In the HackberryPi CM5, does that pointing device (which IIUC is repurposed from Blackberry hardware) work like a joystick/TrackPoint?
Can you move smoothly at all angles with it, well enough to use the desktop GUI?
Mogzol 9/10/2025|
Yes. I tried to find a good video showing it, this one from the same creator shows it being used as a mouse and you can see it works pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=568L-P2tBwc
neilv 9/10/2025||
Thanks for finding that. Nice. Starting at 14s in the video, looks like it's doing both coarse and fine movement. I don't know whether it would have to calibrated for best balance on the tiny display, but looks like it will probably work pretty well.
v1ne 9/11/2025||
Something to hack, but I don't see how to easily type braces and parentheses. Looks like a non-starter to me because for me, I hack by writing in languages that require parentheses.
Might be tge pathway to cheap open source cellular service.
rbanffy 9/11/2025||
I want something the size of a TRS-80 Model 100 - something I can type on.
tartoran 9/11/2025|
You may want to look into the clockwork pi's devterm.
rbanffy 9/11/2025||
I find it a bit small.
a012 9/11/2025||
It looks nice and makes me missing the Blackberry keyboard now
0xbadcafebee 9/10/2025|
Fwiw, for other projects you can look at other SoC brands than Raspberry, such as OrangePi, BananaPi, ClockworkPi, KickPi, Pine64, Rock64, Odroid, Libre Computer, Radxa, ArmSom, Onion, Udoo, NVIDIA Jetson, ASUS Tinker, Khadas. I was kinda blown away by how many there are. Ask ChatGPT for specific models and feature comparison.