[HN Gopher] Lisp Badge LE
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       Lisp Badge LE
        
       Author : rcarmo
       Score  : 244 points
       Date   : 2023-09-27 22:27 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | anonzzzies wrote:
       | Wish someone would build this in a casing etc : especially the 40
       | hour our on a coin cell. 3d printed should work, but I don't have
       | time and would just like to buy it complete.
        
       | hwestiii wrote:
       | I love this guy. I ran across him trying to self teach about
       | embedded electronics and his site is one of the best I've found
       | both for interesting projects and good instructional examples.
        
         | lioeters wrote:
         | I love his projects too. He's also the creator of uLisp. (If it
         | weren't clear from the article.)
         | 
         | http://www.ulisp.com/
        
       | gleenn wrote:
       | This is a really cool project. I wish I was better at doing
       | electronics construction, wish I could just buy one too. 40 hours
       | of life on a coin battery is pretty impressive.
        
         | staypufd wrote:
         | You can buy one. The link is at the bottom of the article.
        
           | anonzzzies wrote:
           | Looks like that's only the pcb though? Or am I clicking the
           | wrong link?
        
             | wslh wrote:
             | I am also curious about having an assembled one.
        
       | LispSporks22 wrote:
       | I've used uLisp via the serial port. In that mode of provides a
       | cool structured Lisp editor (easily navigate sexps). I wonder if
       | the display one here does the same thing.
        
       | dudus wrote:
       | "The connection to www.technoblogy.com is not secure You are
       | seeing this warning because this site does not support HTTPS.
       | Learn more"
       | 
       | It's 2023 people. How can you justify no https on a technology
       | blog?
        
         | worthless-trash wrote:
         | Easy, the owner doesn't care about the data served from their
         | source gets MITM'ed.
        
       | dannyobrien wrote:
       | ulisp is great - I have it running on a little neopixel matrix I
       | use to flag when I'm on video:
       | https://github.com/dannyob/signpost
       | 
       | I'm ashamed of how much power that sucks down compared to this
       | badge though!
        
       | incanus77 wrote:
       | This guy's projects are a fave of mine, especially the tiny
       | computers like this and the audio projects. And the tiny
       | photography is great!
        
       | randomcarbloke wrote:
       | Dammit I haven't finished populating the last lisp badge.
        
       | captn3m0 wrote:
       | I'd love if old Blackberry shells became standard casing for such
       | projects. Perfect keyboard, good display size.
        
         | eimrine wrote:
         | Blackberry-compatible motherboard with appropriate keys and
         | nothing more may be done relatively easy, but where to get
         | drivers for the display and the sensor joystick?
        
           | numpad0 wrote:
           | Display and joystick goes on the PCB anyway. Just use what
           | works. Bigger problem is BlackBerry, or anyone to be in their
           | position, won't like that being done at scale.
        
             | eimrine wrote:
             | Display and multitouch definitely has to be reused, it is
             | almost retina on later models.
        
       | onemoresoop wrote:
       | I'd totally buy a fully assembled one but I wonder how much it
       | would go for.
        
         | freilanzer wrote:
         | Same.
        
         | thsksbd wrote:
         | For the kids its be great
        
       | zubairq wrote:
       | This is really awesome. Kind of like a programmable calculator
       | but super powerful that you can take anywhere!
        
       | tyingq wrote:
       | First thing I looked for was dedicated parentheses keys, was not
       | disappointed.
        
         | otikik wrote:
         | Probably should have put them on the center of the keyboard,
         | though :)
        
           | msk-lywenn wrote:
           | Or in the back or top, like gamepad triggers/bumpers!
        
         | Horffupolde wrote:
         | Should have a spare set.
        
         | scns wrote:
         | https://neo-layout.org/ has em under your strongest fingers,
         | after holding down a modkey.
        
       | roydivision wrote:
       | Arg, I'd love one of these, but my project backlog has backlogs.
       | As others have commented, I'd buy a fully assembled unit.
        
       | pjmlp wrote:
       | Quite cool, specially how the keyboard and special symbols being
       | taken care of.
        
       | smegsicle wrote:
       | i love the full keyboard- any time someone says they wouldn't
       | benefit from learning vi bindings because they 'spend more time
       | thinking than typing' i hand them one of these
        
         | herewulf wrote:
         | Vi bindings come surprisingly in handy while typing in the
         | terminal on my smartphone even.
        
           | capableweb wrote:
           | Yeah, surprised me as well when I was trying different ways
           | of editing text and sometimes code via touch keyboard, vim
           | bindings was the easiest way by far.
        
       | mkreis wrote:
       | 40 hours with a coin battery is impressive, but I think it is a
       | bad decision in terms of environmental friendliness.
        
         | herewulf wrote:
         | Indeed. Are there rechargeable coin cells?
        
           | anonzzzies wrote:
           | Yes, look for LIR2032 batteries.
        
         | guenthert wrote:
         | "The Lisp Badge LE draws only 6mA from its CR2032 button cell,
         | and so should have a life of about 40 hours"
         | 
         | I suppose that's 6mA when the CPU (MCU here) is active. In idle
         | mode that ought to be much lower (the low power monochrome
         | display, not eInk, draws only 30uA as stated separately). Does
         | uLisp support idle mode? Uh, apparently not automatically, but
         | requires the user to call a SLEEP function ...
        
       | thsksbd wrote:
       | I'd love to buy this for my 8 year old - this week I taught her
       | how to check her homework on elisp. The idea is to familiarize
       | her with lisp syntax a bit to prime her for programing in the
       | future.
       | 
       | I was between calc (RPN) or lisp (elisp) for their simple syntax.
       | The way I see it LISP's REPL loop is simple enough to teach a
       | kid. And I may be right: after teaching her to verify a two
       | argument operation she got a three argument question. She did:
       | 
       | (+ 12 43 67)
       | 
       | :)
        
         | rnk wrote:
         | You can order one through a link on that site, can it be only
         | $23? That's what pcbway.com says. I need a more turnkey
         | approach, someone tell me what to do to get a working board I
         | can just plug in an use. If you ask for "assembly" then it was
         | adding almost $100.
        
           | thsksbd wrote:
           | Thats just the board, I think
        
             | rnk wrote:
             | because of the display and low power use, I'd pay somewhere
             | between 75 and $100 for one of them in a plastic case with
             | some easy power supply/connection like maybe a usb plug-in
             | port?
             | 
             | It's such a cool display and keyboard. Another cool thing
             | (that I'd pay for!) is to attach that to a rasberry pi.
        
               | jhvkjhk wrote:
               | May I ask what's the point of attaching a standalone
               | computer to a raspberry pi?
        
       | matheusmoreira wrote:
       | This is way too cool.
        
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