Consolo is a modular cyberdeck with a Raspberry Pi 5 for brains, a 7 inch display and 7 hours of battery life
  • LengAwaits@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Very cool. I want one, of course, but I’m disappointed to see that they’re using an off-the shelf keyboard and just re-housing it with a few extra bells and whistles bolted on. I own the keyboard that they’re ripping the internals from, and let me tell you, it is not great.

    I mean I get why, of course, but it’s too bad.

    Maybe ClockworkPi will release an updated uConsole that can house a Pi5. The uConsole keyboard isn’t the best, but it’s better than the Rii X1 Mini that Consolo looks to be using.

      • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 months ago

        I have some live stream cameras that don’t output to client services on their own. I want a small computer that can switch between them tthrough OBS and output to client services. This would do the job.

  • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    this is really making me not hate my pi5 so much.

    Hope it’ll be available sometime soon as a DIY kit

    • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPM
      1·
      3 months ago

      Why do you hate your Pi 5?

      I haven’t switch to 5 yet, but 4B has worked well as a DIY home server (Pi-hole, NAS, media server etc.).

      • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Intermittent LAN reliability issues which appear to be distro agnostic. LAN often fails after a hot boot, which is not ideal. I’ve spoken to several other users with the same issue but I don’t believe it’s widespread. A portable cyberdeck makes this less of a problem I suppose.

        Aside from this fundamental issue. I intended to buy this as an ultra low power server, only for it to be outclassed in the same power envelope as an older intel skylake-based home server platform (this was honestly quite astonishing, though the server was 2.2x more expensive all in all).

        A minor bonus is that we didn’t have to fiddle with box86/64/fex-emu. Fex-emu and box* are remarkable projects and I don’t mean to hold the arm ISA against the Pi as a negative, but it ended up being much more convenient for our case.

        I’m also kind of fed up waiting for the rest of the board support to be upstreamed but that’s more my fault for being an early-ish adopter.

        • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPM
          2·
          3 months ago

          Too bad about the LAN issue, that does not sound fun.

          Did not know skylake had a home server platform (let alone that it was comparable in power consumption to the Pi).

          Cheers!

          • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            3 months ago

            The one my friend bought is the Fujitsu D958 if you’re interested. I used “skylake” in a sort of dumb (++) way but I believe this is technically using a coffee lake cpu