If you can’t find the device you want, why not build your own from scratch. raspberry pi community. Today I have a project to share from a maker named Anil aka one_free_man_ on Reddit. portable handheld A device called an octapod.
Octapod is built around a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W and runs DietPi, a low-resource Linux operating system designed for building appliances. It’s backed by a touchscreen interface and acts as a custom music player with the help of an application called Lollypop. Anil programmed his Octapod to boot directly into the music playback interface. So no extra steps are required to load your favorite songs.
Along with the touchscreen, there are also several buttons that can be used to control settings. Use the power button to safely turn your Pi on and off, and the sync button to wake up your device, launch services, and close music applications.
As mentioned, it’s built around a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W and also uses a 2.8-inch Waveshare touchscreen and 3500 mah battery, as well as a 512 GB micro SD card for storage. What holds it all together is the case Anil made using epoxy rather than laser cutting or his 3D printing.
Like most Pi projects shared by the community, this is completely open source. Anil provides the source code for those who want to build it themselves or see how this all works together. You can examine the code in the original project thread at: reddit.
If you want to recreate this Raspberry Pi project, full post Also, look for comments posted by Anil to understand the hardware required and how to program the handheld. Follow Anil or one_free_man_ for more cool projects and future updates.
