I built my own before getting a freewrite traveler, so it’s nice to see people making them easier for others!
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Nerd, programmer, writer. I like making things!
I built my own before getting a freewrite traveler, so it’s nice to see people making them easier for others!
Sounds like it hasn’t had any updates in half a year (with the last major version over 5 years ago) and they’re now using their own runtime that’s included in .NET. Wine already had their own fork, so what is there to maintain?
Oh I think those are still around, usually chromebooks. As long as you set your expectations to the price point they can work,but that’s not really who this is targeted for
That’s why I like my Traveler! But the eink screen looks great at an angle so it’s not usually much of a problem once you get used to it.
Compared to the AlphaSmart? Their last model launched at over $400 if you adjust for inflation, the only reason they’re cheap now is that schools bought them en masse to teach typing. Niche writing tools are unfortunately expensive unless economies of scale get involved
Over $1200 in today’s dollars!
It is! AlphaSmart went under a while ago so the only models available are used. Astrohaus made their own version too, but it’s about as expensive ad their other products so I’m looking forward to this.
LOL at least you can get your own fancy keycap set 😅 I wonder if the launch versions will offer labels
It’s an alternate to Astrohaus’s Freewrite, should be a bit more competitively priced! Source code isn’t available yet but it’s running an ESP32 so that’s pretty cool (the original version used a raspi zero)
until recently
TIL 600 years ago is recent!
They didn’t just ask the dev to change it, they submitted a pr that would’ve fixed it. All the maintainer had to do is click merge
The maintainer was the one that brought politics into it!
Yeah my bad, it would still require the java dev to leave the keys out
That’s what undefined is for
This is so cool! I’ve seen a few of these writerdecks lately and love the trend, especially with the planck layout
That cloning scandal was crazy! If anyone wants a decent doc series with fancy editing:
I browsed reddit the same way, I’m probably not gonna change. It’s just easier to filter the firehose than make my own from scratch
Good taste,
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is obviously superior