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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.