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1386 points BogdanTheGeek | 1 comments | 15 Sep 25 17:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source

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SXX ◴[15 Sep 25 15:17 UTC] No.45250676[source]▶

Talking of cheap and powerful devices one can also look at Chinese UZ801 4G LTE (Qualcomm MSM8916) dongles. They cost like only $4-5 and pack quite impressive HW: 4GB eMMC, 512MB RAM, actual 4G modem sometimes with 2 sim switching support. Since it's actually old Android SOC there is even GPU and GPS in there. And a lot of work was already done on supporting them:

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Zhihe_series_LTE_dongles_...

https://github.com/OpenStick/OpenStick

So yeah if you looking for hardware platform for weird homelab projects that's can be it.

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1. sandreas ◴[15 Sep 25 17:07 UTC] No.45252249[source]▶

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My biggest Problem with these devices is

a.) the world of electronics is moving too fast

b.) My lack of skills and time to build something really cool with something like this

A while ago i bought a licheerv nano (similar to luckfox pico or Milk-v duo) to build an open source iPod nano via usb-c audio Jack and the open source buildroot for the licheerv nano.

I did not find a suitable 2.4 inch or at least < 3"touch display that worked with the integrated MPI port.

With LVGL it should be doable to build a small portable audioplayer with acceptable features... But not for me :-)

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