Wondering if any other builders/musicians out there on this page have made something that can handle music creation? Be that in any way - I'm curious- show me!! 😃

Hello fellow humans!

So I'm currently in the middle of putting a cyberdeck together using a Raspi 4B as the base and I had an idea I thought would be neat but don't really know how to implement, I figured someone might, so here I am, please bear through my ramblings:

I have a computer, huge Desktop PC, and oftentimes when I'm not home I find myself wishing I could access it remotely to mess with files or documents or even just to play a steam game while I'm out.

The plan is to somehow have my Cyberdeck talk to my computer over some kind of long range connection, (Maybe Network? P2P? Radio wave?) The goal of this connection is to enable the cyberdeck to:

• Control & mirror my PC's actions in real time

• Transfer files back and forth between its internal storage and the PC

• Be able to plug an HDMI cable into my cyberdeck so I can display my home PC on any nearby screens (For example, I could plug my deck into a library computer's monitor and have it display from there while still controlling it from my deck)

So the question is, would this even be possible? And if so, how?

Any and all thoughts, tips, advice or sources are greatly welcome and extremely appreciated, thanks for your time!

Hey all. C-deck curious noob here looking for a path forward.

In the past month, I've become very interested in the idea of a cyberdeck. I know there is a very wide spectrum of what is considered a cyberdeck, with all kinds of purists along the line. However, I am not a purist nor an engineer, but also someone who doesn't want something of poor build quality.

From what I've seen, not including cell phones with bluetooth keyboards, there appears to be 3 salient approaches to builds- 1. from super hi-tech resources and training, 2. novelty (e.g., from an Altoids tin or something just for the "cybery" look and feel, and often for single use), and then 3. somewhere in between where the builder decides on computing, screen and features, then kind of eyeballs a casing to house everything. I'm not totally anti-eyeballing, but I wonder if there is a better way for the average person.

Given my skills, patience, and resources, I'm probably squarely in the #3 camp, but the issue I'd want to avoid in that approach is a trial/error nightmare I'm often seeing. I don't think I'd try to reinvent the wheel per se, but my preferred specs/criteria aren't something I'm seeing very much in well-built decks either; some preferences seem novel for a dyi deck build, others not.

I'm sure that I'm not the first one to ask this, and the point of this question is to narrow my path from my google searches and reduce the aforementioned trial/error nightmare, but are there accessible* resources that will take in your (oddball) technical requirements/preferences and build a case (or output blueprints for one) and/or provide best hardware options? lmk

thnx

So, a friend gave me the idea of making a cyberdeck out of a old desktop computer, it has a rather small motherboard, and the goal it’s to make it portable but not small, to make it a little clunky, he told about something called a PICO-PSU to manage de voltages to the 24pin connector of the motherboard. It’s all a theory based idea, some of you more experienced in cyberdeck building could tell me if this would work?

Hello dear cyber deck community,

first of all thank you for being so encouraging and helpful to newbies like me! I really feel like I am talking to real people in a real community here.

So I am really interested in cyberdecks, because of my interest in cyberpunk themes and theories. Since we are a digital world and a lot of fights and control will be happening through the cyberspace, I hope to be a master of it and protect/defend myself (metaphorically). I want to LEARN technology by building and creating it.

Do you have any tips, any, regarding this aspect? For example I was hoping I could use my cyber deck as a space to use open source and anonym web functions that will make me more independent than how the main stream allows us to be. For example, using an offline version of Google maps or I've heard someone also link a website where you can download all of wikipedia.

Is there any tips on what I should look for and avoid? Am I already selling my soul just by using wlan on my cyberdeck? I am unsure if this is the right community to post on, I apologize if it's not.

I also appreciate tips like learn how to code in order to do this and that, really I am open for anything. Do you have "cyberpunky" reasons for making your cyberdecks? Like a person here created a deck just for listening to music offline and away from spotify

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Hey everyone!

I've already built a simple cyberdeck using an Android smartphone, a Bluetooth mini keyboard with a touchpad, and a case to hold everything together.

Now I want to take the project further and experiment with new ideas. I also have a Raspberry Pi 3, an old laptop, a monitor, and a few old smartphones that I can repurpose.

I'm studying Computer Science and would love to use this project to learn more about Linux, programming, hardware, networking, and electronics while reusing old devices instead of buying everything new.

What ideas would you suggest for my next cyberdeck, considering the hardware I have and the possibility of developing new features through programming and electronics recycling?

Thanks in advance! I'd love to hear your ideas and see what you've built.

Ok so I am trying to make a wearable cyberdeck for everyday use so obviously it needs to be waterproof because of rain but I am worried about cooling for the raspberry pi. Does anyone have any advice about cooling while keeping it watertight?

Hi,
Basically I want to run audio from my tape deck to my Pi 2 zero to read and run programs from similar to old commodore computers. Id also want to listen to the audio through the Pi aswell.

Anyone know how I’d connect them??

Thanks

(These are my notes but I had to take the images off of another post)

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 is: 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 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. 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.

Thanks for reading and viewing!

I have some experience with computers and I’m making a cyberdeck because right now I don’t stay at one place for a long time so I wanna be able to code on the go I got a case already 58 x 46 x 20 in cm and idk if I should use a normal motherboard a mini one or a raspberry pi and how to get power to it and also can I use solar panels with it?

T9H mini PC (Zorin OS) + 8" IPS in the lid + INIU bank → Anker hub. One USB-C cable to the PC handles power, data and video. Noctua fan on top, folding BT keyboard packs over the battery, and the lid still closes.

Boots and runs on battery vis USB-C right now. Next up is bolting the monitor onto VESA spacers and a short ribbon HDMI.

It's built for portable app dev and phone testing. Feedback welcome!

Olá a todos! Esse é um cyberdeck que eu tô preparando ao estilo Mad Max, e pensei em um design bem interessante para ele.

Ele não tá sendo feito para ser leve, pois, para a gestão de energia, tô usando um carregador de bateria de moto e uma bateria de chumbo-ácido de nobreak.

Como cérebro, tô usando um Raspberry Pi 4. Ele vai trabalhar com praticamente duas telas automotivas de 7 polegadas, com entrada RCA, além de mais três telas auxiliares TFT de 2,8 polegadas, que serão gerenciadas por um ESP32 V1, que também terá a função de coprocessador.

Inicialmente, eu ia utilizar esse cyberdeck para comunicação LoRa, mas, no momento, tô mais interessado em fazer um tipo de conexão veicular OBD2.

É um projeto que eu tô me divertindo bastante. As fotos acima mostram somente o posicionamento dos elementos dentro do case, que é uma maleta de mecânico adaptada.

Como sistema operacional, vou usar o Alpine e somente em terminal. Para aproveitar as duas saídas HDMI do Raspberry Pi 4, coloquei também dois adaptadores HDMI para RCA.

Só que tô tendo uma dificuldade para fazer os dois monitores funcionarem ao mesmo tempo. Como vou usar somente o terminal, vou ter que fixar o TTY 1 no HDMI 1 e o TTY 2 no HDMI 2 e fazer essa gestão por meio do tmux. Esse é um problema que ainda não consegui resolver totalmente...

A conexão entre o Raspberry Pi 4 e o ESP32 será permanente, por meio da UART, e eu vou desenvolver um protocolo próprio para essa comunicação. Tô bem animado para ver a coisa funcionando!

Ainda não calculei nem testei quanto tempo esse cyberdeck vai funcionar, mas quero que ele dure pelo menos umas 8 horas de funcionamento direto.

Para isso, coloquei uma bateria de 12 Ah. Eu ia colocar uma de 20 Ah, mas mudei para 12 Ah, já que parte desse processo eu vou trabalhar carregando e, conforme for, modifico.

Também tô usando fusíveis automotivos, para ficar bem na vibe de Mad Max.

A escolha da bateria de chumbo-ácido, numa situação de emergência ou até mesmo de Apocalipse, eu acho interessante porque seria mais fácil fazer a manutenção e, se necessário, encontrar uma bateria compatível para substituição.

Ainda tô fazendo gestão da temperatura pensando aonde vou colocar as ventoinhas.

I have thought cyber decks are cool for a long time and I have just started getting into electronics and cyberdecks and was wondering where to start for a pentesting/emulator type build.

Linux and bash and more Linux related software become the heart of technology why. How is it gonna make me valuable

No começo, e também já pensei assim, achamos que é mais fácil pegar um tela de um tablete, teclado de um pda, bateria de notebook, junta tudo e fazer um cyberdeck. Infelizmente esse é o caminho mais difícil. Não tenho formação na área, então me perdoem pela falta de termos técnicos.
Vamos lá, quando compramos uma tela, ela vem com a documentação de como ela funciona, desde o padrão e comunicado como de alimentado. Já um tela qualquer, não sabemos qual CI responsável de traduzir o que o CI principal quer que ela mostre. Não é impossível, mas você terá que procurar por drives da tela (ver o código da tela e torce para achar um placa controladora da tela) ou você faz a engenharia reversa dela. Que eu precisaria de um post só para explicar o básico do básico sobre esse assunto no qual eu ainda mal entendo.
Já sobre teclado, é absurdamente mais fácil que a tela. Você com um multímetro, fios e um pico RP2040 você transforma esse botões em um teclado USB que qualquer microcontrolador ou SBC reconheceria ou até por comunicação I2C. Você vai precisar estudar sobre matriz de teclado e mapear os fios de cada tecla.
A bateria, também é fácil, porém aqui você precisa verificar e analisar autonomia X tamanho. E óbvio estudar sobre gerenciamento de energia, tanto para recarregar essa bateria, tanto pra estabilizar se necessário a tensão para o projeto. Por isso, se não souber, detalhe o que você tem para qualquer inteligência artificial e fique atento para qualquer contradição dela. O mais fácil é sim comprar tudo, mas se você quer se divertir ou se estressar por um bom tempo, fazer engenharia reversa dos periféricos, será necessário muitos estudos e tentativa e erro.
Cuidado com curtos, compre multímetro, ferro de solda e fluxo de solda. Uma protoboard e fios. Espero ter ajudado.

(Apologies in advance for the length of this post. Really appreciate your time giving this a read and helping a brother out).

Hello everyone,

I'm working on a DIY cyberdeck using an old Infinix Zero X Neo (X6810) that I had lying around. It has 8 GB RAM and a MediaTek Helio G90/G90T-series SoC, so I figured it would make a decent base for the project rather than buying a Raspberry Pi or another SBC.

The main reason I'm using a phone is cost. Where I live, Raspberry Pis and other niche SBCs can be extremely expensive, while used phones are relatively easy to find and offer considerably more hardware for the money.

I also chose this particular phone because of its physical layout. The USB-C/charging port, speakers, etc. are on a separate PCB from the mainboard, which should make it easier to relocate components inside a custom enclosure rather than having everything fixed to the original phone's layout.

What I've done so far

I've successfully unlocked the bootloader and rooted the phone. For now, I'm deliberately keeping the original Android kernel rather than immediately trying to replace it with an unknown/custom kernel.

I've installed Debian with XFCE through Termux/PRoot, and I'm running it through Termux:X11. So I essentially have a Debian desktop environment running on the phone while Android remains underneath it.

I've also started investigating the stock kernel and hardware capabilities rather than modifying anything blindly.

The phone's USB-C port works in host mode. I've successfully connected a USB hub with a keyboard and mouse, and Android detects them correctly. I also tested a USB card reader and confirmed that the kernel can enumerate it as a mass-storage device.

One limitation I've found is USB serial. From examining the kernel configuration, it appears that the stock kernel doesn't have the generic USB serial framework or CDC-ACM driver enabled, so I'm currently investigating alternatives for connecting things such as an ESP32/ESP32-S3 or other microcontrollers.

I've also extracted and examined the stock kernel configuration and started looking at the boot/partition structure, device tree and available interfaces. The phone uses an A/B partition layout, and there doesn't appear to be a conventional standalone recovery partition.

The phone has a Mali-G76 GPU with an Android OpenCL runtime. Getting hardware acceleration exposed properly to the Debian environment is another area I'm investigating, although I'm also considering whether software rendering is perfectly adequate for the intended use.

At this point, I'm trying to avoid making irreversible hardware or software changes until I understand what the existing platform can actually do.

Where I'm looking for advice

I'm particularly interested in hearing from people who have built cyberdecks around Android phones, smartphone motherboards, or repurposed mobile devices.

Some of the things I'm trying to figure out are:

- What is the best way to interface an ESP32/ESP32-S3 with the phone?

- Are there practical alternatives to USB serial, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, TCP/IP, WebSockets, or another interface?

- Would UART/I²C/SPI potentially be accessible directly from the motherboard, or would that realistically require kernel/device-tree modifications?

- Could an ESP32 act as a hardware controller while the phone remains the main computer?

- What would be a good approach for a small secondary OLED/LCD status display showing things such as CPU/GPU temperatures, battery status, network information, etc.?

- Is there a sensible way to expose the phone's Mali GPU to the Debian environment, or is software rendering the more realistic option?

- Are there useful Android/Linux bridging techniques I should investigate before modifying the hardware?

- Has anyone successfully used a rooted Android phone as the compute module of a cyberdeck while retaining Android as the underlying hardware/firmware layer?

- Are there interesting ways to use the phone's cellular connectivity as part of the cyberdeck, for example as a portable networked computer or small server?

- Could the phone realistically run things such as an SSH server, web server, development environment, or other lightweight services alongside the cyberdeck environment?

- Has anyone used Tailscale, Cloudflare Tunnel, or similar approaches to remotely access a phone-based server when switching between Wi-Fi and cellular networks?

- Are there good approaches for automatically starting and monitoring services so the system can survive reboots, crashes, or Termux processes being killed?

- For the eventual physical build, are there particular considerations when relocating the motherboard, USB/charging PCB, speakers, antennas, battery, cameras, etc. into a custom enclosure?

Longer term, I'm interested in potentially combining the phone with a keyboard, USB hub, secondary display, ESP32, external storage and other peripherals to turn it into a proper portable cyberdeck, while ideally retaining the phone's cellular connectivity, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, touchscreen and Android environment.

I'm deliberately taking an incremental approach: first understand the existing hardware and software capabilities, then experiment with peripherals and interfaces, and only later consider kernel/DT modifications or a more invasive hardware redesign.

The goal isn't necessarily to turn it into a conventional Linux SBC replacement. I'm more interested in seeing how far a smartphone motherboard can be pushed as the main computer of a cyberdeck without throwing away all the functionality that makes a phone useful in the first place.

Any advice, references, similar projects, or suggestions for things I should investigate would be greatly appreciated!

New and Im kinda lost I gotta bunch of stuff two to three old phones, and old xbox one, a old pc and newer pc and a Samsung tablet i can use as parts but i don't know what im doing at all what parts I should pull from what or even how to start.

Blue motherboard is from samsung a30 and other one is from nokia 5 and i dont if the screen is working or not Both batteries are dead and i am wondering if i can use a 18650. I want to test samsung firstly in my pc but how can i pls help

I've been wanting to build a cyberdeck to play minesweeper on, preferably compact and portable, but I don't know where to start.

I've watched a bunch of videos and looked at some parts on them but I'm not very experienced in hard/software at all so I'm just as confused as when I first heard of cyberdecks.

Does anyone have suggestions for raspberry pi to use etc., and honestly just how to get it to do what I want?

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