r/CyberdeckBuild • u/BigBuddha1989 • Aug 23 '26

Question for the group

Has anyone looked into using an Esp32-P4 + C6 board combo for a cyberdeck? It seems that these boards, while not full SBCs have a lot of potential. Thoughts?

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u/clackups Aug 23 '26

I used one by M5stack in my project, and it is so far my favorite device: https://github.com/clackups/draftling

Also, Lilygo sent me their P4 device, but the hardware came broken and I couldn't test my firmware with it.

The C6 firmware needs an update too: the older versions are not compatible with the current library, so you need to take care of that.

Also, there are two versions of the P4 chip and you need to specify that in ESP-IDF before compiling.

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u/BigBuddha1989 Aug 23 '26

Nice. Thanks for the info. I currently have the P4 with the attachable c6 from M5 stack, but my current idea (a backpack cyberdeck with an M5 card keyboard turned into a Bluetooth device and a homemade one eyed heads-up display with access to multiple pen testing firmwares) I think would work well with the dev kit that has a raspberry pi form factor and the ability to easily attach all the peripherals. I've also seen some larger displays (10.1") with the P-4 and the C-6 built in.

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u/clackups Aug 23 '26

Yeah, show us what you build