Whoa! Got the new #ColdCard Q. Never had an early AM delivery out here in the sticks, so that’s cool. Also, I was today years old when I learned the Q has a color screen and a GPU.

This thing is super slick. It even came with a little picture sticker of the device itself.

I had to watch this really well done 1 minute video to identify what’s next to the camera and LED (https://youtu.be/bpV-lrXoZao?si=JnG1l8FxbXwzTcb1). It’s a frickin’ laser beam shooting out of its head, for scanning QR codes. That’s brilliant.

Dual SD card slots (the easy to grab the SD card / semi external kind) plus dual protected sd card storage slots behind the battery cover.

And true to form, there is the “Shoot here” annotation for securely disposing of the secure elements. And as a clever bonus, there are purposefully exposed traces behind the batteries that allow you to take a razor blade and disable USB and NFC.

I haven’t even put a seed on my Q and I’m already in love with this device. Seriously. I haven’t felt this way about a calculator since my TI-82 in 1997.

There are a lot of pricey components stuffed into this thing. And I’m a little surprised at the price. It’s cheap for what you get, presumably possible because of volume discounts on components. You’d spend at least $50 getting all the components for a seed signer and you’d still have to assemble and flash it. And even then you only have an ephemeral seed.

I’m super impressed by the Q. Can’t wait to show it off at the halving party tomorrow! It’s not obvious to me where you could go next with this on a Q2…the Q is very thoughtful and well done nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8!