DIY RaspberryPi Cyberdeck

[@Whipster-Old]

Love this design, and the reference to Ono Sendai. Watch out for Black ICE!

[@MysticWhiteDragon.]

Since the Official Raspberry Pi Touch Screen is a touch screen, what about making one of the 5 buttons as a switch that toggles on and off an onscreen keyboard?

[@joedew4183]

that whould make it more of a tablet

[@GreywolfZX42]

I noted the off-set handle right away and I thought that is an awesome design element.

[@pacoaraujo]

It looks amazing, I would add a object recognition button, so when pressed it would open the camera feed to recognize certain cool objects or persons or pets.

[@Davedarko]

A cyberdeck without mechanical keyboard? Is that even legal?

[@Davedarko]

Hey @Vince ! Always here to watch a DJ video ;) thanks, hope it will be soon enough!

[@MrVolt]

Ha, I thought about this a lot for the build, but what's more punk? Following the crowd or doing your own thing eh?

[@DeputatKaktus]

No, not having a mechanical keyboard on this is actually highly illegal. Mech Keeb with aviation connectors should be standard for this. :) Edit: I suggest an Alpha28 or a Corne. (If split keebs are not your thing, any Planck style keeb should be fine.)

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

Is legality a factor in designing a cyberdeck?

[@strykertron232]

Screw you, imma use a cannibalized blackberry keyboard

[@BeOurBee]

I think for a portable device, the rocker-type power switch should be recessed so an accidentally misplaced grip doesn't kill the power.

[@tylerbowling]

In Camera mode, those buttons could easily be used for zoom in, zoom out, capture, delete and return (or back up). It would also be fun to have a slider for zooming as well.

[@SatansLtlBaby]

banana plugs should double with a switch as alternate power source for the device. take in 5v from a bench top power supply.

[@NiHaoMike64]

There's already 5V input and output in the form of USB, better to have the banana jacks connected to the battery with a PTC for overcurrent protection in order to use it to charge external batteries or power the device from external batteries.

[@killapoof]

That cyberdeck could be an interesting platform for ROS robotics development and control

[@richdegenhardt]

One of the cooler projects I've seen on the channel in awhile! Would be really fun (and borderline absurd) to make a version with one of those tiny water cooling kits and expose a bit of the loop externally for that extra cyberpunk feel (though I imagine it would consume quite a bit more power). Also, exposing the raspberry pi I/O externally would be a nice touch. Would love to see a version 2.0 in the future!

[@MrVolt]

Thanks Rich! I'll definitely be up to update and mod this. I love the idea of an exposed cooling loop. Totally weird and impractical, which means it's perfect!

[@ChrisLeeW00]

Watching this cyberfilm on my cyberphone.

[@JimVanderveen]

Awesome build, DJ!

[@yusufabdalla1106]

you are too underrated that it hurts. love u

[@Fishcrab]

Very cool. In terms of aditions, maybe a prototyping board thats like mounted flush with the outer surface of the device perhaps? Or atleast access to the pi's unused ports.

[@ChipsAndWires]

I enjoyed this project! This would look great with a Drop ALT keyboard connected using a cloth-covered coiled cable.

[@DavidFarrellEastBay]

OMG That was soo much fun to watch - Thanks for sharing !

[@Dorff_Meister]

Use them as buttons for media pause/play/next/back, etc? Since you are boom boxing it...

[@MrVolt]

Great idea! I'll have to come up with little transparency inserts for the buttons.

[@delicacydelight]

Hot key buttons; When you press a specific button; It performs a predefined task, like launching a media player; It also announces what it did or will do. For example, it says, "Launching the media player." Other buttons; oscilloscope, multimeter, EPROM programmer, Ir remote. ESP32 LoRa Repeater Node - Meshtastic text messenger.

[@LouisCYUL]

Battery says Li-Ion and charger says LiPo, is the charger compatible nonetheless? For the buttons: one of them could trigger some modem sounds through the speaker, to get your cyberbrain into cyberspace 😎

[@TheRealJavahead]

One of those latched push buttons could toggle between Molly’s SimStim rig and cyber space for the SenseNet run.

[@billkillernic]

For me a cyberdeck should have 2 things 1) be open and not confined by hardware of software blobs 2) I/O, I/O, I/O It needs to be able to interact with EVERYTHING or close to everything if possible from wiring a card and interact with an ATM machine to be able to wire it to some manufacturing device and cotrol it or to controll a car wirelessly with it etc.

[@technomage7282]

DUDE Love The Case I would buy that case

[@xKatjaxPurrsx]

Cool build! Since you asked... probably the first mod if it's going to be the "go-to pi dev platform" would be a quicker way to get at the guts than 13 screws. Like at a minimum I think i could have imagined a grove along the back that the rear plate could slide into and then just a screw or two keeping it from sliding back out, or maybe even some type of carrier for the pi and the breadboard with an edge connector for the essential connections so that the pi/breadboard could slide into the case through a hatch in the side like some kind of unholy sony memorystick (yeah that's redundant). I guess the upside to the carrier/edge connector paradim is that would open up the possibility of also having pi/stripboard modules because breadboards are awful. Come to think of it, this sounds like a Pi Compute Module project :)

[@dafoex]

The speaker is right by your ear, so going with the boombox theme maybe your buttons could be transport controls for music? You said they were latching, though, so maybe not...

[@JrknightJr]

Incredible

[@RedMageGaming]

Single Battery is having trouble putting out enough amperage and is losing voltage as a result, so a second one in parallel might mitigate that as it wouldn't draw as much of each individually but still have the same voltage and keep nominal voltage better, also increased capacity as a bonus. Plenty of space inside to accommodate this as well I think. As for the buttons, having them linked to some macros to switch to different operating modes would be interesting. Camera mode, browser mode, coding mode, etc. Looks great though.

[@niniliumify]

FWD, RWD, PLAY ON THREE BUTTONS. Other two used in binary to logically change the other three. Now you have 12 buttons!

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

This is very very cool. The one change I'd make is making the battery holder accessable from a hatch or something so you could swap out batteries without disassembling the thing. No need for fast charging if you can just carry one or two backup batteries in your pocket (in a case, safety first) 😁

[@faultyinterface]

Oh wow, I've been working on a project similar to this for a few months now.

[@arthurdent8091]

If you are going to use it for music, I would have added a second speaker, a headphone jack, perhaps a bigger battery, and for a challenge use a Pi Pico instead of a Pi 4.

[@Joshlul]

The buttons should do tiling in tmux or if you choose to run a window manager (not in the spirit imo) in like i3 or something. - assign one as the shift key (probably bottom) - first moves horizontally, first plus shift tiles horizonally - second vertically thats all i got so far

[@fuzzybat23]

One way to remove the low power is use two batteries and a buck converter to downgrade the 6.whatever volts down to 5.15. I use buck converters on loads of pi projects. Using one to power a retropie suitcase system with a milwaukee portable drill 18v battery.

[@NiHaoMike64]

Adjust the 5V supply up to 5.2V, that dramatically cuts down on the undervoltage warnings.

[@adam.e2154]

Mr. Volt? Didn't expect to see you here.

[@gregorysmith3097]

Nice build, my only issue would be it's backwards. I'd want to hold the handle with my left hand while working on it with my right. ;)

[@nmjerry]

It needs an 8 track tape player

[@alfblack2]

Oh i love it. Definitely idea worthy of a remix. Now I want to build a pipboy and a cyberdeck (holser mounted). And get them communicating with some sort of PAN. Hmm. How to make a HUD faceshield. hehehe

[@Breto151]

What is the model of the latching buttons you used?

[@MrVolt]

There's a complete BOM for the build in the community link in the description. Cheers! Although, I will admit that these came from my surplus button collection, but I was able to find a comparable model to list.

[@Breto151]

@@MrVolt Thanks. The reason I ask is I have looked for these types of illuminated latching switches before but they all said automotive use and needed 12v for the light. I didn't know if they would even light with only 3.3v or 5v off of a Pi/Arduino. I looked these up on Newark but they don't say for the light but if you have them working then I guess they are good.

[@stapuft]

id build one into a ser of VR goggles the kind you can get for cheep and slot your phone in, just use a raspberry pi and an appropriate sized screen....id also add a pair of cameras so i guess it wold be more AR than VR, or i guess a combo of the two? that way you can "jack in" to "the matrix" for real, by playing VR games, (simple ones, or cloud streamed ones from a more powerful computer) or using a VR office space, whatever.

[@EvilSpyBoy]

I was reading a thing the other day and did a hookup on a raspberry pi zero to put a momentary switch to pin 3 + gnd to invoke some shutdown code + it also wakes up the pi. What is the downside of that? I did make a gps puzzle box with an arduino ages ago that used a circle that would be able to cut power with a single pin that I wish I could still find.... but just wondering

[@MrVolt]

The only downside is that's more of a soft "safe" shutdown that will prevent corruption of the filesystem on the SD card, but the Pi will still be drawing power since none of the boards have the built-in hardware to actually fully turn off their own power supply, so that still has to be done with external circuitry or just a switch to cut all power usage.

[@fsecofficial]

It’s a cool case but where’s your keyboard. I don’t get this trend because the power of the raspberry pi is it doesn’t need all the peripherals and can simply be connected to the same network.

[@ruangskuyinterior3280]

great idea

[@ttyler77414]

Buttons should be media controls

[@willSmitt9710]

Projeto incrivel

[@missedinformation7068]

Does it make pizza bits?

[@mariocordovasanchez8699]

Can you build something like a steam deck but with a mechanic keyboard in the back side? that will be THE portable computer

[@element14presents]

That would be a new challenge in touch typing.

[@nickloss2377]

over 10K total views, only 400 people have clicked like/dislike... that's just lazy, people!

[@jjeshop]

No hardware keyboard? Not a cyberdeck.

[@nuke1898]

Nice

[@ramennoodle5034]

I want itttttttttt💕

[@NostromoDuex]

De-wireless a very small wireless keyboard by powering off the Bananas because... it'll look cool probably

[@jamesowens16]

When I hear of a cyberdeck I think of Shadowrun

[@jamesowens16]

@@CoruscationsOfIneptitude The Sega Genesis version was pretty cool for its time between it and the novels is where I started

[@jamesowens16]

@@CoruscationsOfIneptitude In the 90's and had a reboot in '05

[@EverettVinzant]

How about, “Let’s jack in” to get started? It’s meant to be a cyber deck, something meant to help you get on-line... and you didn’t include an RJ-45 for a network connection? I see, you wanted to leave some challenge for us to personalize our decks...

[@Ruslan.88266]

You should call it Steve.

[@Santor-]

One button def to start music player.

[@MartinBrabi]

great project, but I miss keyboard

[@element14presents]

We really need to break away from the typewriter.

[@MultiGoldensilver]

Would have been better with a touchscreen

[@zcsays8382]

man dude thats a dope portable computer u built. iv got one to. mine can make calls n watch youtube n stuff. it also fits in my pocket. some ppl call em cellphones.

[@kemonoyama2084]

a cyber deck is not just a portable PC...

[@DeputatKaktus]

1 "Cyber" = 1 Shot :-D

[@dgm778]

alien isolation

[@Wilhuf1]

Hello, chummer.

[@galaxophone]

Big buttons are for quickhacks, duh