The excitement of the Beepberry

When I saw this thing on Jeff Geerling’s blog I knew I had to have it. As he mentioned in his blog post, this thing has a super crisp low-power LCD display and a backlit Blackberry keyboard that I find to be very usable. The best part IMO is that the device is run by a Raspberry Pi zero. That makes this thing VERY capable as a stealth Linux terminal.

With all my excitement built up, I printed a case, installed the Pi and ran the script to get it setup the same day I got it. I even started on my first project. Getting a terminal based IRC client running on the tiny device.