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This is my wip, a mechanical keyboard with a boox tablet, running android, (termux, fdroid, meshtastic, uxn, lagrange, koreader) with a LoRa Radio connecting trough bluetooth. I haven't had a change to really get this device on the LoRa network as there are no mesh around here. This is the next development needed.
Jun 07 · 6 months ago · 👍 BBSman, mimas2AC, Geer3The, bobbert · 🔥 2
That is super hot! Very nice work!
🤖 BBSman · 2024-06-08 at 01:45:
Bluetooth keyboard?
👺 daruma [OP] · 2024-06-08 at 02:17:
I went with a cabled keyboard, I feel like the speed, and the battery managment is less if I don't run all these battery powered device. I've used a flat cable to tuck in nicely in the casing too.
🚀 mimas2AC · 2024-06-08 at 07:26:
Looks pretty cool. How much do the components cost? Which boox tablet is that? Regards
👺 daruma [OP] · 2024-06-08 at 19:58:
@mimas2AC my BOM with appx price in CAD
- Boox Poke 3 (250$)
- Mech keyboard with swapable switches (50$)
- Battery pack (40$)
- LoRa WAN with Antenna (35$)
- USB C right angle flat cable (10$)
- USB right angle adaptor (10$)
- Logitech Keyboard soft Case (20$)
I already had a flat battery pack, and I found the keyboard soft case in a garage sale (for 25Cents). Also keep in mind you can use any newer ebook with USB C to connect to the wired keyboard. The flat cable is only used to minimize the ammount of wires floating around. For some reason the usb C to usb C able doesn't work for the kerboard + tablet.
this is great! I have also set up my boox ereader with a keyboard and termux for command line work. what do you use uxn for?
👺 daruma [OP] · Nov 17 at 04:53:
uxn is mostly for fun. I really like dev and rek from hundred rabbits and I try to install uxn on all my platform. Maybe one day I'll code for it, but for now ot more for entertainment .
