With Flipper One, we're reimagining what a Linux cyberdeck can be — it's a huge project. We're opening up the development process and asking the community for help.
  • f3nyx@lemmy.ml
    24·
    3 days ago

    this is shockingly ambitious from the flipper team. wow.

    I don’t have experience with ARM development, but IMO that seems like the field that would benefit the most from this project. its also where I see the most pushback occurring.

    very happy they’re opening this up. they built a good community with the first flipper, I’m sure there are tons of qualified people willing to contribute to this one.

  • B0rax@feddit.org
    11·
    3 days ago

    Glad to see that is not a „V2“ of the flipper zero, but adresses a different area. It is very ambitious for sure. But they talk about a lot of interesting challenges they are aiming to solve.

    Personally the Linux UI for tiny displays is what intrigues me the most.

  • fl42v@lemmy.ml
    4·
    2 days ago

    Idk about making their own ui framework as if there weren’t 100500 of those already. As for tiny screens, slint comes to mind, for example

    • merc@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      48 minutes ago

      One difference is that Flipper have a track record of actually building and shipping a successful product.

      I’ve followed a lot of similar projects on kickstarter, etc. and a lot of them fail before finally shipping something. There are so many hard parts: international shipping, customs clearance, supply chains, lead times, legal compliance, etc.

      I hope that Mecha Comet works out, it looks really cool. But, I’m definitely not going to pre-order.

      As for how it’s different, it looks like they’re intended for different uses. The Comet looks like it’s intended to be a handheld device you can use for gaming and maybe on-the-go stuff like texting, email, maybe watching media, etc. It has a 40-pin breakout board but you have to remove the keyboard to use it.

      The Flipper One looks more like a portable debugging server. Despite its small size it has 2 ethernet ports and a full size HDMI port. It seems like if you’re holding it in your hand and looking at its tiny screen for any length of time you’re probably not using it the way they expect.