• thann@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Incidentally, you’ll want to avoid draining the Beepy’s battery too deeply if you can help it — according to the schematics (and confirmed on my actual hardware) SQFMI have used a 10K resistor on the “programming” pin of the TP4054 charging IC. That sets the chip’s charge rate to a measly 100 mA, which means a full recharge of the battery would take somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 hours. It’s hard to believe this was intentional, and may be addressed on a later hardware revision.

    Yeah, this is a really cool idea, but they need to flush it out a little more. analogue audio and faster charging would make it a lot more appealing

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        1 year ago

        Has me wondering if ever we’ll reach a state where we just have battery packs like backpacks that we just wear as a daily habit, like putting a shirt on. It’ll charge up overnight, then go in a sleeve that’s machine washable (otherwise ew), and have a half dozen or so PD USB-C ports that we just tap into for phones, smart watches, laptops, etc

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          People definitely care battery chargers around and I’ve seen some that are integrated into backpacks already so it’s kind of already started. I heard the chargeable backpacks are kinda meh though and you’re pretty much better off just sticking some batteries in your pack.

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      1 year ago

      20 hours

      What the fuck. Yes it is a cool product, THAT however needs to be fixed before they launch this thing. 20 hours? Imagine trying to implement this for some kind of project and having to wait basically a whole goddamn day for it to charge lmao