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[–] ggppjj@lemmy.world 49 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm in tears, I've finally found the version of this toy I had as a kid.

Thank you so much for this shitpost, sincerely.

[–] ravhall@discuss.online 10 points 10 months ago

One person’s shit[post] is another one’s childhood 😘

[–] terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 10 months ago (3 children)

You joke but it would be an awesome project. Maybe replace the screen with a real LCD, shove an rpi inside etc.

[–] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 11 points 10 months ago

"diy dr.k" on YouTube did something similar with a barbie kid's laptop

[–] fin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, it’d be really cool if it could run real OS inside it, and can play sound from the builtin speaker it apparently has

[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

It does seem like it'd be pretty cool, though much rather them than me lol. I think shoving an rpi inside though would really betray the implicit spirit of the project. That would just be "can a raspberry pi run linux when I put in a plastic case shaped like a children's toy?" The answer would pretty obviously be yes. People are saying the processor in it means it probably couldn't run Linux which would make it a bit of a non-starter but there apparently other OSs that could be made to run on that kind of processor and that'd be cool to see.

[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 33 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If it’s like the older vtech educational toys it uses some z80 processor, so you won’t be able to run Linux but you can a few different hobbyist microcomputer operating systems like zeal8bit and fuzix.

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Man, I had a vtech “computer” as a kid in the later 90’s. I don’t remember what happened to it or what it was even actually good for.

Pretty sure this is what I had.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/395832416009?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=0qo80bobtii&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=R-vbXi9SRQ6&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 33 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I don’t know. You should make sure it doesn’t have a Realtek Wi-Fi card. Otherwise, it looks fine. I found the Linux Hardware report for it here: https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=7144bb41

I think the price to performance doesn’t look the best, though. Maybe go for a Thinkpad instead?

[–] ravhall@discuss.online 4 points 10 months ago
[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Realtek work great since 6.2

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago

I think it’s mistly okay. I had a bit of misery with my 8852BE on my new Thinkpad E16 (the card would just disconnect from the system until the next reboot occasionally), which was solved with some kernel parameters I found online.

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 27 points 10 months ago

You may want to also post this to !linuxmemes@lemmy.world

[–] assembly@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

Bet it can run doom.

[–] TotalFat@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] ravhall@discuss.online 5 points 10 months ago

You belong in a museum.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Just hang it on the wall

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 15 points 10 months ago

Hanna Montana, and you're good to go.

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

Someone with NetBSD is already scouring eBay.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

$500 might be a stretch, It weren't for the horrible keyboard, and horrible screen, it might be worth putting a raspberry pi into as a sleeper project.

Yes I realize it's a joke.

[–] JustAnOrdinaryCreep@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I bet my left nut it runs NetBSD flawlessly.

[–] ravhall@discuss.online 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What am I going to do with your left nut?

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

First, I'll use a pair of rusty sizors to extract them, then I slice it into thin strips and fry with a little olive oil and garlic

I recommend with a grain of salt

[–] JustAnOrdinaryCreep@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] ravhall@discuss.online 2 points 10 months ago

I think we might both like it…

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wonder what CPU it has. You should tear it down and see if you can get some custom code running.

[–] ravhall@discuss.online 1 points 10 months ago

What I should do it toss a pi in there and tease everyone

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

More importantly, can it run doom?

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is that just a model, or is there actually a display in the middle that does something?

[–] electricprism@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Be sure to wear your hacking goggles while flying through hyperspace, wouldn't wanna catch any bugs in your eyes at such fast speeds.

[–] ravhall@discuss.online 4 points 10 months ago

Oh, I’m not moving. I just always have wind in my hair. 😎😎😎😎

[–] lerudd@social.vivaldi.net 2 points 10 months ago

@ravhall half a kilobuck just to make it happen? guess if that floats your arch boat, go do it and report back on your success!

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] ravhall@discuss.online 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wwwwow. Yeah that is cooler. Is that just a repurposed oscilloscope?

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Realistically with that screen size you could put anything in that thing. How do you get the impression that it might be a little smaller than it looks though.

[–] ravhall@discuss.online 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, since it’s for kids, I think we need an adult sized hand in there for scale. Or a banana

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

yeah its very possible, Take a blow torch and arch linux iso (you need wizard to take it out of your pc you can find the wizard hiding in your tor browser he built a house inside of the tor browser.) then take a blowtorch and burn the iso into the pc front now it should be running arch btw.