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Alright, did some moving around, the SymMoDe prototype is now officially practically a handheld. What's left is cable management, a better keyboard setup and sim card handling (which I've been able to order the parts for) to make this a reasonable phone replacement
Screen mount: ✅
Keyboard mount: ✅
The SymMoDe prototype is almost done, I need to futz with the wires in the enclosure to get it to snap shut properly but I'm mostly there
ID: Pixel art of a green girl with blue and white hair
Id like to introduce you all to Symmone, she'll be the icon/character representing Sym(pathetic)Mo(bile)De(vice) (my project to build a cheap and reproducible handheld mobile device out of off the shelf and 3D printable parts). A sympathetic girl for a sympathetic device.
With mobile hardware almost everyone is at the mercy of a few OS projects, I'd love to just run an actual Linux distro on my mobile hardware but you can't really do that. That's why I'm looking at a different way to do things with the SymMoDe project, basing everything around small SBCs capable of running Linux means people can actually control their mobile device.
Where its at: The first hardware prototype for SymMoDe is almost done, a foldable handheld built out of very easy to source and assemble components. Once it's complete I'll write up a guide to assembly and a list of components. It should cost under $120 to assemble.
Note: SymMoDe stands for sympathetic mobile device
ID: A small screen and keyboard on top of a transparent clamshell case containing a battery and an Orange Pi Zero W 2 (a half credit card sized sbc). The device is running WezTerm (a modern terminal emulator) in qTile (a lightweight window manager) on Ubuntu
Running under its own power and enclosed in a smaller box we're getting close to where I want to be faster then expected.
Bad news/good news:
Bad: I cracked the screen I was using in the SymMoDe* prototype so I'll have to get a new one
Good news: the ribbon cable came and gives us enough space to have the handheld closed when not in use
What needs to be done to get the prototype ready: get a new screen, a short micro usb cable and a usb sim card interface. Get some measurements and design a 3D printable bracket for the screen to slide into. Do some software testing.
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*SymMoDe is a project to create a cheap, simple and replicable mobile device so people aren't locked to Android/iOS/etc.
A pure Wayland shell for GNOME on mobile devices. Mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh - agx/phosh
Looking at using this for SymMoDe to get a jump on the mobile interface
Here an example of the resulting interface provided by the repo which seems very promising
Realized I could mount the screen to the enclosure with a smartphone mount I had. I need to get some nuts to get it mounted properly but with this change the screen is foldable, there's more space in the enclosure and there should be enough space to attach the fosmon keyboard.
