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by riobard 659 days ago
I'm playing with one now (the full kit) attached to my toy mini PC. It's a little RISC-V device consuming a couple watts. No WiFi yet, but it attaches to PC and emulates 4 things in addition to capturing HDMI output to a web UI:

1. A USB keyboard.

2. A USB mouse.

3. A USB flash drive (using a partition on its internal SD card) for storing bootable ISO to install/rescure systems.

4. A USB NIC which is very neat. I can use it on the PC to expose management SSH port just on that instead of the primary NIC, so that the PC has a sorta dedicated IPMI interface.

Newer versions of the device software come with WireGuard and Tailscale support, so I can just connect to it over VPN.

Still have some minor issues, but the developers are working fast to fix them.