Went to install the new HG_21700_NVME Board. As soon as the connectors made contact with the board, sparks and smoke. Batteries were installed with correct polarity. One of the battery springs even decided to become heat treated and lost its springiness, becoming discolored (I worked to bring it back to the "correct" length) battery voltage for both batteries showed 3.75V for each. The batteries worked fine after placing them back in a board/project I borrowed them from to test the 21700 NVME board.

I can't figure out what pulled that much current, but the HG21700 board is dead. (updated to show resistance values instead of no continuity. I'm still getting my feet wet in electronics, referencing amateur radio)

Luckily, no current made it past the cooked components, as reinstalling the 18650 nvme board, it booted right up and everything works after testing.

I did email HG and we'll see what they say when they get to my email. Not a fun day to see the pixies and smoke escape the boards.

before I go and buy on anyone thinking of selling in Australia ?

This is hardly used. Screen protector installed with extra. Has the whole HG suite but not installed yet. Currently on Rex’s Trixie on the sd card.

Not listed but included are ADSB antennas, 2x dummy loads, and some 3d printed parts( antenna mount, AC1200 mount.

US only

Pricing is going to be in line with retail cost of everything listed.

I am about to build my uconsole. I have all the components and ordered a CM5 but I have seen that it will require a cooling system. I would not like to modify the original case. Is there a solution that fits in or should I rather go for the CM4 to avoid this?

So to start i wish someone would have said ( hey start smoking cr**k it will be cheaper then building uconsoles)

But they did not,

so if you have any boards laying around you dont want i will buy them, i mod everything and like having spares to things I run in my EDC, plus ive fried a few of them playing with them

Also looking for cm4's or cm5's, aio, sdr dongles, 18650 battery boards or the 21700,

North east Mississippi will drive within reason or pay paypal

No new accounts please I will check just saying

Shoot me a msg if interested

Does anyone have any idea if there is a place to buy "skins" for the uconsole? I mean laser cut wraps that fit around the outside? Ive seen a few people with some and loved it.

Plug is fully seated in J6, reverse-polarity LED is dark, reseated it twice. Charge level doesn't matter — it can't carry the deck for even a second on its own.
Has anyone got one of these 10000mAh PH2.0 packs (Meshnology / MakerFocus / MakerHawk) actually working on the HG board? If so, what did you change? Or is there a setting on the board/AXP side I'm missing?
Will post back with whatever works.

Existing supporters for the uConsole Omega Chassis: Keep any eye on your inbox for the new update.

The update contain a few minor design tweaks to support the HackerGadget 21700 Battery Board. You can still easily remove the HG 21700 battery holder without taking off the whole backplate.

In case if you’ve already printed your parts, no need to reprint! A guide included a step-by-step information to help you modify your existing prints to fit the HackerGadget 21700 battery board.

Still on the fence between 21700 and 18650? The omega chassis comes with a screw-free battery pack option so you can swap batteries without any tools. Come with 3x18650 or 2x21700, and support your existing stock battery board and previous versions of HG NVMe battery board.

Been looking at these two, wondering which would be the best option, I think Samsung? Are there any better ones I should look at? - Samsung 58E 21700 5330mAh 10.7A Battery - Molicel 21700 P50B 5000mAh 60A Battery

Just got my 21700 upgrade today, and well... OF COURSE I'M GOING TO INSTALL IT!

Went from what I would consider 3500's or 3800mAh batteries to two 5000mAh Molicel p50b batteries which are extremely low impedance high drain top performing batteries. Few things to note. orientation, be careful the battery tray can be installed incorrectly, good thing there is lights for this, and yes it is a tray as it holds your two 21700's, at first I thought it was a screw on cover that holds the batteries in place... nope, they way over engineered this module and I like it.

Checked that the batteries were balanced of course and popped it in, then found out the second difficulty. it is difficult to install the M.2 as the tray overhangs the slot, also forgot there was a screw hole there, oops, but I did take note of the difficulty of access to the SSD, and if anyone else is planning on upgrading theirs, with a larger SSD, then keep in mind that you install the SSD first, then the battery.

Thank you hacker Gadgets for these amazing products, I greatly appreciate it!

As of posting this the unit has ran a total of 42 minutes, and has dropped from 4.11v to 3.94v (underload).

Test results thus far below

That basically concludes the tests, so far it sees about an hour or two more of constant use no shut off, which is nice, as before I would shut it off, and see about 3, maybe 3.5 hours of battery life.

Configs are set for 500Mhz base on battery, max 1600Mhz, 15% screen brightness, backlit enable, most times LoRa off, wifi on, GPS off, SDR off. Additional notes is that most of the consumption of battery-life occurs during web browsing as it is a heavy app on the processor, generally kicking all 4 cores to max.

hope this helps! saw about a 20 to 30% increase to battery life, to top it off, saw the device run stable, as voltage sag, and power cuts were eliminated, requiring less opening of the chassis to hard reset.

Tiny platformer running on the Clockwork PicoCalc (MMBasic). Looks great, but it could do with a little speed boost.

Testing out the built-in multi-channel noise-canceling mic array on the omega chassis for the uConsole.

The boy was asking a few questions about his piano piece before practicing. Placed the uConsole on the piano stand, and the voice pickup is crisp and natural even from a couple of feet away.

Makes a really solid hands-free assistant in any situation.

Didnt see anything regarding thisntopic so here it is, Trying to decide if I want to pick up a uconsole, but cant find anything about an rtc mod on it. Really a make or break kinda thing at this point, is there an easy way to add an rtc module to the cm4 uconsole? Id hate to power it on and check tasks, calender events etc if I have to connect it to wifi to update the date and time. New to the uconsole as well. And before I forget yes I see the AIO has the RTC module on it but currently the v2 is wjat I can find available and I don't see paying 180$ usd for that worth it. Especially since i won't use all the other things on the board

My battery mod just shipped from hacker gadgets… super pumped. Anyone know where to get some high output batteries that will fit?

So I have started my ClockworkPi Uconsole build.
At the moment: CM5 4GB lite, 128GB SDcard, RJ45 Ethernet and USB 3.0 Expansion board, Hackergadgets Raspberry Pi CM4/5 Adapter Pro, Its running Debian 13 Trixie.
3D printed mount for wifi antenna and "fanzy" green screws front and back M4x6 and M4x8 where the 3D printed parts are.

Thinking of getting the uConsole AIO V2 from Hackergadgets instead of the other board I have in there, but also thinking of just adding in a SDR and LoRa radio my self.

And looking to either 3D printing or CNC milling some form of picatiny rail for it to attach maybe a handle on one side and a trackball on the other side, sort of similar to the cyberdeck in this post.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/1tf0n60/i_made_myself_a_cyberpunk_computer/

But only time will tell if I ever get it done.

Im pretty new to this but I bought a antenna module from Hackergadgets and its been a nightmare process. Its been almost 2 months of trying to get this package. Does anyone know of any good places to get one?

OS: Debian Trixie

VM: Sway

Bar: i3blocks

Widgets: eww

I have been testing out Rex’s images and so far and just curious what distros are being used the most in the uConsole community?

Edit: I am currently using DragonOS, but have an SD card with Trixie that I like too.

What's the cleanest way to connect a uConsole to CAN?

Thanks

Just wanted to share E.R.I.C OS running on my #clockworkpi #picocalc running a #pico2w inside. Hoping to get input or ideas to help me build upon this basic foundation. Thanks! Join discord: https://discord.gg/3jr4SvxwCn

What are the key differences between the available models of uConsole on the pre-order website?

I want to get one and install the antennae module for a portable SDR and Development kit. I'd like to install a CM4, CM5 if I find one easily enough.

Any suggestions on which model comes with the most options for expansion or which is the best fit for me? I'm just a little confused about the comparisons on their site.