Funded within 5 minutes, soulscircuit are clearly onto a winner here with their upcoming Pilet open source modular mini computers powered by the Raspberry Pi 5.
  • vomitaur@slrpnk.netEnglish
    9·
    7 hours ago

    funded quick because of an absurdly low funding goal coupled with a high entry price point, and somewhat deceptive marketing.

    • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      Goal: 20k CAD

      Lowest reward thingy: 289 CAD

      They only needed 70 people interested. Still surpassed over 1k supporters, so not too shabby.

  • callmepk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    351·
    11 hours ago

    The emotional part of me yells “shut up and take my money”, but the rational part of me tells me that it will be another useless piece of junk on my shelf

    • Thorry84@feddit.nlEnglish
      8·
      10 hours ago

      Yeah I’ve seen this thing before and think it’s a neat design but not really worth funding tbh. In the end it’s just a Pi with a screen too small to be useful and a keyboard that would be terrible to use. Do we really need to fund more plastic crap? They could just put the designs online so people can 3D print them themselves, and put it on a service like pcbway for people that want a high quality version. People already do that all the time.

      If they would design an interface for it as well, that would be really cool. Then it could be a useful thing definitely worth funding. But with a vanilla Pi Linux the user experience would be terrible.

      • LucidNightmare@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        Do we really need to fund more plastic crap?

        I feel this way every time something is made like this. Like, you’re not reinventing the wheel in any meaningful way. Is it cool? Of course! Is is something that makes the task easier and/or better? No, not really.

  • Dezzorian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    8 hours ago

    This looks like a copy paste from clockwork with their DevTerm and uConsole. I have a uConsole and really like it. Despite that it had a small year needed to ship it. It is now running stock Debian Bookworm and the community is growing. Its running on a CM4 and CM5 is almost done as well thanks to a very active community user. Software support is shit, but the hardware and software are open source so there are already a couple. Of expansion boards (4G, GPIO, USB hub, Pico2040, and GPS/LoRa in the making)

  • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
    61·
    14 hours ago

    Powered by Raspberry Pi 5

    Also…

    The Raspberry Pi 5 board is not included in this kit.

    • S2K@lemmy.todayEnglish
      18·
      14 hours ago

      Yeah, wish they were a bit more upfront about that. In their defense it is in the FAQ and somewhere at the bottom of the “about this project” page. Battery is also an add on unless you want to source your own.

  • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
    271·
    14 hours ago

    This is cool but it tries to be two things and doesn’t look great at either.

    There are Pi Laptop cases that are more practical and aren’t as risky as a Kickstarter.

    And there’s plenty of (dramatically cheaper) Linux retro styled pocket games out there.

    • spongebue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      13 hours ago

      Touchscreens have their place (and are overused in places like cars, to be sure) but their emergence combined with a minimalist trend sure has made things boring.