Vi 🏳️⚧️Now that I think of it, I actually started (never finished) two fantasy consoles. Well, not consoles. Fantasy machines?
One of them was called -2 (I thought it was kind of funny using a negative number as "brand") and emulated an old LCD touchscreen with 4 shades of (brownish) gray. You used the mouse to simulate the stylus and had a cute little windowing GUI that resembled old Macs.
Kevin Karhan 
@kkarhan I imagined it more like a hybrid of a Newton and a Nokia Communicator.
@vi like a #Nokia9110 with bigger screen?
NOICE!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_9000_Communicator#9110
@kkarhan Yes! I had a 9500. Great little machines!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_9500_Communicator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_9500_Communicator
@vi I do aim at something similar, tho not a #console but a nifty little device that does encrypted messaging...
Problem is to source some tiny, HDMI(!) driven panels and design a case for a @Raspberry_Pi #Pi0 v1.3 + extra components... https://github.com/KBtechnologies/PocketCrypto
@kkarhan That is SO COOL. Doesn't the Pi do VGA? Probably easier to find small panels. Or even embed some kind of conversion circuit.
@vi sadly, no.
the @Raspberry_Pi only does #HDMI and I struggle to find some panels that don't block the #GPIO using SPI and requiring questionable scripts and/or dont work from boot on a CLI...
@vi @Raspberry_Pi And the #VT69 by #ViolenceWorks does provide a #CLI interface, but it's way bulkier than what I want the #PocketCrypto to me...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYfpptgb6W8
http://violence.works
VT-69 Dumb Terminal
@vi @Raspberry_Pi Instead I want some "rugged chonker" like the #Iridium 9555 in terms of dimensions...
you know, the kind of thing that'll take 18650 cells an doubles as throwing weapon!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjkNPvzCRKg
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Maybe make it fold open like a Communicator to allow for a comfy thumb keyboard...
But otherwise, I want a device that'll outlive me in terms of ruggedness...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZWN65NqNOc
Iridium Extreme®
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