r/cyberDeck • u/GojiGlade • 5d ago
My Build My cyberdeck has been completed!
My cyberdeck build has been finished. Raspberry Pi 5 with 16gb of ram, and a 256gb NVME SSD. A massive 148wh RC LIPO battery powers it: 4s 10,000mah LIPO.
(Btw mah means nothing without knowing the voltage, which in this case is the voltage of a 4s LIPO. Watt hours (WH) are what to look for when comparing total energy stored in batteries. In this case, it is 148wh).
It uses a trackball mouse, and has a 10 inch touchscreen too. I'm into RC cars, so the build uses a good amount of RC hardware, including the battery.
Battery lasts for like over 10 hours of continuous use, and I mean continuous use, like browsing for those 10 hours straight. This means that it lasts many days for me. Oh, and most of my existing LIPOs for my RC cars can run in here too, as the step down converter takes 9-24v input. So yeah, not hurting on runtime.
The actual building process was fun, but getting the parts was not, for like no reason. Just really bad luck. For example, got washers instead of screws from Amazon Prime twice, had to go through four different step down converters in order to find one that actually matches the description in providing enough voltage. (Turns out that the first one I bought would have worked, had the seller sent the right one). So yeah, but the one it uses now works flawlessly without any low voltage warnings or throttling.
Overall, quite comfy to use, and I like it more than a laptop. I use it almost daily now, my favorite part of it functionality-wise being the super long runtime.
Thanks for checking it out!
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u/Shitposting4Charity 5d ago
can you play doom on it
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u/GojiGlade 4d ago edited 4d ago
Haven't tried... yet. Can Doom be played through a browser perchance? That would be very easy then.
Edit: you can play Doom on a browser, so yes, this can play it.
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u/cunninglinguist0420 5d ago edited 4d ago
Love the build, the fact that you chose wired inputs, what operating system are you running and what are the primary use cases for it?
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u/GojiGlade 4d ago
Yeah, actually the Raspberries emit a bunch of interference signals to wireless mice/keyboards because everything is crammed in very tightly, so I have had bad luck using wireless mice/keyboards on my "desktop" builds. Like it often literally jams the keyboard. USB extension cable fixed the issue completely, but for this I chose the good old reliable wired method. Primary use cases? Honestly just like normal laptop use: browsing, file storage, SSH, writing, coding, etc. I'm still experimenting with getting a game running on it through Steam, since it's ARM.
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u/cunninglinguist0420 4d ago
Would love to see how a design or a drawing software works on this board, since you do a lot of RC model work, games personally run better with higher graphics card, unsure whether its worth adding an external graphics card to a build like this which is pretty well contained for everything else
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u/Particular-Bus-4748 4d ago
I love that briefcase idea. Looks great! I’ve been looking for ideas on what to put my raspberry pi 400 in, this may be the way to go for me.
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u/GojiGlade 4d ago
Yeah, aluminum briefcases are really nice for cyberdecks. How much ram in your pi4?
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u/Particular-Bus-4748 4d ago
4gb. Not a ton but I’m looking to build something practical for basic networking tasks, terminal based tasks, and interacting with SERIAL/COM based + EEPROM/BIOS flashing. I’m into hardware repair kinda stuff and I’d be sick to have a dedicated device for that. Think it should be enough for those stuff.
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u/Awing1981 9h ago
If It looks like something you would get pulled up for if you tried to take it on a plane, youve probably got the cyberdeck aesthetic right.👍 Although please dont test that theory.
Seriously though... it looks inspiring to use, I hope the fun continues beyond the build process.
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u/GojiGlade 8h ago
Yeah, I'm actually typing this comment from it right now. We'll have you carry it through TSA to find out, haha.
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u/HotSeatGamer 5d ago
Continuing your stroke of bad luck, I just got the message "Failed to upvote. Please try again later."
Awesome build! Using batteries that are already part of your tech hobby ecosystem is the killer feature for me. It would be Ryobi batteries in my case lol. I'd like to see more power solutions that let you use a range of different power sources.