Okay since some people posted pictures of the stickers on their pocket reforms I wanted to post my current lid too 
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I need that clippy sticker so badly, where’d you get it?!
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From my local hacker space I’ll have a look next time I’m there. Maybe there are still some left?
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if you can ask where they bought them that’d be amazing, alternatively if they don’t remember or they’re not available online, and if you’re willing to, message me and i’d like to discuss sending you money to buy and ship one to me.
Don’t know, if it’s “wild” in that sence…
One main usecase for my pocket reform is recording and editing readings for librivox.org.
First of all I like that it’s fan-less and so there is no disturbing noise when recording (…prior to the mnt I used to record on a field recorder). And I’m free to go e.g. in the garden to edit the recordings.
To optimize the pocket reform for that purpose I did some “improvements”:
At first the bluetooth connectivity was weak. I could’t even use a bt headphone. So I installed a second bluetooth/wifi antenna, which indeed was a great improvement.
Then I slightly extended the capacity of the batteries by 25%. I made some holders so that I was able to use larger batteries.
And I use the spare M2 slot for an sd card interface on which I make automated backups of my data.
The pocket reform is the only computer I use (…there are two ancient Thinkpads now on the shelf). Besides recording I use the mnt for all about 3D printing, designing circuit boards (…e.g. for that mic you see in the pic), graphics and of coarse all that daily stuff. And -not to forget- tinkering with linux and the pocket itself!
For some tasks I use a usb docking station with mouse and keyboard and a larger screen.
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It’s my living room laptop. In the evenings, we like to sit and read or do light computer stuff before bedtime. My wife sits on the sofa and I sit on the floor, with the Pocket Reform. With Wifi reception being meh, I’ve switched to an ethernet cable when at home.
The Pocket Reform is also the emergency laptop I bring along on holidays, just in case I need to ssh into my server and block some scraper bots.
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that is an absolute vibe, my Autism is now screaming for Floor Time™, thank you
also blocking scraper bots is so real. i set up an automated AbuseIPDB pull with cron so i wouldn’t have to touch the thing.
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Here is my pocket reform, controlling a dinosaur but incredibly precise melles griot motion stage (nanomotion II).
I am using this for experiments with super resolution imaging. The pocket runs a python script that moves the stage back and forth along 1 dimension to scan the scene. (The camera is slightly tilted so we get a 2 dimensional scan from the 1 dimensional motion)
Currently using a silly chain of dongles: Null modem adaptor, rs232 cable, rs232 usb adaptor, usb-c adaptor.
(I just realized if you zoom in the screen you can see I opened the wrong serial port at first and was talking to the pd or system controller by mistake)
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I have no idea what that means, but it looks and sounds very cool!
Here is a cool result from this data, looking at a 1000 yen note from 3 meters away.
On the left is a very small crop of an image recorded by a regular camera. On the right is the “super-resolution” result, merging 70 images taken while the camera is moving.
I guess I should try this with the MNT reform camera. I have one of those somewhere 
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that is absolutely wicked frickin cool, is there a place you have this setup and software documented? like a git repo? i’d love to do something like this myself since i have some interesting ideas of what could be done with this, and the perspective alone is amazing
Thanks! The software is not released yet but will be. I really hope people will find it useful so that’s great to hear. This is very much work in progress and still needs to be written up….