This is a product that didn’t need to be built. Since it has, I’m at least pleased there are efforts to keep them from being relegated to landfills.
Agreed. At least there are efforts to salvage it.
Imagine having a thing like that but with a touch screen. Like, a rectangular assistant you can always carry with you! Oh, wait…
But why
Why not?
It sounds like they’re trying to do whatever they can to replicate the previous functionality, but without the company who made it getting in the way, the hardware itself is kind of interesting. I hear the battery life sucks and nothing on it is exactly novel, but I’d be interested to see what people could do with it’s fancy display options combined with everything else.
Why would anyone need to run Doom on medical equipment?
i thought this thing has serious production issues… like battery problems that might not be solved by open source software
HP shut it down, so it’s effectively a paperweight or trash otherwise. Judging by the image of it sitting on a desk in a 3D printed enclosure, I’d say they’re probably not using it for its original purpose anyway. Pretty easy to solder in a bigger battery if you’re not trying to walk around with it.
The only catch? You’ll need an interposer to set up an Ai Pin for use with OpenPin. You can either buy one or make your own.
Even more junk for landfill, to salvage a device that is inherently quite useless. It’s good to keep the original hardware running but it’s a shame this requires more hardware.
