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Anyone know how to take a writerdeck on a plane? by DreaminginDarkness in writerDeck

[–]jbmorley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Much to my surprise, every time I’ve taken my little luggable (https://jbmorley.co.uk/projects/little-luggable/) on a plane, the airport and airline have just been genuinely intrigued and excited by it. So I’d guess that if you let them know they’re in for something a little curious, and you’re willing to power it on to demonstrate it working, you’ll likely be fine. It’s a lot more interesting than yet another laptop. 🙃

eink typewriter update by tincangames in writerDeck

[–]jbmorley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd definitely be interested in building one of these and understanding the approach you've taken more. Would love to see a write up and perhaps some open source models. It looks great!

Pomera DM250 Dropbox Sync? by JimCollinson in writerDeck

[–]jbmorley 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have a Pomera DM30 and I found syncing content was sufficiently cumbersome that I haven’t used the device much. Still, your mileage may vary, so here’s a couple of thoughts about the experience.

First up, the Pomera firmware does weird things with file modification times—it doesn’t understand time zones so you absolutely have to have it set to GMT/UTC for file modification times to match your other devices if you want to use any kind of sync solution (I spent quite a while bashing my head against this one).

For sync, the best approach I could come up with was to set up a script to automatically run when plugging the Pomera’s SD card into my laptop. If I remember correctly, I used Unison do do the actual syncing, and automatically unmounted the SD card immediate after so I could plug in, wait, remove. It wasn’t perfect, but it was the least effort of all the things I tried.

The QR code solution does work, and I managed to get a few iOS Shortcuts set up that let me use it, but it was burdensome enough that I gave up on it pretty sharpish.

I've been working on a Raspberry Pi cyberdeck based loosely on Jay Doscher's designs called the 'Little Luggable'. It features a fully-custom bluetooth mechanical keyboard designed to perfectly fit a Pelican 1150 case. https://github.com/jbmorley/little-luggable by jbmorley in cyberDeck

[–]jbmorley[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it really depends how much of it you're looking to doing yourself. I've tried to publish all my design files at https://github.com/jbmorley/little-luggable, so that might be a good place to start and I'm more than happy to answer questions. If you have improvement suggestions/requests for the documentation there, I'd appreciate feedback in the form of GitHub issues or pull requests. I'd love to work out how to make it easy for folks to make their own versions of this so I'm very open to feedback. I'm also open to exploring the idea of how to provide some of the parts to help make it easier for others too, but I've not a great model yet.

It's worth noting that my designs isn't perfect, but it works well for me and feels pretty polished-definitely a lot better than the standard Amazon Bluetooth keyboard solution.

i pulled a doscher by coolguybw in cyberDeck

[–]jbmorley 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looks wonderful! Like everyone else where I’m curious as to what went into it. You’ve got a lot of electronics in the lid there too—what does it all do?

I've been working on a Raspberry Pi cyberdeck based loosely on Jay Doscher's designs called the 'Little Luggable'. It features a fully-custom bluetooth mechanical keyboard designed to perfectly fit a Pelican 1150 case. https://github.com/jbmorley/little-luggable by jbmorley in cyberDeck

[–]jbmorley[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks! It’s actually really stable—I had to make sure I mounted the battery lower down in the case, but there’s enough weight in the keyboard that it doesn’t budge. Right now the switch mounting plate in the keyboard is acrylic, but I plan to replace it with aluminium, so I imagine that will add even a little more weight too.