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0 pointscanucker20162y ago0 comments

Since Teenage Engineering has been mentioned as a design partner, I'd look at the specs for the Playdate and give it a spec bump.

Based on the rabbit keynote showing a colour screen - take a Playdate device, turn 90 degrees counterclockwise and reduce the height-now-width since you don't need a controller, just a roller wheel, pushbutton, and rotating camera.

Quick web search states a Playdate device has a 168MHz ARM Cortex M7 and a 400x240 LCD B&W screen.

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snvzz2y ago

Playdate seemed interesting, until I read the words "proprietary SDK".

Hell no. This is no better than a gameboy or whatever the current Nintendo console is.

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