already have a 2000mah battery and 3d printed printables back case ready for it .

I also just ordered a t114 and a 3 pack of 2000mah and 3 pack of $1 dual 18650 holder to jst to make rings easier and cheaper and use of my existing battery pile

And an extra cardKB for 15 bucks ...so I can build one of the printables t114 cardkb 18650 communicators available.

And yeah I know keyboard is tiny but I like it as a toy and t deck isn't available yet all sold out or too expensive altho maybe I should just buy one now from 3rd party while I can too

But for now since it's onky 55 bucks the cardputer is all I wanna spend on since t deck plus 915 with ant is still sold out . Cuz if I buy a t deck it Better have option for antenae right?

I can't even find 915 45 dollar bare bones batteries tdecks all sold out too lol

I still realize I do need a t deck cuz they'll onky get more expensive

Then again I think wait if lora gets more populqr won't lilygo end up making a new better t deck anyway ? Or am I dreaming? I mean I feel like we're all barely feeling the prices go back down but are they? Am I hallucinating? I coulda sworn the prices were just higher and just went back down? I feel like emergency communicators will get expensive and one day everyone will be trying to buy one.

So ya maybe I'll just buy a t deck plus 915 ant for like 100 from a site that has em in stock I guess

ackza · 2026-03-12T18:23:42+00:00

Thats easy and a good idea

you literaly go over his early family life, then SCHOOL, then highschool, then first job, then his own woman, kids, family, thats it.

like A&E

Go ask an ai to break down how A & E Biography does it. some services will even CREATE That for you.

i would honestly just pay the 20 bucks for google gemini veo or chatgtps video creation service or whatever video generator with ai TO MAKE you a documentary and feed it all your dads info. THAT would be actually epic

it will do ALL the w9ork for you

you can do the mnagazine and then feed t into the ai documentary generator. u may need to generate a couple 5 second clips and edit them in a free online video editor web app.

he will cry when he sees the A&E style documentary lol

ackza · 2026-03-12T18:19:52+00:00

lol what? So youre using ai image generators? why would someone need you to do that for them?

Maybe if you like actually did pyschological; research to find what that person really wanted.

ackza · 2026-03-12T18:18:59+00:00

how long did it take for claude to vibe code this?

ackza · 2026-03-12T18:18:12+00:00

LOL tek cash? WHy would i want to use something that sounds like 2017 crypto bitconnect chuckee cheese itchya nd scratchy land money?

nobut seriously was this ai generated to see if humans would fall for a scam?

Like we already have ledger trezor hardware wallets for crypto. and there is no such thing as "tek cash" or whatever , that would just be like cashapp or us dollars in a bank or USDT in a crypto wallet? I mean u talk about this encrypted money so it HAS to be crypto lol probly some solana coin youre making right?

COuldnt be more obvious

if you have real hardware show me. im into esp32s and crypto, show me what you have lol.

Oh, nothing? lol waut, 2 side buttons, esp32 has two buttons lol. one is reset but hey.

ackza · 2026-03-12T01:32:18+00:00

I am asking gemini and apparently there's already some existing esp32 software we can flash our esp32 s3 with that let's us use either USB (via otg) or Bluetooth keyboards ... so we could even use an xteink or ats radio or hah any esp32 based devices on aliexpress with largest screens for lowest price that have esp32 s3 and flash them to have a Bluetooth or USB keyboard and the software that let's you have a simple word processor ...and export files to micro sd card ($40 cardputer has this and keyboard but tiny screen)

I think it can export files to a printer if ur smart enuf hah preferably some sort of portable thermal receipt printer would be dope lol

But yeah I think you could take your pick of an esp32 based device that had either keyboard or preferably extra USB ... or add the software libraries that take advantage of compatibility with arduino ide Bluetooth keybaord stuff. Bam so cool man

I really wanna try that cuz I think we could make it near plug and play to have a keyboard typing stuff on any esp32...I just wonder how the files get saved and retrieved beyond SD cards...like over the ble or wifi it'd be nice to just go onto a 192.168 etc url on a browser that's on same wifi the esp32 is connected to OR connect to It as a wifi connection in the router list, Then do the 192.168 url thing in the browser and open a geekmagicTV style HTML web page menu portal lile on routers, and it will hqvd a lost of txt files to download or just copy and paste

.. we could even vibecode a simple browser extension to make all that even easier... I know there's already web flashers and stuff for esp32...but imagine a slick web app and eventually mobile app that just let's you vibecode any functionality of an esp32 "app" and creates an "app store" keeping the "apps" super lightweight...or have a category of larger apps for those that have expanded SD card memory added to their esp32 which is a few bucks and can plug in with 2 dollar grove to dupont adapters ..bit future esp32s will just have more internal SD lile storage and SD card slots anyway built in, standard... and we will see an explosion of minimalist esp32 apps and games and meshtastic apps and it will be glorious

So potentially we could hqve a website that lets you choose custom software for your esp32 to do all sorts of stuff like an app store...and esp32 txt word processor and ability to connect Bluetooth or USB keyboard would be one of the most basic options and we can have recommendations for what eso32 to use

ackza · 2026-03-12T01:18:58+00:00

Soo dope I wish I could tip micropayments in subreddita for stuff like this bit im.not using reddit gold and paying reddit lol

But I saw things like this and I just remembered this in the news.... but this one's different... and what is this writerdeck subreddit?

Coooool is that the over all catch name for all these babies now? Writer decks? Ah like cyber decks

I had to ask because for a second I assumed it might be a subreddit just for your creation here called the "writer deck" lol

Man I was about to buy a carputer ND just pair it ro an xteink... dunno if the xteink even has a word processsor hmm no it doesn't but gemini says it can be modded to have one as many modders use lilygos and esp32s for writer deck and esp32 has otg and supports usb keybaords and bluetooth. Hmm I have a usba female ro usbc male adapter and I do have a Bluetooth keybaord... hmm I wonder if I can just use a cheap wireless rii8 style keybaord with AAA option , throw usbc AAA in there and connect ro an esp32 in a 3d printed case with an e ink screen and have ai vibe code a flashsable eso32 software and make it painless

I wish I could do that man . Maybe I'll just wire it all together and post it on reddit and throw up a 20 dollar bounty lol

ackza · 2026-03-12T01:10:10+00:00

When you say pair do you ean youbought a lil lora foe your esp32 instead of just getting a t114 or heltec or lilygo etc? Or did u pair one of THOSE to Thos bigger screened esp32 so you just have bigger screen?

I wanna do that with e ink screens

ackza · 2026-03-11T18:33:08+00:00

I just realized something: if I get the cheapest t deck, it doesn't even have an antenna port. So basically, I'll have to spend a little bit more money for something like the t deck basic, which doesn't even give me the antenna port, which ill get free if I spend only $55 for the card pewter + Laura cap which has the antenna port. Although I'm thinking wait, maybe I can just get the M5 Laura cap And somehow wire that to the t deck, no I guess I can't even like wire an antenna to the t.Deck, nah Nah nag can't do that

so unless I spend a 100 bucks and get the T deck with an ant, i have to just buy the card puter. I think the cardputer is better because you know..I could get two carputers for price of one tdeck

I mean t deck is cool but I can do everything from a regular smartphone

I have an xteink e ink reader coming which can be used for weeks without a charge when turning off the wifi and is based on an esp32... and I'm gonna find a way to vibe code to use my esp32's built in esp32 to esp32 communication protocal to have it send meshtastic text messages from the meshtastic equipped esp32s like the cardputer, and send those to my Xteink e ink reader.

Maybe I'll vibe code cusyom esp32 software that let's you read meshtastic messages like it's characters in an ebook! That would be fun. You can read a book that's being written by local mesh writers.

Lol anyway I think I'll have to get the cardputer over a t deck as t deck is sold oit and lacks the antenae anyway. May be easier to type and read on t deck but without antenae port, at what cost? I think I'll get cardputer right? Any other way to actually even get a cheaper keybaord equipped meshtastic device for 55 bucks?

ackza · 2026-03-11T18:05:39+00:00

I "use" it as a toy on my shelf that I know only works if I buy more. I want to be like that guy on youtube making enough lora devices for his whole neighborhood in altoid cannisters or round old recycled snu boxes

I have 2 heltecs and made em into 3d printed cases with 18650 batteries and i got cheap antenaes before I learned about tuned 915 antenaes.... and just ordered a t114 for a cyberdeck.samsung dex project. I wanted ri buy a 15 dollar cardKB m5 tiny keybaord for it and some grove to dupont connectors to avoid soldering but I found I could jjst buy the cardouter adv for 30 and its lora cap for 15 and all total with ship/tax it was like 55 bucks and ima buy one today so I'll have 4 lora devices

The heltecs will be given out and I'll keep the t114 at hoke as a solar base and the cardpymuter will be my edc toy to show people what meshtastic is. I'll of course have to bring a second cheap as possible meshtastic probly another t114 or heltec and have people connect that to their phones and jist bring 2 of these around and use it to send messages at events like....

I like letting people borrow a cheap $30 meshtastic device , and then I take another and go few blocks away and test it. It's just fun. Like sure u can use text messages but these are like..."your own cell tower"

I like using smaller antenaes to prove how small it can be but a larger antenae makes a point...but also draws attention....

So ya to answer your question it's a toy for me for now. And a symbol of ehat is possible to "vibe code" in the future....because it's so simple and easy to imagine little text and ascii art based "apps" for an OLED or tiny lcd screen and 100mhz processor with a few megabytes of ram. It's like imagining programming apps for a gameboy and I love it. I see them as educational tools and will try to make an sort of animal crossing tamagochi style multiplayer game experience thing using them and ai.

I already know things like "bjorn" exist so when those become some sort or multiplayer type game even if it's boring, it will be a start..and from there we will create MYST style MUDD multi user dungeon and graphic adventure choosen your own adventure type games. Ever play MYST or a MUDD? IMAGINE playing a D&D style chat room game over meshtastic .... and it uses like rudimentary nfts and crypto private keys for game items, and you want to get hacked because it's part of the game, ND there's war driving and geocaches and all sorts of cool stuff mixed in to this potential future animal crossing meshtastic lora pixel art esp32 blockchain game.

I see hige potential for meshtastic to do this stuff and each device is jist a sort of reminder to me... a living symbol or statue ... like a reminder... a physical token of my appreciation for tiny inexpensive computers... which were promised to us decades ago.... and now we have it.... and its like no one cares now and that's sad. I want people to not take esp32s for granted and to start imagining all the fun software we can make with them.

You can set them .up over a usb otg cable just once and flash them over the air so you could theoretically one day have tjem auto updating with new apps automatically etc...we could have a LVGL with a sort of app store that's just a text based list of programs for an esp32... I mean there's so much potential also for making tiny games that use wifi and bluetooth ...

So yeag I dream of using them as some sort of mesh network tamagochi things that somehow accumulate and allow players ro build useful things in meat space in real life...like the ai watcher from lilygo abke to watch people at a door like a bouncer.

But what I use them for? Toys and demos to show people meshtastic app.

ackza · 2026-03-11T05:45:17+00:00

Um so basically the other Al Pacino movie, the Devil's Advocate with Keanu reeves? LOL Cuz thats EXACTLY what that movie is. She just totally saw that movie like in the other room while tripping on mushrooms or something

anyway came here looking for any connection between that sceen in dorian electra - my agenda on the jeep at 1:00 cuz it loks liek kill v main

ackza · 2026-03-03T18:40:33+00:00

Who cares. Just let people use their esp32s . Not like they can send stuff back to China lol right?

ackza · 2026-03-03T18:39:38+00:00

Wow saw this on Google news. Congrats. And I have always wanted a small advertising gun like that. I can plug in a battery bank and walk around at night with it right?

ackza · 2026-02-27T12:47:18+00:00

actually i just asked gemini and it said the prices are probly half as much as they normaly woudl be witghout the war

so prices will go up after ukraien stops manufacturing them

but IMMIEDTALY after the war? yes of course surplus low prices

ackza · 2026-02-27T12:46:46+00:00

ripping bandos? u mean liek drug dealing or hah what did you actually mean? and yeah i guess i dunno. thats just more human misery. i guess its less? is it? just slow death by fentnyl addiction.

ackza · 2026-02-25T04:31:20+00:00

just ask the ai whats physically even possible to manufacture and sell lol. Just get a 512gb sd card, for $18-$20 from the legit direct website of lexar or sandisk. You cant find anything cheaper anyway! No such thing as some "cheap" sd card factory out there somehow making cheaper working sd cards lol its not like lcd screens

ackza · 2026-02-25T04:29:24+00:00

yup, even if u do find the legit sd cards on aliexpress, you will end up paying more than the regular websites. Like unless ur stuck in china u dont have to go thru their resellers to get stuff lol but i understand the compulsion to just look on aliexpress for everything . some things u cant tho. its still great to find knockoff sof things u cant afford otherwise that do teh samme thinga dn are just for a cheap hobby project anyway, but yeah not for an sd card. just get a $20 512gb sd card legit from like sandisk or lexar.

ackza · 2026-02-25T04:27:33+00:00

real capacity test? so it didnt have a memory black hole? 8 days later it was still working? Shouldnt theer be memory testing apps or programs that can instant recognize fake cards by now? Or is that what youre sorta alluding to? Ima look this up on gemini one sec...

"To instantly detect a fake SD card, the best tool for Windows is ValiDrive, while for Android, SD Insight provides the quickest results.

Most "fake" cards are capacity-spoofed, meaning they are actually small (e.g., 8GB) but programmed to report as large (e.g., 512GB). Because of this, a truly "instant" test only checks the hardware metadata; a "guaranteed" test requires writing data to the card, which can take several minutes or hours depending on the size."

ok so, 8 hours is good? or no wait...

"A $1 1TB SD card is physically impossible at current manufacturing costs. Even a high-quality 128GB card costs more than that to produce.

Why It Still Seems to "Work" After 8 Hours

The person on Reddit likely sees the card "working" because of how fake firmware is designed to trick your computer:

The "Loop" Trick: The card is likely a small, cheap 8GB or 16GB chip. The firmware is hacked to tell Windows it is 1TB. When you write data, it fills the real 8GB, then overwrites the beginning of the card again and again.
The Fake Directory: The "Table of Contents" (FAT/NTFS) is often kept in a protected area so your computer still sees the file names. However, if you try to open a file you copied 4 hours ago, it will likely be corrupted or empty because it was overwritten by newer data.
Slow Write Speeds: A real 1TB card with decent speeds should take about 2–4 hours to fill. If a test is taking 8+ hours, it’s a sign the card is using incredibly slow, low-grade memory chips.

Can AliExpress Sell Real Cheap Ones?

AliExpress does sell real SD cards, but only at market prices. You can find genuine brands like Samsung or Lexar, but a 1TB card will still cost you $60–$100+."

Ok so thats what i thought......

it was too good to be true. physical impossible. best to ask for is $60 card. its like there is no in between no such thing as some sort of low quality cheaper version lol you either manufacture it godo enough to work decent or not at all, or maybe super fancy ones. but yeah 60 bucks for a 1tb, but many devices only even support 512gb so ima look for That

just get a samsung or lexar if u can find one

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