Introducing the credit card sized Cardputer!! 

I'd love to see a more comprehensive video of what this can do

How is all THAT only $30? The answer has gotta be slave labor, I don't see any other way.

Sorry what do you mean by bio? Your channel's about tab? This isn't Instagram

You could use it for a control unit for anything, even a dirty bomb.

​@@gownerjones1450Obviously, you understood, so why the saltiness ?

And what a future we missed out on

@@dylanlastname6784 clearly not, this type of thing was made in 2000

​@@dylanlastname6784hard disagree there tons of gadgets like this in 2000s.

​@@dylanlastname6784We have this tech on our wrists now lol

​@@murphy7801I almost wish I was born in the 80s so I could witness the new age of technology first hand. So much history in those few decades.

Massively underrated comment 🤣

LMAOO underrated af

Desktop-sized or laptop-/notebook-sized credit card?

@@duomaxwell6523both

Both

yeah but this is only $30

A cellphone of a similar (credit card) size ? Oh, I see, you have a flipphone ! Good for you ! 😂😂😂

Not really

@@daltonx6177 most of the space in a modern phone is battery and camera lens. The actually computer part is pretty small.

And free 24/7 monitoring and sale of all your activity!

Meanwhile you wrote this message on a cell phone problem probably which has more technology packed into the same size device😂

​@@VineyardGHS it's about looking like 80s sci fi... Not that it actually is advanced or something

It reminds me of those watch calculators of the 80's. I had one my dad gave me as a kid in 2002

thats how google was made

rapid prorotyping for smaller models. Lego breaks with car-brake-weights (of 2 car wheels) on levers longer than 2 meters, but are fine at 1,5 meter long levers.

@@robproductions2599with legos?

​@@LexDevilyes

​@@LexDevilTechnically, Google used Lego bricks to shell their original server in. That's also why Google uses the colors that they do because the bricks were the same colors.

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@@aboriginalunderground4958 🤠🤠🤠

​@@aboriginalunderground4958 not the nerd emojis on a computer video you yourself also watched

Thats pretty awesome. Going to go down this rabbit hole about this lego stuff. Good to know what it does!

@FRANK45CASTLE you will be amazed at what humans can do with Legos. I'm perpetually jealous of all the Legos that exist, and I don't have. The only thing I've made was a 3-speed automatic transmission with forward, reverse, and neutral in an all lego RC with McPherson strut suspension. It's a lot of fun and equally a lot of money...

I always used a mechanical timer-

@@meloney it’s just a simple example to let folks know what the possibilities could be.

Damn didn't think of a grow room! Lol

That is a good idea

Same

Same

Credit card doom ofc

Same lol i use the esp32 a Lot! This thing Is just everything serio for a nice project

Same 😂

The entire 1960's-70's space program could have been powered by this thing.

⁠my middle school principal, and neighbor, tried tutoring me in calculus with a huge slide rule that hung down from the chalkboard. That was the 80s in Kentucky and resources were even tighter than they are now. Looking back I guess he was a pretty sharp guy - despite the Grecian formula buzz cut, short sleeve polyester button downs, and horned rim glasses lol. The man retired before our school got its first computer yet he taught AP calculus and trig for decades. Seems taxing lol. It’s crazy how things have changed in such a relatively short period of time.

@@flatsixx My dad had a slide rule that he taught me to use back in the day. It's funny speaking of outdated technology, I took my first typing class in 1991 in middle school. The teacher taught by playing recorded messages on a old reel to reel tape player of her saying things letter by letter such as: a, a, capital C, capital C, capital C, AG AG AG AG, verbally.The tape would read the letter and we would type it etc. I am a middle school teacher currently. There's no way my kids could handle something like that. Technology has improved so many things in our lives, and I am optimistic about our society's future...

@flatsixx My dad had a slide rule that he taught me to use back in the day. It's funny speaking of outdated technology, I took my first typing class in 1991 in middle school. The teacher taught by playing recorded messages on a old reel to reel tape player of her saying things letter by letter such as: a, a, capital C, capital C, capital C, AG AG AG AG, verbally.The tape would read the letter and we would type it etc. I am a middle school teacher currently. There's no way my kids could handle something like that. Technology has improved so many things in our lives, and I am optimistic about our society's future...

First I had was an MS-DOS Toshiba laptop with the orange screen. Built-in modem, but came with a telephone handset adapter. I had to use Procomm Plus on it to dial in to Nortel PBXes at the time. The only game on it was Gorillas throwing exploding bananas.

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You have that too sometimes?

Dude I had a vision of like some nuclear reactor control room creation with that as soon as he said it

MacGyver

How? Like, I know it's going to happen, but... How?

LOL. No one is going into outer space anytime soon. Can’t get past the atmosphere as it is.

@@beastshawnee jeeeez. There’s always one. Give it a rest.

There's more than enough computing power to calculate the engine burns and course corrections to get to Mars. The problem is fuel 😂

I was going to ask if it can work as a terminal for serial devices. Very nice.

Gotta get on the HuB quick sometimes

You do the old Cisco 6500 serial Port lines with this?

This is exactly what I’m going to use it for although radius auth may prove challenging, but basic config elements for out of box devices I’m all in. It’s serial so literally almost any network device console

@@red_ford23 hasn’t failed me yet.

Sounds like you need a clear back phone

Yu want a cellphone without any bloatware & totally controlable all functions

Just as we're discussing under another comment. It's simply wild, even if you tracked video game console progression.

Yeah growing up before U.I interfaces in PCs gives us a very interesting perspective. I wonder how future generations will view us like the ppl.when electricity was spreading. How we lived through beginning of computing/internet etc

@captaintoyota3171 Yeah, great perspective. After responding to this, I was in a phone game and a player mentioned having a T-1000. I exclaimed that it was the 2nd time I'd heard that in a day. We started to talk about BBS, and the "cookbook" was even mentioned. I relayed for some reason I was watching VHS '85 and had just tried to explain to my little one about them landing on the moon the other night and was met with indifference and back to playing Roblox or watching FNAF lore or whatever. Az said I guess there's some nostalgia going around which completely fit the recent events. We got into feeling old, saying the kids didn't get it before we surrendered. The top players are all younger. The way my kid games and understands things is more profound than my skills were trying to jump Mario over a pit. I had more attention and plan and think things through which I would appreciate some patience. Regardless, I see a super fast rate of processing, problem solving, and acting over reacting, which leads me to the same thoughts. In 30 years, what will be thought about the old iPads and phones/mini-computers that became ancient and the Playstation 9 really does come out? Anyone curious search for the Playstation 9 commercial. It's what we were promised, but maybe next generation. Hope I'm around to play it. Okay, on to reminisce about ninja turtles somewhere and to talk on how kids will be doing the same about FNAF in 30+.

Dude imagine if they made these slightly bigger, they had a full on touch screen, you could make phone calls, browse the Internet and they had camera built into them!!! That would be insane

The only downside with this, we need really good bifocals to use it 😂

Of course!

I guarantee it already does with a little tweaking. It's the same processor family as a number of Gameboy clones as well, so you may be able to get the Gameboy+color+advanced libraries for not much more.

Came with Doom... it was on the preloaded apps

Of course it does. XD

Damn that was exactly what i thought. If it runs doom its worth the money just for the gag of showing it to someone.

Absolutely...!!! Might drive 007 too...???

Was going to say the same thing until I saw this. You’re spot on!

I think the point is, how to write an app and add it to the app launcher. The operating system is key. Is it based on RTOS for example and how does the main loop function.

It's an ESP, so expect grievous errata straight out of the box.

@@arabiccola You can run your own OS like NuttX and Zephyr. However you can also program to bare metal using the ESP-IDF or even Arduino if you want a basic main loop type program

it can do lots

It was actually me

Thank you Tickles for the work you've done.... now what does this thing do?

M5stack

@@chrislive1586main thing is deauthenticating wifi networks

It always snnoyed me when people claimed ”credit card sized”

@@bloodaid*laughs in tesseract

It has 3 dimensions, of which the thickness of the material simply doesn't fit. 2/3 not enough for you? And this comes from people who live in a country where so many people believe in a flat earth :D

credit card sized, not credit card thickness, and is a thick baby

@@pentiumvsamd i’d say: credit card format, not credit card size. I imagine size being all three dimensions, while format is the general footprint.

Usb-c port was the cherry on top

We all heard it quote simp.

@@SamplingPercussionYou mfers really being using words without knowing the meaning huh 😂

you could probably run doom on an ESP32-s3

If the flipper 0 can, this can.

Yes. A. Cardputer. Can. Run. Doom.

Looking for this

I had one in 1983. But mobile phones obliterate that in every respect these days.

I was just thinking about that 😂

​@@angrytedtalks that's what makes this so weird. He said "retails" like it's actually available to buy right now...? For what? For who? Is this for people with flip phones? Do flip phones still exist?

Too bad the keys are 1/10th the size of my pinkies...

​@@brookelord3448Flip phones and candybar phones still exist; they're cheap, functional, & also great to leave in a glovebox/handbag for emergencies and when large amounts of bleeding make using touchscreens impossible.

It still is. That thing is way bigger than a credit card and he ends the video with "and it's only $30" as if that's a good reason to buy something you have no use for.

Really? I feel like Blackberry phones aren't too much bigger and are likely far more capable. This doesn't seem that impressive to me and at 30 bucks, I doubt I would be blown away by any if the features.

To me the $30 price screams some slave child labor built this device. And you can buy it for a cheap price. 😢

I think you mean a few short decades ago? Smartphones have been out for a while now.

@@citypavement PLENTY of people have many uses for this, you dont though so you assume noone does

It actually has two batteries

Literally?!?!!??!

What's the price?

@@quickmake3d22$30 from what i heard

@@quickmake3d22 He says at the end that it retails for $30. You can find it by typing M5Stack Cardputer into Google.

@@quickmake3d22 Currently going for $30 (plus shipping I presume)

@@quickmake3d22he said in the video

That's genuinely amazing.

@@Sigma_Vehnke watches cost thousands. Solution: leggles

Same, except 80s for me.

@@golf-n-guns if either of you were given this tech in either decade you'd probably be billionaires now

@@H31MU7oh phooey

Timex Sinclair... 😁

Yep! Popular mechanics, eat your heart out!

do you have a controls background?

Thank you!

Made the film "landed on the moon".

​@@a-a-rondavis9438definitely didn't have the computing power to do that either...

fact

They could've done it without any computers.

If you believe they landed on the moon then I have a covid vaccine to sell you

You mus get laid daily 🙄

@@aboriginalunderground4958 It has a pre-programmed sample bank built in that is a bit toy sounding but I'm looking at ways it can use custom sounds. The chip is powerful and could be a killer synth chip for mod/s3m/it playback with effects, possibly reprogrammable (firmware is stored with samples in 8mb).

wtf do these do?? Lol

If only there was some diy modular smartphone like this thing, one that could call and stuff

Get the playdate

Price is right for the features.

Should have led with that....

Literally huh?

@@DreamsOfGaruda yeah it’s pretty much busted, can’t get the lower jaw back on the hinges. I think it’s a permanent goner.

@@blazed-space dayum, hope you get better soon x

Try making you jaw Lego compatible, that’s the future anyway

It does run Doom...

It’s not really fair to do a 1:1 comparison but it’s probably safe to say that no device in the world had anything near the computational power of this device until at least the 80s!

@@abetoday Power =/= Bandwidth.. People say this was more powerful than the entire of Mission control.. but you would be hard pressed to connect all those instruments to one.

Some did in fact kill for this

good to know i guess but most people will be using this for fun

right, i'll keep that in mind next time i'm in my cia high security meeting.

The brain is a storage device

@@brunorojas3992 the security violation is mostly that it’s a storage device, but it would be even more questionable because of the extra capabilities. I’m not even saying it’s likely for someone to bring this exact device in, I just mostly mean devices like it. Idk if you’re aware but the U.S. government runs like windows 11 still so they’re highly sensitive to everything that can interact with their computers because they’re just wide open.

@@brunorojas3992damn you’re right

price...

​@@MrFinChart you can buy cheap used Android smartphones for about the same price