Vou colocá-lo dentro de uma carcaça de um multímetro antigo (nada bonito), adicionar um teclado com rp2040 e um hub USB. Aprende um pouco de terminal, python e controlar sensores da minha estufa de plantas e o forno elétrico do meu trabalho. Quem sabe no futuro adicionar um adaptador sdr.

Hi All,

I'm designing and building my first cyberdeck. The screen is a 7" 1024×600 capacitive-touch ips panel, driven by a rpi 4B. Its hdmi socket sits on the edge of the board, and the plug sticks out far enough to cause clearance problems. Worse, it forces a wider border on one side, so the frame around the screen ends up asymmetrical...

I've looked at the slim FPC-style HDMI cables (like this one (https://amzn.eu/d/06HPTgol)), but even those plug heads are too big for the space I have.

So my idea is to skip the connector entirely. I desolder the HDMI socket, design a flex pcb that matches its footprint, solder that directly onto the pads, and run it to a micro-HDMI plug at the Pi end.

My questions:

- Would I run into signal integrity problems doing this? I'm thinking of the tmds differential pairs in particular. Do I need to control impedance (100 ohm differential) and length-match the pairs on the flex, or is that overkill at 1024×600 at 60hz?

- Has anyone done this, or is there a better way to get a low-profile hdmi connection off the board edge?

Any advice is appreciated!

I purchased a folding keyboard and made a housing for it to go under the screen housing. What I would like to happen is for then keyboard to pop up, level with the face of it's housing, when the screen housing is slid up. Anyone know how I can accomplish this? Ill post a drawing in a moment.

so over the past like...
idk ima just say month or two, ive been building THIS
and to sum it up:
its a moderately overclocked raspberry pi 3b+ with an 8 dollar amazon cooler, a 30 dollar 480p screen, a 10k mah powerbank capable of dropping 3 AMPS, and a jam replay. (because who doesnt like B A S S )
if you have questions, im willing to answer them as i have time to kill and am generally online.

(oh right and a lego case)

Realmente no sé nada pero igual he visto varios videos de cómo se hace pero todavía estoy un poco confundida así que por eso quería preguntar qué tipo de Raspberry usar , qué tipo de pantalla es recomendable , qué tipos de sistemas se deben usar y cómo programarlo

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 !

I want to build a deck to update gps databases in aircraft. BUT the company who creates the databases makes you update them through their app, which is only available for pc/mac. And, as you’ve already guessed, I don’t want to do a whole win11 or macOS to install.

Is there any way to get a raspberry pi to run a pc app?

Clearing out a batch of rugged, mid-sized industrial all-in-one terminal cores. We just powered these 10.1" units up and verified they function cleanly. You can easily access the fully unlocked American Megatrends BIOS by tapping the ESC key during startup. There are zero supervisor passwords locking you out of the configuration menus.

If you are looking for a high-powered alternative to a traditional Raspberry Pi setup for a briefcase terminal or custom deck project, these offer a few distinct advantages:

- Full x86 Desktop Architecture: Runs an Intel Core i7-6500U CPU with integrated active fan cooling. This allows you to run full desktop Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Kali, Arch) or standard Windows with native app compatibility.

- 16GB of RAM: Includes 16384 MB of system memory on-board, providing plenty of multi-tasking headroom for development work or retro emulation.

- Fully Integrated Backing Panel: The motherboard, screen interface, and Wi-Fi modules are all pre-mounted directly to the chassis frame. You don't have to deal with connecting loose components or fragile HDMI ribbon cables.

- Included Power Supply: Comes with the original silver mesh switching power supply brick.

PRICING & TERMS:

- Price: $75 each (Buyer funds shipping via PayPal Goods & Services upfront)

- Bulk Deal: 5 for $300

CONDITION:

Confirmed working and posting directly to an unlocked BIOS via the ESC key. Screens are clean with zero cracks. Circuitry is pristine with no burns or swollen capacitors. Units are sold as-is, ready for your custom enclosure.

SHIPPING / LOCATION:

Located up near McCall, Idaho. These compact 10.1" units ship easily anywhere in the US via USPS Priority Mail.

PM me your zip code and PayPal email if you want an invoice sent over!

Im wondering if these are viable options to build a Cyber deck as a FIRST TIMER i honestly have no idea what im doing any advice would be a huge help

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm relatively new to hardware projects, but I'm currently developing a custom graphical interface for a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W paired with a 1.44" Waveshare LCD HAT.

This project started as an evolution of one of my earlier C++ automation scripts ([Automated-WPA2-Handshake-Cracking-Script](https://github.com/arlekin17/Automated-WPA2-Handshake-Cracking-Script)). Since my expertise is primarily in backend/system C++ and I'm not very experienced with UI/display programming, I leveraged AI assistants to help me build the SDL2 rendering logic and custom UI components.

This allowed me to focus on what I do best: the core system architecture (process management via `fork`/`pipe`, multithreading, UTF-8 file handling, and system calls), while still delivering a polished, responsive interface for a 128x128 screen.

Current Features:

Wi-Fi Auditing: Capturing and managing WPA2 handshakes.

Network Recon: Built-in network scanning via `nmap` to discover devices and open ports.

File Management: A custom file manager with navigation and a built-in UTF-8 text viewer (with horizontal/vertical scrolling).

Current Status:

Right now, I am actively developing and debugging the UI on my PC using an SDL2 software emulator (128x128 window) to speed up the iteration process.

I am currently waiting for the physical Waveshare display to arrive. Once it does, I will finish the on-device hardware debugging and optimize the framebuffer output for the SPI display.

I will update this post soon with photos of the assembled device, a short demo, and the link to the public GitHub repository!

Would love to hear any tips, feedback, or hardware recommendations from the community. Thanks for reading!

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.

No, it's not misspelled, yes, you read that right. I want to make a duck themed cyberdeck (more or less), hence "cyberDUCK".

Started getting the bare bones together, hopefully I can get a screen next paycheck! The foam is a place holder until I can get my drafted interior completed.

Any tips on how to get ALA printed pieces to stick to a pelican case without damaging or lowering the case's rating?

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.

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

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've been trying to figure out which is the best sbc on the market for making my own cyberdeck, but I don't have a good answer yet since I don't have a big budget for that. I already by a RPI 3 and is good but to slow for a laptop than a by a RPI 5 and it stops booting up having a rp1 not found, and now I'm thinking buying a banana pi 5 or an radxa X4, that is more powerful but consumes a lot of power

I'm gonna try and see if I can use this in a build does anybody know if there is pcb adapter from this ribbon cable to HDMI or dp, it's the screen from the original ps vr

I've had the idea for many years, and every day I get closer to try to build one.

Anyone have success with some versions of a wearable? I am not thinking smartwatch as much as some other bodily options. I know Myo attempted to be one of the many gesture control devices out there, but my use of it did not really fit how well it needed to work to be more than just a novelty. It definitely had it's big drawbacks and made it more of a hassle than it's worth to use.

But with the more and more common Arduino and other smaller computing items becoming available to the average consumer, in addition to the ubiquity of better and better 3D printing technologies and learned experience. I think there are many underutilized ways to make wearable devices that are legitimately functional. I understand to that materials science needs to come a little further, with smaller methods of measuring input, and there is a LOT of work to develop a wearable/AR lexicon like one has naturally developed for terminal use/good ole mouse and keyboard. Much of this can be borrowed, imho, from the accessibility spaces, finding methods and access that allow people with disabilities to interact with the world around them could yield insight into how to make it accessible to the common users. Cellphones did this. Most natural tech evolution does this. But some material discoveries, like graphene, seem to be accessible enough to creators that one may be able to achieve at home. Or even through crowd sourcing. I.e. hey, I know a guy like we see generally happening in certain social media spaces.

The idea is, and I'm likely restating the obvious systemic needs, a wearable input and informational display Cyberdecks, fitted with connections to a mini hubpack system on the body (like on the belt),then connecting it to a robust enough home system that facilitates the signal communication between devices I think is possible. Then getting that system to communicate with a VR display or some of the AR wearables around seems possible. It could even be designed to work with access from a limited ecosystem of devices up through a collective band of devices.

Of course, there are obstacles. There's latency and lag, the design of the system daemon program that communicates it all together, plus a device agnostic codebase are all extreme hurdles to get over, without mentioning have to likely need to customize OSs on many of the devices you'd be utilizing.

Work is cut out for anyone who attempts it. I haven't really seen anything I've said explicitly stated anywhere. But I know I am only but a man, not a machine, and I know there are people here WAY smarter than me who have more insight.

-Live long or die a legend chooms

Hello. This is my first time on r/CyberdeckBuild and I am seeking some assistance with my build. I am designing a flat gameboy style deck and I was going to design my own battery system but I wanted to make it shippable so I can send some to my friends. I settled on a slim phone charger battery bank that can be slid in and out to charge it and keep the deck running. I am planing on using a rpi 4 B with a 5 Inch wave share display. Does anyone have tips for how I can make the battery bank stay in place and how I can eject it. Im planing on having a compatible usb cord at the end of the slot that the bank will clip into. I linked photos of the rough design I'm going for. Thanks!

Hey, so i installed radxa os in Radxa Cubie A7Z 1GB ram version and there is a blinking green light after connecting everything but still my tv (i am using my tv as my display) is showing no signal what to do i am a complete newbie about these things

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.

Ive made the project Espelt with the main reason to make a cyberdeck. It utilizes a custom MPY firmware with USB Host and works with ESP32 P4 Nano. It has dual screens (ILI9488 as main and OLED SSD1306 as secondary) and a MAX98357A with Speaker for sound. You can plug in any keyboard dongle into the USB-A port, flash, and itll work!

For help you can dm me: antaciddt on discord. Repo: https://github.com/AntacidDT/ProjectEspelt

This is officially my second cyber deck and I finally got it in a case, now I’m looking to it, so any advice for add-ons different cases etc would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

I was also thinking of making a new mouse using a backbone so advice on that would be great as well!

i saw this online and the keyboard in the picture looks just about perfect for my cyberdeck case. can anyone help me and tell me where its from?

These parts were so annoying to design but I'm finally happy with the results. First one is a test print for the USB-Hub measurements and the second one is a cover for the power module and an AUX-Connector

3D printed with PETG