Linux in your pocket / SQFMI Beepy

This is a tiny computer that fits in the palm of your hand. A pocketable cyberdeck. The full power of linux. Hackable. Tactile. Simple. Featuring a very unique reflective memory lcd, a physical keyboard and powered by a Raspberry Pi Zero. This is Beepy by SQFMI. Very useful as a portable pen-testing tool or for SSH'ing in to a server for some quick maintenance. It suffers from one huge flaw though.

0:00 Intro
0:45 What can you do with it?
2:24 The hardware
4:08 Keyboard shortcuts and modifier keys
5:21 The big problem with Beepy
6:16 How to get a Beepy
7:08 Outro

[commtechengineer]

"Smartphones are boring, Beepy is thinking in my head) "I like fun"

[mbunds]

It's nice to see these outfits finding a use for those old Blackberry keyboards.

[jose.inestroza]

Congratulations. What a great video, very well explained, organized. The script is very interesting, well written. The video editing is professional; very striking.

[zajlord]

holy shit, never seen such an effective intro (the music choice was superb)
like i rarely get pulled into the video like this (i was going to just turn it on and off to have it in history for later but after the intro i had to watch it)

[pixpnd]

Informative video, thanks! And sick music in the intro, I like your choice

[HenryKlausEsq.]

You adjusting the light angle to show off the keyboard topology... You're an underrated creator.

[PaulSpades]

My 6 year old Garmin fenix has a colour memory-in-pixel display, and they didn't have any trouble implementing a backlight.

[zushiba]

I was once sitting in a waiting room at a hospital high on pain killers with a killer kidney stone when I got an email about a critical failure of one of my Linux systems. I only had my iPhone on me so I had to set up a VPN connection & figure out how to SSH into the system to find out what was wrong. Turns out the system had run out of space due to a log not being truncated. I cleared the log and restarted the services.
Still, this would have been so much nicer to use.

[FullDuplx]

Subscribed. Great video, great music. Well written script!

[nosuchthing]

Love the way you channel Deter from Sprockets!!!

[Anatoli-y]

Nice LG TV on background.. love it
Remembering me of childhood, when i used it with ps1

[fabs]

I know I would have to resist to buy a device like this one because I already know I would stop using it after a few weeks but I love the nostalgia vibe it brings to me when I was discovering Linux (2.0 at that time I think). Maybe it's due to the colorless terminal or the simplicity of the device :)

[ThomSonnyYeah]

I have the colour version you mentioned at the end of the video. I highly recommend it.

[MyTubeUtoo]

A very cool device. Exactly the kind of thing I seem to collect. I'd definitely go for the color screen version, and it seems as though it may be worthwhile to have a slightly thicker case that allows for a higher capacity battery. I have a Lilygo 'T-Deck' and with a reasonably sized case, and having to move the internal speaker, I was able to squeeze an 8, 000 mAh battery into it. Which lasts for a *very* long time.

Thanks for the video.

[goiterlanternbase]

4:30 A backlit keyboard, but not a single light source for the display🤣👍

[iblackfeathers]

i was on the mailing list for over a year and a few months & still no developments. someday hopefully there will be an acceptable linux pocket terminal.

[mr_mr]

The color one looks pretty cool. Hope it starts to ship

[korzeTV]

bro this is a fucking video. good damn job! I love your style here!

[zajlord]

if ppl are interested in this they might find termux interesting too. its the same thing but its an app for your phone. great for emergencies if u need to ssh to your server or something

[BradleyBrown]

Aw, man! I got all excited. It's exactly what I've been looking for, for use with packet radio.