The amazing BeeperBerry that I use totally incorrectly.

[jonw]

I was chatting with someone today and mentioned that one of my home lab tools is a “BeeperBerry”. I’m not sure how many people know what that is, but essentially it’s a little Linux SOC with a Blackberry keyboard.

It was originally developed for Beeper which is a unified messaging system, but that is not very interesting to me so I use it as a pocket computer.

It doesn’t have cellular so I plan to get a USB dongle for that one day, but it has wifi so that’s good enough these days. Even my iPhone can make a hot spot for it if I’m not within wifi range.

The case was 3D printed for me by a friend. It’s not perfect but it’s hella better than wandering around with a bare SOC and battery dangling off it.

Comments

[susandennis]

VERY cool

[ganimede]

That is very cool. I love that Linux can be put on the most random things.

[jonw]

I read a post somewhere where a guy got Linux running in the Linux kernel. So...like...Linux running on Linux. I mean...neat but wtf. Go outside lol