Sylwester (DatanoiseTV on GitHub) is pulling forgotten hardware out of the parts bin and getting it running on current software. He is bringing the Next Thing Co. PocketCHIP back from the drawer of dead electronics with a current mainline Linux kernel, current U-Boot, and a properly small OpenWrt userspace you can actually ssh into. A C.H.I.P. computer (Allwinner R8 — a  sun5i  rebadge of the A13, single Cortex-A8, 512 MiB DDR3, 4 GiB SLC NAND, RTL8723BS WiFi+BT, AXP209 PMIC) mounted on the PocketCHIP daughterboard that adds a 4.3″ 480×272 LCD with resistive touch, a tactile QWERTY membrane keyboard, a LiPo battery and a USB-A host receptacle. Next Thing Co. went bankrupt in 2018. Their kernel was a 3.4 BSP fork. The original Debian image was Jessie. Years of bitrot later, the parts bin version still boots its original firmware — and is otherwise inert.…