I am the author of PicoCalc. I had no idea anyone had posted it here on HN, that it had so many points and comments, or that anyone still remembers it. Makes my day :)
I see the mention of a version that can run a full Linux distro, and that's been my dream for ages--something this shape and size, but that i can use like a normal (tiny, slow) computer. Hopefully that moves along, or maybe i need to hack my own together with this milk-v board i have laying around
No, i saw a project using a Pico-size Linux board in the picocalc shell, which is exactly what i want it's just early in development. There are several cheap riscV boards now in the pico form factor that can run a full distro
Related PicoCalc: A fully-functional clone of VisiCalc for the PICO-8 (237 points, 2023, 47 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37746663
I am the author of PicoCalc. I had no idea anyone had posted it here on HN, that it had so many points and comments, or that anyone still remembers it. Makes my day :)
Nice, yeah I figured worth another discussion perhaps because the video actually shows a lot of different cool things you can do with it
I am exited whenever I see something with a physical qwerty keyboard.
I could really ditch my smartphone if one of those could run Linux reasonably well.
LilyGo do have the perfect device and keyboard [0] but Linux on the ESP32-S3 is tough.
- [0] https://lilygo.cc/products/t-deck-plus-1
I see the mention of a version that can run a full Linux distro, and that's been my dream for ages--something this shape and size, but that i can use like a normal (tiny, slow) computer. Hopefully that moves along, or maybe i need to hack my own together with this milk-v board i have laying around
I believe the ones able to run Linux are the uConsole serie, which are bigger.
No, i saw a project using a Pico-size Linux board in the picocalc shell, which is exactly what i want it's just early in development. There are several cheap riscV boards now in the pico form factor that can run a full distro