[evanjrowley]

The Beepy is just as capable. The T-Deck is only serving as an interface to the Meshtastic LoRa node. A Beepy can run a Meshtastic companion app and connect over Bluetooth, just like the T-Deck.

[pkage]

Beepys have a pretty big issue with randomly shorting out due to a design flaw, according to the Discord forum anecdata. It happened to mine, unfortunately.

A very capable little device before it cooked itself, though—having a raspberry pi in your pocket is a lot of fun.

[CTOSian]

There is a fix for the U2 issue : https://beepy.space/t/shorted-tps61030-u2/21

[evanjrowley]

Thank you for pointing this out. I had no idea. Seems like the kind of thing that all Beepy users should be made aware of.

[gfaure]

But the backlit screen does make a difference in usability, one has to admit?