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@tomscott.com you will absolutely get YouTube comments about this when Ep 23 goes live on YT but that "basically a gaming console" is a Steam Deck and its been wonderful for all sorts of research projects and other uses. I use mine as a mobile network pentest suite among other things

When you are testing things that need to drive, especially autonomously or remotely, it's often cheaper to use off-the shelf hardware like Xbox controllers than to build a bespoke solution. The steam deck cuts out the PC middle-man that's often includes by just being a Linux box with joysticks.

I would have loved for the deck to have been on the market when I was working on the NASA robotics team at my college. We had to move our rover simulator with the arrow keys on a laptop...