[NTLK] Einstein & Pi Zero

[Morgan Aldridge]

I believe Steven Frank has been trying to get Einstein operational on RPi,
but it's not quite working yet.

Elias, I still like your original concept. I forget, did you have it
running on a BeagleBone at first? I think it'd be great to make "bridge"
boxes like that (with serial, Bluetooth, and WiFi, plus an HTTPS-stripping
proxy, telnet, VNC, etc) and see use for it beyond the Newton platform
(Classic Macs, Amiga, etc.)

Is your reboot intended to run Einstein?

Morgan

On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 07:29 Elias Basse <kd5jfe at gmail.com> wrote:

> This sounds almost like a continuation of another project that I was
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> working on to get a modern browser to the newt.  I was able to use an rpi
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> to serve as a vnc server on the network, thus allowing me to access it from
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> the newt but ran into a bandwidth bottleneck.
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> With einstein running on the same machine it removed said bottleneck and
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> made things snappy and responsive.
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> Einstein can run fully on a pi, with more overclocking, add in higher
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> resolution screens which einstein can scale to, and a fully working
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> prototype can exist.
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> With the advent of 3d printers, we can make the newton live on thinner case
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> hardware (I like the screen size though). Custom boot screen for rpi can be
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> made to simulate a newton boot and give it a better feel.  The biggest
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> issue with new hardware is that it is way more power hungry, and would be
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> equivalent to charge every other day or every day to use.
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> I am relaunching my pi project to tune a few things but this may be a good
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> adaptation to do this in the new image. The first pi image that was made
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> never completely released to the public due to website issues.
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> I have a design in my head using off the shelf components, and even a
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> charge circuit using usb with a lipo that could fit in a traditional newton
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> case.  With some work, it could fit in a custom printed enclosure made to
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> look like a "new newton".
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> Best Regards,
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> Elias Basse
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