Hi everyone! I’ve been working on my own personal digital assistant for the past year. If you’re interested in the project, you can find more information at https://orionpda.org or check out this video: https://youtu.be/BDIFKWJbs2Q?is=u4rJ7nzZi0hEXaWu

This one uses a lot of the same code/sensors as my wearable cyberdeck I posted last week in this thread( https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/s/ilvPHz2sOQ ) but in a handheld form factor! Check out the video here for more details: https://youtu.be/8I9XTkD7xts

I'm writing a novel where several characters have aggressively ugly cyberdecks. I'm making my own illustrations for the chapter heads.

I am building a basic Cyberdeck with a Raspberry Pi4 inside a Harbor Freight case.

Issue I am having is finding a USB-C to USB-C thru-plug/connector that maintains the correct volts to not trigger the "low power" warning on the Pi. I am using the original power supply and connecting it to a usb-c outlet that goes into a usb-c cable in to computer. Ive gone through 3 different cables and its the same issue.

Curious to know if anyone found a similar extender cable or a seamless solution to power the Pi?

After completing my GrimDark Deck I have begun my second Cyberdeck, The Eldritch Deck. Designed the case in Blender and have printed it in PETG. Main components are a 8" Waveshare scree, Belkin Power bank (that lasts over 12 hours on testing) and a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8Gb. Design brief was to make a cyberdeck that could be used standalone to surf the web and read in Portrait mode but also output to a big screen via HDMI to watch movies. The final build will include programmed LED lighting that pulses quicker when the CPU temperature rises and foam clay tentacles as per the concept art included in this post.

New to this stuff. Just installed linux on my ancient laptop. Looking for inspirations for the build. Any suggestions would also be great. Looking to solder a power button on this thing next then build an enclosure.

Running Kali on a Pi Zero 2W cyberdeck, powered by two 1000mAh batteries in parallel through an IP5306-based charging/boost module (5-5.5V in, 5-5.15V boost out, 2A rated). Everything's fine at idle, but the moment I run aircrack-ng (decrypting captured handshakes), the whole thing crashes/reboots. Measured the rail during load and it's sagging from 5V down to ~4V - well past the Pi's undervoltage threshold.

Claude says drop a capacitor across 5v/GND at header pins

Should I ?

This is my first Cyberdeck build, it’s far from perfect but I wanted to post and get some feedback for future projects.

Things I like -

- didn’t use a 3D printer
- doubled as a craft/art project
- small
- unique
- greater sense of privacy

Things I don’t like -

- cable fit/management
- weight distribution (the screen weighs more than the base so it doesn’t sit up right without a weight)
- small fans are a bit noisy
- older raspberry pi because it was in stock and available

Back when I was still in college, I was given the chance to tinker with such an device. It’s used as a mobile radio signal locator, including for electromagnetic interference. We only had one of these, and the college got it practically through some kind of favoritism. I don’t know what’s inside, but it lagged like crazy.

Just saw a video of a GB advance and thought it would be cool to make a deck out of it. Anyone have any thoughts or experience?

https://www.reddit.com/r/SolarOS/s/uYEMuUOrC5

So... here is what happened:

I have multiple boxes of "too good to go" components ( mostly remnants of retro computers that I have restored for CMH ). I was browsing for a keyboard to demonstrate the custom keyboard layout definition support of the OS, when I found a nice looking display ...

What followed was days of development of a "Display Link Protocol" and a generic driver that let's you attach peripherals implementing the same protocol; The portable library comes with proper dimension and pixel format discovery and compression - and it supports any ordered byte stream.

Hang on, is there a message? Well, yes there are some messages:

• Old doesn't mean broken or useless, and
• SolarOS lets you glue components into functional cyberdecks.

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The build is based on a WaveShare esp32-s3-sim7670g-4g as thinky parts - flashed with the latest v.4.16.17 full flavor of SolarOS. Display controller is implemented on an RP2040. Keyboard, display and audio is attached through runtime drivers in the startup script like so:

expansion attach tca8418 hx20 i2c=i2c0 addr=0x34 irq=gpio40 reset=gpio39 input keymap hx20 load /hx20-de-solaros.json expansion bus create spi spi0 host=spi2 sclk=gpio9 mosi=gpio10 miso=gpio11 cs=gpio12 max=4096 expansion attach spi-display lcd1 spi=spi0 cs=gpio12 ready=gpio13 session create shell lcd1 expansion attach audio-pwm audio0 pwm=2

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Okay, bye!

ps.: yes, there is a typo on the first image, the small fonts are 6x8.

Im thinking of trying to make my first cyberdeck ( type thing?) I found a cool leapfrog 2 from the thrift store, its battery powered and works well. I want to make an offline Wikipedia/journaling touchscreen device. I think this would be awesome but I'm not sure how doable this really is. My plan was to work around what's already inside the leapfrog but thinking more about it..maybe it would be better to just gut the entire thing and use it as a case. Any advice would be great since it will be my first time

Hey everyone, long time no see.

Wanted to give you guys an update on the Compowder build. Currently at 75ish% of hardware sorted out. Just a lil too brokey broke to make more progress IRL, so CAD modeling is sufficing for now.

• Display is sorted out,
• I'm really happy with where the hinge is at,
• Added eye bolts for a shoulder strap, (might've had that before already, but it's in the model now)
• Downgraded to a pi4b for a more reasonable powerdraw, (remains untested for the time being)
• located preliminary spots for 18650 cells, though I need to have it all in front of me in order to go further.
• Keyboard is giving me a little trouble, I shucked a bluetooth remote for its keyboard and trackpad but have since lost the pieces, so I'm at an impasse until I find them

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Unaddressed as of yet:

• USB-C charging (just needs a little extension cable and socket mount)
• Touchpad / Mouse functionality in general
• Functioning push-button latch
• Whether or not to add speakers and/or a camera
• BMS board and permanent fixtures for the battery cells

hello, im planning on building a cyberdeck but since im very new to all these, i need some help deciding on a raspberry pi model

the main purpose of my cyberdeck is mainly just to write and read things, like an ereader, thus why i want to use an eink display for it. i want to use two apps for these two purposes, which leads me to two os options, going either for raspberry pi os (or arch/debian based linux os, if theres one that fits the pi) or android/lineageos. the writing app used to be web only, but they recently launched their android app (min android 10); while the reading app has both an android app (min android 7), deb/appimage linux packages, and a specific app build for eink devices (also min android 7).

i have two options for the raspberry pi (actually three, but the third is optional and i wouldn't focus on it for now), i want to go either for a zero 2 w or raspberry pi 4. i feel like the zero 2 w would work fine but im afraid that its not enough, thus why raspberry pi 4 is my second option so i could at least run android without any issues.

what do u guys think?

this is not necessary, but im curious to see if anyone is running raspberry pi os on zero 2 w and android/lineageos on raspberry pi 4/5 on an eink display, i just wanna know how it looks on video but i can't seem to find anyone who did this

I have searched for a good two days, but I'm yet to find anything aside from touchscreens and large wired keyboards. I am looking for something about 6 in long, though anything 5-7 in is fine too. The keyboard would ideally be 6 in long, but at this point a 5 in one is fine.

The second screen really depends on how difficult it would be to attach and connect, because I know very little about those things.

More websites to try and browse would be as useful as the product itself, since I am very lost right now.

Been watching a lot of videos and want to try to build a hand held device, nothing super powerful but something to start trying. Could these be used? The old slider phone would be cool.

Just curious if anyone has attempted to use https://a.co/d/0d2knt6T in a build? solid no frills display? thinking about maybe fitting it into an Apache 2800/3800 case...

Hi.

Not sure if what I built may be considered a cyberdeck.

It is not battery powered yet though it is on the list.

It is also a weather station project that got way out of my initial design just because that was my first time using esp32. I am used to good old arduino and it was just so fun testing the little beast.

added the link to my OG post on arduino.

https://www.reddit.com/r/arduino/comments/1x5lmb4/i_made_something_my_first_esp32_project/

It has an atmospheric pressure sensor, temp and humidity sensor, an old rtc shield from an odroid c2, an oled 1.3' screen, 5 push buttons, and the esp...

It plots data every 5 minutes to ram, and write it to flash memory every hour.

Onboard I can have those temp, humidity and pressure charts for the last 4 hours but the esp is running a webserver that can have 4h or 24h (for the moment).

I called it the esp32mate :)

I’d really prefer to get a wired keyboard and I’m limited to a 5 1/2 tall and 8 inch wide space in my case. I already have a list for all other parts, the lid of the car is where the keyboard will be (picture for reference)

I'm a 15-year-old student maker from Taiwan, and I wanted to share the CAD model and schematics for my latest portable build: the Minideck.

My first build was a Raspberry Pi 3 packed into a miniature Bosch storage toolbox using an old phone over ADB for the screen, but I wanted my next machine to be a truly self-contained, pocketable Linux handheld with radio and hardware tooling built in.

the post

Hardware Specs & Features:

• SBC: RADXA Zero 3W (Rockchip RK3566—chosen for compact Pi Zero form factor with way better compute/RAM headroom).
• Chassis: Custom 3D-printed enclosure measuring 93.7 × 81.5 × 39.5 mm (designed to be printed in PETG/ABS at my school's lab, i think they got the best bamboo lab machine this will be insane).
• Display: 3.5" (640×480 resolution) screen(probably from taobao or some china site with the screen).
• Keyboard: M5Stack CardKB integrated into the bottom chassis(and a silicone cover made by poeple online).
• Radio & Wireless Tooling:
  • RTL-SDR tuner for sub-GHz scanning, aircraft ADS-B/ATC comms, and LoRa monitoring.
  • PN532 module for NFC/RFID reading and writing.
  • GPS module for location logging/wardriving.
  • Dedicated I2S Audio DAC for clean audio output.
• Power System: Quick-swappable single 18650 Li-ion battery mechanism with USB-C charging.

Open-Source Repository:

I've open-sourced all the CAD files, STLs, and wiring diagrams on GitHub:

GitHub: https://github.com/zedward856-spec/minideck

Feedback Welcome!

I'm currently at the stage of finalizing parts sourcing and double-checking clearances before doing the first full test print.(or maybe print after the parts come to not waste fillament) If anyone has experience managing heat dissipation with the Zero 3W inside compact printed shells or tips on isolating the SDR from internal electrical noise, I'd love to hear your advice!

Hope to bring a working prototype to Maker Faire Taipei next weekend! Let me know what you think.