The Curiously Strong Portable Computer
Fully functional computers that can run a Linux operating system don’t come in packages much smaller than the Raspberry Pi Zero. You can easily slip one (or several) of them in your pocket and forget that they are even there. However, while these little machines technically have everything that’s needed to act as a general-purpose computer, you wouldn’t know it if you just stuck one in your pocket. At a minimum, you would need to add a power supply, display, and keyboard to make it useful.
It’s not looking quite so compact after you add all of that, now is it? But with some hacking, it is possible to shrink all of these components down into a pint-sized computer that you can take anywhere. YouTuber Exercising Ingenuity, for instance, has just created a complete Raspberry Pi-powered portable computer that fits inside an Altoids tin. Opening the lid reveals a 2-inch...
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