[buzzert]

It sounds like what you're looking for is the Pocket C.H.I.P. The company went out of business, but I bought one back in the day and it was so fun to hack around with.

While writing this comment, I discovered that there's a website selling new old stock? Can't vouch for its authenticity, but you should go for it! https://shop.pocketchip.co/collections/frontpage/products/po...

[Fnoord]

I don't think that is akin to an 8 to 10" Android tablet/screen. Then again, I don't see how all the other products are related to the one mentioned here. Except they're all hackable?

If you want a small device to play old games on via an emulator, I can recommend Pocketsprite [1]. You can even assemble one yourself.

FWIW, I'm looking for a small portable screen (1080p, IPS) to combine with my MBP 2015 (via TB2 or HDMI but I also want it to have USB-C for future compatibility).

[1] https://pocketsprite.com

[epmaybe]

If just looking for a portable display, there are plenty on amazon. I bought a Chinese brand, magedock, because they had a touch screen 1600p model that was more portable than the others (no battery though).

[Fnoord]

Yeah, Amazon is such a rain-forest though. There's a plethora of devices there, and I don't trust the reviews. I'd prefer a 14", don't require touchscreen (though if it would cost me 50 EUR, I'd go for it, but not double the price like ThinkVision M14t). Speaking of which I've seen the ThinkVision M14 for 180 EUR, that's a fair price. It has high brightness of 300 nits (better than the Asus one, of which the 16" gets recommended a lot even though its barely readable in sunlight), though reportedly also has coil whine. However, it _only_ supports USB-C. So I would need some kind of adapter I guess. A lot of the Chinese stuff has the adapters included, but even the brandnames just don't make sense. Magedok was out of stock (they didn't have Magedock). Battery I don't care for; I'd just hang a powerbank behind it with velcro.

[buzzert]

Specifically, GP’s mention of “with a row of gpio pins on it” is what made me think of the CHIP, and I don’t think there are any tablets that have that.

[golem14]

The esp32-based m5stack Stick-C finger computer seems like a very inexpensive alternative, comes with a built-in bunch of sensors, a small battery and a small display for $11.

https://www.google.com/search?q=m5stack+stick+c