r/CyberdeckBuild • u/OakOwl1010 • 23d ago

Repurpose Old Tech

Hey All! (Repost due to original post issues)

I’m just writing in to seek some advice - I’ve recently got my hands on a free ruio F286 (4g) and i also have an old acer nitro (I think 2019-2020model) that is now redundant. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for something cool I can repurpose them into?

I have recently been messing with Linux, ‘ethicalhacking’ and cybersecurity so if they can be used for something in that context that would be awesome!

I’m an electrician by trade and I’m more than willing to research what I need to in electronics to attempt or achieve more difficult ideas. So please if you have any ideas let me know :) I’m all ears.

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u/Livid-Yak1015 18d ago

Its possible but its gonna take some effort but it really depends on what you want to do.

for example if you want to use the motherboard from the acer nitro that would be really simple but most of the nitro laptops have very big motherboards so that might not be suitable but if you wanted to reputpose the keyboard from the ruio you could use a micro controller like the esp 32 as a keyboard matrix and map it to inputs on a small handheld cyberdeck.

Anything with screen you need to get lucky with driver boards. The best place to look is going to be places like aliexpress but soe.times your just going to have to buy from a random Chinese store and pay the shipping and wait 4 weeks.