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vnprc | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 What are we looking at?
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lightningspore | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Seedsigner without raspberry pi
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vnprc | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Nice! What board are you using? Are you working on a new hardware platform or just playing around? I think the next phase of SS evolution is to move to more generic and simplified hardware.
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lightningspore | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 I would like to think I am working on a new hardware platform. I have been scanning the landscape of microcontrollers/embedded Linux devices for a number of years before discovering this particular device:

Luckfox Pico Pro Max

Benefits:
Runs Linux -> porting seedsigner code is significantly easier than a true microcontroller. No micropython needed.

No onboard WiFi -> for whatever reason all alternative embedded Linux boards all include WiFi. This was a really difficult obstacle actually. 

Ample memory -> can run Pillow, etc. the code is 99.1% the same!

Camera header -> similarly to the Rpi this board has a CSI camera header

Not a raspberry pi -> an answer to the loudest FUD

Not a microcontroller -> while I support enabling new hardware platforms, I think seedsigner is best if we coalesce around “Linux”. The effort needed to port to micropython is unnecessary. There already exists Krux. Play to our strengths.