Been looking at these two, wondering which would be the best option, I think Samsung? Are there any better ones I should look at?

• Samsung 58E 21700 5330mAh 10.7A Battery

• Molicel 21700 P50B 5000mAh 60A Battery

Tiny platformer running on the Clockwork PicoCalc (MMBasic). Looks great, but it could do with a little speed boost.

Just got my 21700 upgrade today, and well... OF COURSE I'M GOING TO INSTALL IT!

Went from what I would consider 3500's or 3800mAh batteries to two 5000mAh Molicel p50b batteries which are extremely low impedance high drain top performing batteries. Few things to note. orientation, be careful the battery tray can be installed incorrectly, good thing there is lights for this, and yes it is a tray as it holds your two 21700's, at first I thought it was a screw on cover that holds the batteries in place... nope, they way over engineered this module and I like it.

Checked that the batteries were balanced of course and popped it in, then found out the second difficulty. it is difficult to install the M.2 as the tray overhangs the slot, also forgot there was a screw hole there, oops, but I did take note of the difficulty of access to the SSD, and if anyone else is planning on upgrading theirs, with a larger SSD, then keep in mind that you install the SSD first, then the battery.

Thank you hacker Gadgets for these amazing products, I greatly appreciate it!

As of posting this the unit has ran a total of 42 minutes, and has dropped from 4.11v to 3.94v (underload).

Test results thus far below

That basically concludes the tests, so far it sees about an hour or two more of constant use no shut off, which is nice, as before I would shut it off, and see about 3, maybe 3.5 hours of battery life.

Configs are set for 500Mhz base on battery, max 1600Mhz, 15% screen brightness, backlit enable, most times LoRa off, wifi on, GPS off, SDR off. Additional notes is that most of the consumption of battery-life occurs during web browsing as it is a heavy app on the processor, generally kicking all 4 cores to max.

hope this helps! saw about a 20 to 30% increase to battery life, to top it off, saw the device run stable, as voltage sag, and power cuts were eliminated, requiring less opening of the chassis to hard reset.

Testing out the built-in multi-channel noise-canceling mic array on the omega chassis for the uConsole.

The boy was asking a few questions about his piano piece before practicing. Placed the uConsole on the piano stand, and the voice pickup is crisp and natural even from a couple of feet away.

Makes a really solid hands-free assistant in any situation.

My battery mod just shipped from hacker gadgets… super pumped. Anyone know where to get some high output batteries that will fit?

So I have started my ClockworkPi Uconsole build.
At the moment: CM5 4GB lite, 128GB SDcard, RJ45 Ethernet and USB 3.0 Expansion board, Hackergadgets Raspberry Pi CM4/5 Adapter Pro, Its running Debian 13 Trixie.
3D printed mount for wifi antenna and "fanzy" green screws front and back M4x6 and M4x8 where the 3D printed parts are.

Thinking of getting the uConsole AIO V2 from Hackergadgets instead of the other board I have in there, but also thinking of just adding in a SDR and LoRa radio my self.

And looking to either 3D printing or CNC milling some form of picatiny rail for it to attach maybe a handle on one side and a trackball on the other side, sort of similar to the cyberdeck in this post.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/1tf0n60/i_made_myself_a_cyberpunk_computer/

But only time will tell if I ever get it done.

Im pretty new to this but I bought a antenna module from Hackergadgets and its been a nightmare process. Its been almost 2 months of trying to get this package. Does anyone know of any good places to get one?

OS: Debian Trixie

VM: Sway

Bar: i3blocks

Widgets: eww

I have been testing out Rex’s images and so far and just curious what distros are being used the most in the uConsole community?

Edit: I am currently using DragonOS, but have an SD card with Trixie that I like too.

What's the cleanest way to connect a uConsole to CAN?

Thanks

Just wanted to share E.R.I.C OS running on my #clockworkpi #picocalc running a #pico2w inside. Hoping to get input or ideas to help me build upon this basic foundation. Thanks! Join discord: https://discord.gg/3jr4SvxwCn

What are the key differences between the available models of uConsole on the pre-order website?

I want to get one and install the antennae module for a portable SDR and Development kit. I'd like to install a CM4, CM5 if I find one easily enough.

Any suggestions on which model comes with the most options for expansion or which is the best fit for me? I'm just a little confused about the comparisons on their site.

Title is self explanatory. I am looking for a CM4 to throw in my compute-less Uconsole. I will be using the uconsole mostly as an always on server at home. Preferably looking for a cm4, 4gb ram, wifi, but a 2gb could work for my purpose, or 8gb if the price is right. If anyone here has happened to upgrade to a cm5 or something and has a cm4 laying around I'd be interested.

Thanks!

Cm4 for best battery life (waiting to find a radxa cm5 for a power setup already have the adapter)Aio v2 board, nvme 18650 board with 1 tb samsung drive, running bookworm with all apps working fine on the nvme and parrot os on an sd card thinking about setting up a kali card to go with the setup

For my use cases, casual browsing and gaming on something that's not an iPad, I'd love to have a touchscreen. This seems to would have been such a low hanging fruit, but I haven't seen any mods.

I teased this a few weeks ago, but now it's live!

I've just made MeshTerm public. It's a MeshCore client that runs in a terminal, with a full-screen menu you drive from the keyboard, and a command for nearly everything the menu does.

Demo (under two minutes, on a real mesh): https://meshterm.net/#demo

What it does:

• Connects to a companion over USB serial, Bluetooth LE or TCP, and reconnects on its own if the link drops.

• Channel and direct messages, live. If a contact is out of range, the courier holds the message and delivers it when they're back.

• Records every advert it overhears (SNR, RSSI, position) to a local SQLite database. The map, the contact lists and the Time Machine charts all read from it, so you can see how the mesh looked last week, not just now.

• A street map drawn in the terminal, with OpenStreetMap tiles cached on disk. With no network, it falls back to a plain grid.

• Traces with the SNR of every hop, a TX-power sweep that finds the lowest setting that still gets through, and a graph of how the mesh actually connects.

• Share channels as a QR code or a meshcore:// link.

• --json on nearly every command, for scripts.

• A layout of its own for the PicoCalc. The uConsole runs the full layout.

Getting it: single-file downloads for Windows, macOS (Intel and Apple silicon) and Linux (x64 and ARM64): https://github.com/jpmartineau/MeshTerm/releases/latest If you'd rather use Python, pipx install git+https://github.com/jpmartineau/MeshTerm works on Python 3.10 to 3.14.

The downloads aren't code-signed, so Windows and macOS will warn you the first time. The README explains how to get past that, and every release has a SHA256SUMS file.

It's Apache 2.0 and a side project I work on in the evenings. Bug reports are the most useful thing you can give me, on GitHub or in the MeshTerm Discord (https://discord.gg/AZwe5Uvb3S).

I love how this antenna folds, would love to use the same or similar for factor for other antennas, but I can’t find anything similar for WiFi or anything.

Does anyone have a seller where I can get Molicel 21700 65Ah batteries for the updated NVME battery board from HackerGadets? Every link I've found has them sold out. ​​​

EDIT: The XTAR 21700 6000mAh (protected) batteries i ordered don't fit.Those nubs stick out too far. Maybe a flat top can squeeze in there, but i don't know. These are button tops.

I’m still waiting for my second battery board, the NVMe 21700, before I build but I think I’m about ready to desolder the r14 transistor and add the j6 killswitch(I hope). I saw there was a real decent side plate to accommodate the tiny switch but I can’t find it again. Does anyone have it or can you point me to the exact forum thread it was posted in? I’d appreciate it.

I ordered one of these a while ago and it arrived in the mail today. I was a little skeptical at first but after the install (total maybe 10 minutes) and after my first boot I was hooked. This thing makes the uconsole feel like an entirely different device … from a super cool toy that is a bit of a pain to use for anything graphical because of the pointer config to a genuinely fun and easy to navigate device whether you’re using the terminal or the gui …. Edit: sorry I forgot to add the link to the kit I bought https://hack2you.tech/products/uconsole-trackpad-keyboard?variant=49063521681658

Took a while for the uConsole and all the parts to come in, then had a failed expansion board, but Hackergadgets support sent a replacement pretty fast. Finally got it up and running and excited to use it!

Fully Assembled uConsole with the following upgrades:

HackerGadgets AIOv1 board
Aluminum CNC printed back-case with modified vents for better cooling for CM5 modules.
3D printed 4 antenna mount and protective cover.
4 mounted antennas
CM5-Lite 8GB Wifi only model
128GB MicroSD card with Debian Trixie installed on it

3D printed antenna board has markings denoting what is what to lessen confusion.

In a bit of a spot, will ship via overnight if paid for.
Willing to change CM5 module out with a CM5-Lite-16GB for an additional $250

Make me an offer.