HPR3646: arm, slackware, forth oh my!

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pi-top the company

• make educational products using the rasp-pi
• uk based company 24 million $ funding 3 employees
• products
  • pitop ceed
  • pitop 2 laptop
  • pitop 3 laptop
  • pitop 4 case+ for rpi4
  • robot kit, etc

my pi-top 3

• had a pi-top 2, keyboard was bad, battery was worse
• ebay purchase pi-top 3, wanted to try new form factor and see if the battery was better
• came with experimentor kit, included a slide in solderless breadboard, and an rpi!
• description
• modifications
  • slackware install,lost some of the built in scripts that monitored the system, especially battery monitoring
  • added a daughter board with an atmega328 running forth to do the battery monitoring
  • added an rtc ds1307, installed via instructions from the sarpi website
• pluses
  • better keyboard, with better mechanical design
  • better battery life, charging great
  • better screen
• minuses
  • charging board seems closed source, that would be the keys to the kingdom
  • old software hard to come by
  • stuck in rpi3 form factor
• plans
  • +upgrade to slackware 15-64 bit+
  • leave the rpi and go to a pineboard
  • reverse engineer charging board?
  • easier to modify case to accept new hardware

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