Ha, I knew about the AlphaSmart at one point and had totally forgotten it, but that's where I want to go. Totally a great example of a TRS-80 M100 clone. We can do this better now. Cheaper, better, relevant to multiple markets.
The FreeWrite seems conceptually close but misses the mark on a lot of implementation points. Running a Raspberry Pi or whatever is totally unnecessary. So is the realtime Dropbox syncback. Battery life is sacred, bitch.
It's also $500 for a Raspberry Pi in a plastic shell. I want to do an actual Raspberry Pi-style project that can be bought for something perceived as an actual value option in its situation.
Let's engineer a product for this, actually for this, not just "RPi but with XYZ".
