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Show HN: 5 Years Ago I made the Recovery Kit, I just made the RK2

If you're not familiar with the Recovery Kit, it's something I made back in 2019 and posted to my original back7.co blog. I created it before I knew what a "cyberdeck" was beyond a simple part of William Gibson's Neuromancer. I wanted a rugged computer enclosure for my Raspberry

I have been making other stuff since then, but the Recovery Kit got picked up by The Verge, the Raspberry Pi Magazine, Hackster, and more- but the bucket list items were from Hackernews, Hackaday, and Uncrate. The Quick Kit and its variants have arguably had a bigger impact to people, since it allowed for making a rugged Pi computer with a much simpler assembly process (and without any soldering). Even with the NVME it boots up fine and runs great- some builds of Raspberry Pi OS complained breifly about undervoltage, but I think that's an artifact of how the Pi5 tests- the screen showed that the Pi5 never came close to the battery's limits.

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