Dhruv Gramopadhye
TL;DR: this exists so you can make your early robotics prototype tooling easily field-portable
Finally, you've prototyped your robot, sensor platform, or other outdoor-project. And it's time to go outside to test
You have all the tooling on your laptop - to connect a controller, a radio, and maybe some other peripherals to interact/debug/fly it.
Now you must decide to either:
- Drag a laptop outside with you for something that is otherwise a mundane I/O application
- Cross-compile everything for Android, fight with the permissions system, JNI, NDK, download Android Studio, and all the other foot guns
If only you had a portable platform for quickly running basic scripts + simple UI's, that was easy to obtain, field-ready, and had tactile buttons for when a keyboard or touchscreen isn't what you're.
The rg552 is an ARM-based game console for playing retro games. But retro games are the least interesting use case. It's got:
- several tactile buttons,
- two joysticks
- a touchscreen
- HDMI out
- 4 gigs of RAM
- USB host capability on one port (yes, on nixos it supports hubs)
- 64gb eMMC and two SD card slots
- WiFi
This is the perfect hand-controller for low-stakes hobby robotics and other in-field hobbies that need a head unit to run basic tasks.
And this whole thing costs just 150-200 dollars depending on the vendor. I aint buying a raspberry pi for that price. frankly im surprised they can make any money at that price point
Tom
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