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Pocket Z project hopes to rekindle pocket PC form factor with a RPi Zero 2W


Reviving the 'glory days' of PDAs and Ultra-Mobile PCs.

Icepat also added a single USB-A port for connecting accessories like a mouse, keyboard, or external storage. Icepat was able to get the first prototype to boot into Raspberry Pi OS Lite and load the XFCE desktop environment and learned some important lessons along the way. The XFCE desktop on the Pocket Z (Image credit: Icepat on Hackaday.io)Icepat also says it would be nice to develop a custom keyboard for the UPMC, but acknowledges that “Building a good keyboard is really hard and a low price point is still one of the main goals.” The project is off to a good start, though.

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