u/Mean-Career-6509

i'm a noob, this is my first project. i did get UART working but all i got was the boot sequence. i wasn't able to do anything, that i could figure out, with the information i got. alternatively i did find an update file from an old car chat site, but its been hard decoding it. my hope is to write my own update file to... i don't know... rewrite the software? i'm not even sure how much i can unlock on this thing. it has an sd slot, bluetooth, and wifi. i'm hoping it could be a simple pda, but i have my doubts. any advice would be awesome.

Any ideas for a parts list? I know m5stack has a few hmi input devices like joysticks, but I don't know enough about what's compatible or what might need it's own esp32 controller to talk with the cardputer.

I was trying to do the whole lipo battery hack and messed up big time. I was to excited and impatient. It took me months to save for this thing. I should have just waited until I could get a real battery.

edit for clarity: I wasn't soldering. I 3d printed a shell for a small lipo battery and attempted to use it in the device while the DC charger was connected. why? the lipo I have was dead, from another project. I just needed a battery in the device so the charger would work to run the player. I think I had the leads swapped or something because it got hot and smelly. what you've seeing isn't a wire soldier to the positive lead, it's the melted plastic that holds the positive springy bit.

any advice or input of any kind is much appreciated. i had a line to prevent it from breaking if a player tried to input something not on the list, like "banana" or something, and it was work perfectly, but when i went to test it this morning before posting the line was broken and i don't understand why. so i had to remove it. so as long as you don't try to confuse it or misspell anything (my biggest sin) it should run fine. I've only been coding for about a month so I'm pretty proud that this thing works at all.

edit: i guess i'm stupid for thinking that adding the link would make it available to anyone who wanted it .

[link to .py](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lo2mEN0IGGN7BUXF50sQdgGXh\_ZOylPY/view?usp=sharing)

I used my old cat s62, a knockoff rii keyboard (the only part I had to buy "new") a wireless charging pad (it wouldn't fit without interfering with the hinges so I took it out of the shell and taped it on), a USB hub from the thrift store, and a solar charging battery bank I had laying around.

I installed termux, then install Ubuntu in termux, then install xfce4 in Ubuntu. I knew nothing about Linux or anything of the sort but this taught me so much. I'm excited to start practicing more and learning Python on this thing.