I think the secret-sauce is going to be having multiple SBCs operating while I am carrying them and have only the screen easily accessible. The screen lets you toggle between three inputs, so I could be actively using 3 low power sbcs while walking, and periodically check in on each of them from the one portable screen.
One or more chargers also seems more dynamic than a laptop battery.
@ramin_hal9001
Tomorrow. It's actually one of those unreasonably big and hot sbcs. I'll get smaller auxilliary ones. The display has one of those foldy magnetic stands, though I haven't found a configuration that actually holds up the display properly yet.
@moses_izumi
#2026 Travel #sbc
Sorry about the blurry photo!
Some of the kinks are that the palmshell sbc's usb-c is "power only", so I need the hdmi as well. Then, the charger only has one powerful output, so the charger goes into the screen, and screen plugs into the sbc's power.
Perhaps there is a better configuration.
Only FreeBSD has an "expect bugs" driver for the wifi device, so linux currently.
I think the secret-sauce is going to be having multiple SBCs operating while I am carrying them and have only the screen easily accessible. The screen lets you toggle between three inputs, so I could be actively using 3 low power sbcs while walking, and periodically check in on each of them from the one portable screen.
One or more chargers also seems more dynamic than a laptop battery.
@screwlisp very nice! What model display is that? I may want one for myself!
I am actually considering getting a second “backup” #Fairphone so that I can leave alone my daily-driver cell phone, and play around with various mobile operating systems on the backup Fairphone. But I would love to have a mobile display and keyboard to use with it, and there is a question of whether the Fairphone can support HDMI video over USB.
@ramin_hal9001 I have tested this once with my Fairphone 4 (running /e/OS): I connected it to the docking station of my Dell laptop, which in turn had a screen connected by HDMI. Worked fine. I got a blown-up mirror of the internal display. I don't know if other (higher) resolutions are somehow possible.
