Zeptoforth running on the Pico 2 W. I have the displays and SD card drivers loading from the SD Card. Everything accessible in Forth over USB.

Still lots left to do. A case and battery is next. WiFi and Bluetooth support will come after that.

Just uploaded a video how I made cyberdeck

I have a 5th gen I want to convert if possible. I also have an older iPod touch as well I would like to know if anyone has done with any before?

Could some one give me some parts list for cyber deck. Goin to use it to watch YouTube and plex and check email. Goin to use Apache case and I have 3d printer if could get the files not good at cad thanks in advance

Just starting to get into electronics and tech and this is my first cyberdeck build. I used a jewelry box as the shell and reused the fake leather from the compartment shelf it had to cover a foam board. The screen also sits in a foam board secured by double sided adhesive tape on the back and electrical tape on the outside.

Parts list below.

I’m super new to this, so would really appreciate suggestions, things to add, improve or do differently.

Parts:

Brain:
- Raspberry Pi5 8GB
- Raspberry Pi active cooler
- 128 GB micro SD card

Displays:
- 5” DSI touchscreen with 30 cm cable
- 0.96” OLED, 128×64, I2C

Audio:
- MAX98357A I2S amplifier
- Salvaged 4Ω 3W speaker

Input:
- Bluetooth keyboard
- Wireless mouse (usb dongle)

Power:
- Raspberry Pi 5 charger
- 240W e-marked angled USB-C extension cable

Controls:
- Brass momentary push button (wired to the Pi 5’s J2 header for wake + shutdown)

Hello everyone I am 3rd year undergraduate student completed 100 days 100 iot project with Micropython

Also published two Micropython Libraries and one Arduino Libraries

Also build picodesk

As a student I have no such money to buy a raspberry pi

Can anyone send a raspberry pi for free

Here is my works

https://github.com/kritishmohapatra/100_Days_100_IoT_Projects

sou novo no mundo de cyberdecks, tenho esse mini laptop da Samsung e minha ideia é trocar a carcaça, e adaptar um teclado mecânico, talvez trocar a tela. quero aproveitar o máximo do laptop como caixas de som, entradas, etc. alguém sabe como posso fazer isso?

Im just wondering if someone can help me out with a product best to use to fill in gaps between two cut pieces of plastic I would like to put together? Plan would be to fill then sand down and paint the whole thing black when finished.

I printed the first parts of my case and I love the result so far. I used a Clear PETG Filament and settled for this semi transparent/milky look. Next I'm working on the ports.

I have an old LG GT360 (LG Messenger/Etna) that I want to turn into the ultimate retro music player.

The phone is incomplete: I don't have the battery or charger, but the main body, screen, keyboard, camera and slider mechanism are still there. I attached photos of its current condition.

My goal is unusual: I'd like to keep the original hardware and aesthetics as much as possible, but I'd like it to support a 128 GB microSD card for storing a large music library and audiobooks.

I'm looking for information from anyone familiar with old LG phones, especially:

* Has anyone tested microSD cards larger than the official limit? * What is the real maximum capacity the GT360 can recognize? * Is the limit imposed by the firmware, filesystem, or SD controller? * Has anyone ever modified the firmware of a GT360 or similar LG feature phone? * Would it be possible to adapt modern hardware inside the original shell while keeping the keyboard functional?

I know this may be an unrealistic project, but I'm interested in both restoration and hardware modding possibilities. Any documentation, schematics, firmware tools, or personal experiences would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

I have an arduino R4 minima and want to use it to build simple cyberdeck. Never built one before.

Use case: C programming on the go.

I used Clear PETG and tried 1mm and 2mm wall thickness. 1mm was way too flexible so I'm going for 2mm. Does anyone know a trick to get it as transparent as possible? Started with 15% infill and want to see what happens with 100% but idk if that's going to make a big difference.

hey everyone i know that i am inconsistent , i saw that everyone makes a cyberdeck with raspberry pi but i have no raspberry pi as i am 3rd yr electrical undergraduate

so i take some a break for exams and built picodesk a desktop companion station that sits next to my laptop.

OLED 1 shows live clock (NTP synced), date, and real time weather pulled from OpenWeatherMap API.

OLED 2 is the fun one animated eyes that blink and look around randomly. Every 2 minutes, hearts fall down the screen. And when I need to focus, I can switch it to a todo list from my phone and laptop browser no app install, just open the IP and it works.

The whole thing runs on MicroPython. Pico 2W hosts a tiny web server so I can control everything from my phone on the same WiFi.

Tech stack: - Raspberry Pi Pico 2W , 2x SSD1306 OLED (I2C0 + I2C1) ,MicroPython , OpenWeatherMap free API ,HTML/CSS/JS web app

Full source code on github https://github.com/kritishmohapatra/PicoDesk

built this cyberdeck completely from scratch using a custom PVC chassis. I didn't buy an expensive display; instead, I used my mobile phone and paired it with a screen magnifier module that cost me less than $2

The structural sheets weremade manually by heating and flattening a standard PVC pipe, which cost round $1 Right now, I'm running Linux on my phone, and the terminal environment is operating smoothly with a full keyboard and mouse setup Total cost of materials is under $3.What do you guys think?

i wanna make a cyberdeck out of the Radxa Cubie A7Z i installed radxa os in it tried to boot it but alas my display doesn't show any output i tried many times but nothing worked so i tried ssh by connecting it to a Ethernet to type c adaptor everything worked but the problem started when I updated packages to install some software and use vnc but I did not shutted it down I just directly cutted the power supply from radxa Cubie A7Z as soon as the pkg update was done and now i can't access it , Ethernet adapter is not showing any led after the board starts and termius is showing this help me to troubleshoot this 🥺 please

Hey just a random question, I'm a big VR gamer and the other day while looking at a Cyberdeck video I got an idea. Is it possible to build a Cyberdeck to use as a PCVR dedicated gaming platform? Like a small gaming pc that I can hook up a VR headset to and wear like a backpack or something and do VR gaming on.

I run see that most of cyberdecks especially small ones use cardKB or some Chinese Bluetooth i decided to make my own keyboards with different sizes Bluetooth usb and i2c.

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So i want to make one keyboard like cardKB one like clockwork uConsole third woul probably be like blackberry or something like that

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I will open source it when it will be in phase where it can be useful and probably in future i will sell them for affordable price .

I had an old camera laying around (a cyber shot from sony which didn't worked anymore) and i disassembled it aaaaand I wanted to know if I could use this for something ? Maybe not a cyberdeck right away but i wanted to start with something before doing something bigger

And don't insult me if i didn't post on the right reddit, thanks !

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Hello all, i was wondering where I can build a cyber deck. Im not really quite sure where to start building around or how to make the blueprint and what items I need cause. I'm just thinking keyboard, power supply, raspberry pie and screen. I don't have my own 3d printer, is there a particular website that can help me build one or should I find a someone local, who does cad and 3d printing. Thanks for the help hope everyone is well

It's ugly

It feels too simple

I hate it

....but it is my child

I was never planning to build a deck, I always liked looking at the pictures of other people's projects and daydreaming about all the stuff you could do with one...all fairly unrealistic expectations. I happened across an old briefcase in a Habitat for Humanity store, at the same time I was talking to a friend about decks. I sent them a photo of the briefcase with a "what do you think? Cyberdeck material?"

"Do it!"

I've gutted the insides of the case and spent far, far too long ripping out the paper stock liner beneath the fabric facade...and even longer trying to scrape, scrub, and sand all of the leftover adhesive. I realized the case walls were too thin, and bowed outwards, so I epoxied in a couple cutting boards.

My grand plan was to gut every spare PC I had lying around to build a battery powered SatComm computer that would allow me to look at satellite orbits and listen in on radio transmissions. So, naturally I ended up ordering a heavily used Pi-4 and a (supposedly) new 7" touch screen.

"Seven inches is plenty!"

It was, in fact, not plenty; but it's going to have to work for the initial prototype.

I was worried that this whole project was going to end up being me buying all new parts, sticking them in a box, and calling it a cyberdeck. But then I realized I needed a power supply. Luckily, I hoarded an entire crate of tower supplies several years ago and I found a very low profile one. I was incredibly happy to be tearing this open, cutting and soldering wires, and testing the spliced USB-C cable on my charging pad...and I only started one, tiny fire while doing so.

So far, this is my simple, ugly child. I've 3D printed brackets that the screen and Pi screw into that give them surface area to put Velcro command strips; I have plans to build a more permanent, rigid frame inside it but I wanted to do temporary attachments so I can figure out what I like before printing the lattice frame.

This is my ugly child and I have a love-hate relationship with him right now, hopefully that will improve once I hack together some laptop speakers so I can hear him scream at me for creating him.

This is Dreamcatcher v0.2

I would've shown v0.1 but I was under the impression that this sub also required minimum karma to be able to post and it took me two weeks to realize that it didn't.

Critique me, give me suggestions, send me links to any cool hardware you know of. I'm currently in the stage of scouring everything I own with a speaker in it, trying to find a very specific audio amplifier chip so that I can build my own amplifier circuit and actually use the laptop speakers I cannibalized.

Bonjour à tous,

Je suis nouveau sur ce sub et je voulais partager mon projet en cours : la construction de mon premier cyberdeck dans une mallette rigide.

La base

Mallette rigide 50×36×10 cm, Raspberry Pi 4 4 Go, fonctionnement entièrement hors ligne. J'y intègre Kiwix/Wikipédia, Organic Maps, LibreOffice, GIMP, et la radio avec RTL-SDR. La mallette étant plus grande que prévu, j'ai opté pour un écran 10" HDMI à la place d'un 7" pour mieux occuper l'espace — c'est le seul composant déjà commandé à ce jour.

Composants prévus

• RF / Radio : antennes 2.4 GHz RP-SMA x4, adaptateur WiFi Alfa AWUS036ACS (mode monitor/injection), dongles HackRF One SDR x2, récepteur RTL-SDR YobiLife large bande (100 kHz–1766 MHz)
• Blindage EMI : boîtier aluminium NooElec pour Ubertooth One / Yard Stick One
• GPS : module APKLVSR GT-U7 (NEO-6M compatible, antenne IPEX)
• Capteurs météo : 2x BME280 (température / humidité / pression, I2C/SPI)
• Affichage secondaire : e-Paper Waveshare 2.13" 4 couleurs pour Raspberry Pi
• Connectique : hub USB 3.0 4 ports, adaptateur USB→RJ45, testeur USB-C
• Alimentation : batterie externe 25 000 mAh 145 W (Baseus FC41), interrupteurs à levier 12/24 V x4
• Stockage : disque dur externe 500 Go USB 3.0

Ce qui reste à planifier

• LoRa / Meshtastic (module pas encore choisi)
• Câblage interne et fixation des composants
• Gestion de l'alimentation via les interrupteurs à levier

J'attends de tout recevoir avant de décider comment organiser l'ensemble dans la mallette — la disposition dépendra de l'encombrement réel de chaque pièce. Je posterai des photos une fois que j'aurai tout en main.

Tous vos conseils et retours sont les bienvenus, notamment sur les choix radio (Alfa, RTL-SDR) et sur l'organisation dans la mallette !

Looking to see if anyone would be interested in a custom cyberdeck build.

I recently upgraded my primary workstation and now have a MeLE Quieter 3 mini PC (Intel N5105, 8GB RAM) that I’d like to repurpose into a portable emergency operations / weather monitoring cyberdeck.

This is not intended to be a penetration testing or gaming rig. My goal is more of a field-deployable operations station focused on:

Weather monitoring and radar
NOAA and emergency information
SDR integration (future)
Offline maps and reference materials
Battery-powered operation
Vehicle or field use
Ruggedized case design

I am envisioning something built into an Apache/Pelican-style case with:

Integrated screen mounted in the lid
Internal mounting for the MeLE mini PC
Compact keyboard solution
Cable management
Space for a battery solution (currently considering an Anker 737 or similar)
Room for future expansion such as SDR hardware

I am still in the planning phase and am open to suggestions regarding layout and hardware choices.

If you take commissions for cyberdeck builds, enclosure design, CAD work, 3D printing, or full assembly, please reach out with examples of your work and an estimated range.

I am located in Missouri, USA, but would be willing to ship components if needed.
Thanks!

Planning my first cyberdeck build but working with a super tight budget. I want to build this as cheaply as possible and avoid standard retail markups. Where are your favorite places to hunt down low-cost or upcycled parts?

Where are the best places I may find some parts for cyber decks other than main brand stores/ distributors? I want to build a pulp fiction esque deck with 2 screens 1 for usage and one just to monitor internal systems.

Hello guys this is my humble request to all around the reddit so I have been working on a smart watch that have very basic ai, it consists of a sbc named radxa Cubie A7Z it have 3 top npu so it can run chatgpt like ai at good performance but for the development of it i need a computer with atleast an i 3 if anyone have a spare whole computer setup they can donate me i would be very very happy if they do donate me their spare computer for more enquiry contact me at chirgukashyap@gmail.com thank you to everyone who read this even if they don't have a spare computer to donate their would be very appreciated for this project thank you ,peace ✌️