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title: Lemma's Silly Gadget Thing

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# Lemma's Silly Gadget Thing

I wanna make something cool and useless like the VMU or whatever so let's brainstorm it here!

## Fundamental Principles
- Cool
- Useless (compared to like a smartphone or whatever)
- Quasi-retro (new tech, old style)
- Repairable (probably mostly off-the-shelf parts)
- Interesting

## Brainstorming
(conflicting ideas ok, this is just brainstorming)
- Backlit dot-matrix display on front
    - Maybe frontlit?
- E-Ink on back
- WiFi/Bluetooth (limited?)
- Bleeper speaker
- Physical connectivity (non-USB)
    - FireWire?
    - Something custom?
- Obligatory USB-C for power and flashing updates (more debug than anything)
- Plug into other computers(?)
- Click wheel for input
- Full button set
- Rechargable/replacable battery
- Headphone jack
- Enviro sensors
- Removable storage
- IR transceiver
- .beat clock display

## To Figure Out

- How big?
    - VMU sized? GB sized? Bigger isn't very feasible
- How powerful?
    - Microcontroller or SBC?
    - Leaning towards microcontroller
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