Yellow Kitty
Member
I came across the Openpandora only a few weeks ago. Before that, I had no idea anything like the Pandora, or a community like this even existed.
What first led me to eventually find you guys was that a few month ago I was making a Piratebox: http://piratebox.cc/
The Piratebox is this open source device that lets you have a chunk of your own cyberspace and people can log into it, chat with you, share files, and post in a forum via wi-fi. I first made a piratebox with a wi-fi router called the TP-Link 3040 or something like that. It only took me 5 minutes to set up.
I then told a friend about the piratebox a week later. My friend became very interested and had the idea of hooking up a piratebox to a quad helicopter drone, to provide access to his piratebox [which he'd make] at large protests. We figured that the wi-fi router I used was too heavy for a copter drone. So I told my friend that the piratebox site talks about something called a "Raspberry Pi" thing which looks like a electrical circuit that is only the size of a credit card. I told my friend that this Pi board might work with a quad drone. So my friend said he'd buy the "Raspberry Pi Ultimate Starter Kit," to set up his piratebox. And I then also bought the same ultimate starter kit.
Before that day I had never heard of a Raspberry Pi. And so, while waiting for my Pi kit to be delivered, I googled a few things about it. That's when I learned that it's a tiny Linux computer! I grew up on Windows and I've barely learned that Linux existed a couple years ago. I'm not computer savvy.
So anyways: I got my Raspberry Pi kit, and I went to the piratebox site to follow the instructions. It took me one whole frustrating day to set up my Raspberry Pi and get it to start X. My step dad had to hook it up via the HDMI thing to a tv screen for me. It took me a whole 2 more days to hack the Pi and turn it into a piratebox!
After I got my Raspberry Pi[rate]box working, I thought it was really cool that a Linux computer could be so small. If the Pi thing had a little screen and keyboard, I'd probably carry it in my pocket. That's when I had this impulse to google for a computer that would fit in my pocket!
I found nothing but old outdated devices. I first bought a Nokia N810 which is from 2007. The N810 runs on a Linux distro called Maemo or something. I then bought the Nokia N900. The N900 sucked ass and I shelved it. But I really liked the N810 because it worked and behaved like a real computer, but it was small enough to fit in your pocket! So I thought to myself: "There must be a current device like the N810 but better out there." So I searched.
That's when I discovered something I never knew existed. My search led me to that Neo900 group where a group of people are fixing to take the old Nokia N900 and make an Open Source computer device out of it. I thought this idea of an open source mini computer running on Linux was very cool, but I didn't like the N900. So I googled for other open souce communities working on similar projects... which eventually led me to discover the Openpandora.
I spent about a few weeks watching every youtube video about the Open Pandora, read every website I could find, learned a few things about the Craig drama, and found the Pyra site and so on. I ordered my Pandora recently which will be delivered tomorrow!!!
I got Yoshi's emulator folder kit thing all ready to go, plus the two SD cards. I also have 4 games [ROMs]. But basically, I'd like to use my Pandora to write and read with. I read and write a lot. With a Pandora - and later a Pyra - I'll always have an on the fly thing to write with. My favorite thing about Linux is the gpg encryption.
I'm very glad I found you guys! I wish Evil Dragon and everyone the best of luck. It's a niche device... but there is a market out there for it. I'm personally sick of these smartphones. But that's a different topic.
Nice to meet eveybody.
What first led me to eventually find you guys was that a few month ago I was making a Piratebox: http://piratebox.cc/
The Piratebox is this open source device that lets you have a chunk of your own cyberspace and people can log into it, chat with you, share files, and post in a forum via wi-fi. I first made a piratebox with a wi-fi router called the TP-Link 3040 or something like that. It only took me 5 minutes to set up.
I then told a friend about the piratebox a week later. My friend became very interested and had the idea of hooking up a piratebox to a quad helicopter drone, to provide access to his piratebox [which he'd make] at large protests. We figured that the wi-fi router I used was too heavy for a copter drone. So I told my friend that the piratebox site talks about something called a "Raspberry Pi" thing which looks like a electrical circuit that is only the size of a credit card. I told my friend that this Pi board might work with a quad drone. So my friend said he'd buy the "Raspberry Pi Ultimate Starter Kit," to set up his piratebox. And I then also bought the same ultimate starter kit.
Before that day I had never heard of a Raspberry Pi. And so, while waiting for my Pi kit to be delivered, I googled a few things about it. That's when I learned that it's a tiny Linux computer! I grew up on Windows and I've barely learned that Linux existed a couple years ago. I'm not computer savvy.
So anyways: I got my Raspberry Pi kit, and I went to the piratebox site to follow the instructions. It took me one whole frustrating day to set up my Raspberry Pi and get it to start X. My step dad had to hook it up via the HDMI thing to a tv screen for me. It took me a whole 2 more days to hack the Pi and turn it into a piratebox!
After I got my Raspberry Pi[rate]box working, I thought it was really cool that a Linux computer could be so small. If the Pi thing had a little screen and keyboard, I'd probably carry it in my pocket. That's when I had this impulse to google for a computer that would fit in my pocket!
I found nothing but old outdated devices. I first bought a Nokia N810 which is from 2007. The N810 runs on a Linux distro called Maemo or something. I then bought the Nokia N900. The N900 sucked ass and I shelved it. But I really liked the N810 because it worked and behaved like a real computer, but it was small enough to fit in your pocket! So I thought to myself: "There must be a current device like the N810 but better out there." So I searched.
That's when I discovered something I never knew existed. My search led me to that Neo900 group where a group of people are fixing to take the old Nokia N900 and make an Open Source computer device out of it. I thought this idea of an open source mini computer running on Linux was very cool, but I didn't like the N900. So I googled for other open souce communities working on similar projects... which eventually led me to discover the Openpandora.
I spent about a few weeks watching every youtube video about the Open Pandora, read every website I could find, learned a few things about the Craig drama, and found the Pyra site and so on. I ordered my Pandora recently which will be delivered tomorrow!!!
I got Yoshi's emulator folder kit thing all ready to go, plus the two SD cards. I also have 4 games [ROMs]. But basically, I'd like to use my Pandora to write and read with. I read and write a lot. With a Pandora - and later a Pyra - I'll always have an on the fly thing to write with. My favorite thing about Linux is the gpg encryption.
I'm very glad I found you guys! I wish Evil Dragon and everyone the best of luck. It's a niche device... but there is a market out there for it. I'm personally sick of these smartphones. But that's a different topic.
Nice to meet eveybody.
