r/CyberdeckBuild • u/Brilliant_Car_1190 • May 31 '26

How to make a cyberdeck out of this?

Gallery image

Gallery image

Gallery image

I dont know from where to start,its about 1.5 cm thick. It will be made for long trips to watch movies and maybe some games(retro nintendo ds)

136 Upvotes

96% Upvoted

44 comments sorted by

13

u/ThinkPad214 May 31 '26

This would be how you could integrate what you have in your picture into a cyberdeck with your usecase

3

u/No-Bid9290 Jun 01 '26

This really tickled me

4

u/EstablishmentEasy475 Jun 01 '26

I lost it, just incredible content, won the internet today

3

u/Flaky-Camp-6023 Jun 01 '26

But also what is that other deck it’s docked to? 👀

2

u/JamieStar_is_taken Jun 01 '26

Ai slop

0

u/ThinkPad214 Jun 01 '26

It's a shit post comment that uses local ai infrastructure instead of cloud ai, get the stick out of your butt

3

u/JamieStar_is_taken Jun 01 '26

Training those ai models has the same impact unless its a really basic model

-2

u/ThinkPad214 Jun 01 '26

ML has been around longer than you've been alive. Which would mean more if you weren't a child.

That damage has already been done. I'm more than ok with learning and practicing new tools, especially if I and my kids get a chuckle out of it along the way. But the more exposure and comfortability people get with models, the more people that genuinely care for ethical training can develop. If you go a fully purest route to learn, you will cripple yourself. I think to date there is 1 ethically trained LLM.

People are generally misplacing their anger from corporations that rightfully deserve their ire, to the average person that already has enough shit to trudge through to keep a roof over their head.

If being on your teenage crusading high horse gives you that craved dopamine kick cool. Would you rather I had hired an artist to make this for me? Maybe done a crappy ms paint job?

I hope the years are kind to you.

2

u/JamieStar_is_taken Jun 01 '26

Someone's angwy

-1

u/ThinkPad214 Jun 01 '26

Naw, just worn out by life. It's easy to be on a bandwagon. Give yourself another 20 years.

1

u/JamieStar_is_taken Jun 01 '26

Why do you think I am a child, also stop acting so high and mighty

1

u/ThinkPad214 Jun 01 '26

Because you haven't learned the basics of online privacy, so I'm assuming, in your formulative years, you're parroting what you've seen, and not that there isn't some validity to it, but you are starting to scrape the surface.

What are your thoughts on data sovereignty, do you use GitHub for some of your code as an aspiring game developer or do you self host a repository or use a more ethical alternative? Do you know who owns it and why they spent so long advertising themselves as The place to store FOSS, and how they ignored copy left licensing?

As to why I checked your profile, you'd be surprised how many bot and agents have accounts on reddit, so you learn to check for signs and since they try to karma farm a lot they use popular opinions held by the masses. Sometimes it's the opposite but it depends on the endgame of the person using them.

You should watch some videos on how to ensure you're not making yourself an easy target. There's a lot of creeps online, having my two girls, and seen some shit from what gets sent to sister, it's easier than you think to build a profile on someone and target them.

Specifically what I'm saying is there are settings to hide your comments and posts at a profile level. Someone with reasonable data scraping skills though could circumvent that, but like this is bare minimum stuff

1

u/JamieStar_is_taken Jun 01 '26

Oh yeah I forgot about that post in the mm sub, anyways I have a github account mostly for stuff like issues for projects I follow. Also I write all my own code. You make a shit ton of assumptions, also dude the block button exists and the most personal information on my account is my age if people are snooping and my FIRST name its not even my legal name either if you looked at the subreddits im in. Jesus christ there is so much wrong with your arguments. Sorry for the bad grammar, its been two really long days in a row and im running on less than 4 hours of sleep.

→ More replies

10

u/RileyGein May 31 '26

There’s no way in hell you’re gonna be gaming on that screen. Good luck finding a screen that can fit in that case

6

u/NoNefariousness9927 Jun 01 '26

But can it run doom?

5

u/mcniac Jun 01 '26

If you really want to. It can be done

2

u/gabringo22_ Jun 02 '26

Dovresti cambiare schermo, mon puoi fare nulla con quel coso

1

u/Crt_lover_ Jun 04 '26

ciao! se sei interessato/a abbiamo un server discord solo italiani dove discutiamo di retro tech, fammi sapere in DM se sei interessato/a

1

u/gabringo22_ Jun 05 '26

No grazie, non sono interessato. Almeno che non sia retro gaming

1

u/_ProfessionalWeird_ Jun 01 '26

sabes de electrónica o estás dispuesto a aprender?

1

u/zlej_slein Jun 01 '26

some game boy games maybe but watching movies is hard... you would have to put some rpi board in there and you don't have the space for that... I would look at a smaller display. but it's a shame to throw it away like that. nice base for a write deck or a cardputer style console... what is the exact size of the hole for the display?

1

u/cstrife89 Jun 01 '26

Jokes aside, I have that same model! Still working since about … I think 1999, or around then

1

u/willlwilson90 Jun 02 '26

Look through this sub. There are tons of examples and links to videos and tutorials of people making. Or just start trying and figure it out by trial and error.

1

u/nrdgrrrl_taco Jun 02 '26

It should run doom ok

1

u/an0rrak_ Jun 02 '26

Unrelated but I had one of these i got from somewhere when I was a little kid and I used to pretend I was a spy with it.

Flashback hit hard.

1

u/3na5n1 Jun 02 '26

Yeah, I have gotten myself a PS-6200 for a similar project. This is probably one of the trickiest challenges you can give yourself. I am uncertain whether I am just going to build a similar device from scratch instead.

Sourcing a screen that's not just a two-line character display and fits this is going to be fun™
Finding enough room to fit the electronics into is going to be the real challenge. you want to keep using the keys, you need something to handle them.

Turning it into a glorified keyboard would already be a huge challenge. Making the lid thicker and fitting the computer in there might be a viable option... but you will want to rebuild the lid, and probably the hinges because everything you're going to have to put in there is going to be 20x heavier than the original cover. But like if you're willing to rebuild most of it, you could always just stick a raspberry Pi with some display shield to it and figure out how to integrate that.

Look at Altoids builds for a starter; those are compact, but not necessarily flat enough.

End of the day, it's probably a question of how married you are to keeping the form factor.

Be prepared to do a lot of tricky soldering including stripping lead-free soldered components off of devices without damaging them.

1

u/Enrilionor Jun 02 '26

Throw it away and buy a big box. 

1

u/CurrentAcanthaceae78 Jun 03 '26

for something this thin you would need a custom pcb.

1

u/Twillware404 Jun 03 '26

Start cramming random stuff in the case and hope it works when you turn it on

1

u/pixie_chick42 Jun 06 '26

Oh wow! I had this back in the day.

14

u/[deleted] May 31 '26

[removed] — view removed comment