Ask HN: Funkey S – open hardware / firmware portable device, project ideas?

3 points

3 years ago

In the last months I did some research to replace my good old iPod Nano 7 with a small hackable low power device (non android). It was an interesting journey and on the way I found very interesting things, e.g. the Funkey S[1] - a ridiculously small device made for portable gaming.

What may look pretty boring at first gets more interesting as soon as you check out the docs[2] - it is:

  Open Hardware[3] - all parts are listed and decisions explained
  Open Firmware[4] - buildroot based hackable linux firmware
  Well documented[2] - lots of detailed information about the process

I thought with some modifications (touchscreen, audio jack) it might be possible to create a small, affordable and hackable replacement of my iPod nano (see my github issue[5]).

So I would like to Ask HN:

- What would you think of a retro portable audio player mod?

- What other interesting projects could you think of for this?

[1]: https://www.funkey-project.com/

[2]: https://doc.funkey-project.com/developer_guide/hardware_reference/

[3]: https://github.com/FunKey-Project/FunKey-S-Hardware

[4]: https://github.com/FunKey-Project/FunKey-OS

[5]: https://github.com/FunKey-Project/FunKey-S-Hardware/issues/5