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    From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 13 01:25:05 2025
    I first came across this concept a few years ago <https://hackaday.com/tag/cyberdeck/>. A “cyberdeck” is basically a
    style of home-built computer with futuristic/sci-fi/cyberpunk
    overtones. The name comes from (what else) a William Gibson novel. It
    seems common to use a Raspberry Pi as the beating heart, with a custom 3D-printed case around it plus other suitably interesting-looking
    parts.

    Angles seem preferable to curves, with asymmetrically-inset polygons
    very popular. Weird and wacky keyboard layouts are a bonus. The
    diminutive size of the Raspberry Pi leaves plenty of room for
    experimentation.

    We can build the future-that-never-was! We have the technology now.

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  • From Den zuko@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Thu Aug 14 20:22:53 2025
    On 2025-08-13, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]d> wrote:
    I first came across this concept a few years ago
    <https://hackaday.com/tag/cyberdeck/>. A “cyberdeck” is basically a
    style of home-built computer with futuristic/sci-fi/cyberpunk
    overtones. The name comes from (what else) a William Gibson novel. It
    seems common to use a Raspberry Pi as the beating heart, with a custom 3D-printed case around it plus other suitably interesting-looking
    parts.

    First proposed this in the late 90's then again in the late 00's. Left it be for a time and suprised that 30 years later and four revisions of Raspberry PI there's a community for it after the PCMR case moding hobby died.

    There is a whole subreddit for this hobby and overall most builds tend to be clones of laptop formats which is counter to what a cyberdeck is/was in media.

    A cyberdeck by definition is a personal computing device, usually wearable, and special built for "hacking". Given the original insparation was the Sinclar QL and like one can say a Cyberdeck is a wearable PC inside a keyboard that a smart glasses interfaces with.

    That would be great to see built beyond the hacky prototype I and others in the community have built.

    Angles seem preferable to curves, with asymmetrically-inset polygons
    very popular. Weird and wacky keyboard layouts are a bonus. The
    diminutive size of the Raspberry Pi leaves plenty of room for experimentation.

    True, even seen / had plans for an FPGA based one with a built in SDR.


    We can build the future-that-never-was! We have the technology now.

    Yes we can! And even more so now.

    So LDO, what would you thinking of buildng for your cyberdeck?

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  • From Jason H@21:1/5 to Den zuko on Fri Aug 15 14:23:21 2025
    On 14/08/2025 21:22, Den zuko wrote:
    On 2025-08-13, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]d> wrote:
    I first came across this concept a few years ago >><https://hackaday.com/tag/cyberdeck/>. A “cyberdeck” is basically a
    style of home-built computer with futuristic/sci-fi/cyberpunk
    overtones. The name comes from (what else) a William Gibson novel. It
    seems common to use a Raspberry Pi as the beating heart, with a custom
    3D-printed case around it plus other suitably interesting-looking
    parts.

    First proposed this in the late 90's then again in the late 00's. Left it be >for a time and suprised that 30 years later and four revisions of Raspberry PI >there's a community for it after the PCMR case moding hobby died.

    There is a whole subreddit for this hobby and overall most builds tend to be >clones of laptop formats which is counter to what a cyberdeck is/was in media.

    A cyberdeck by definition is a personal computing device, usually wearable, and
    special built for "hacking". Given the original insparation was the Sinclar QL >and like one can say a Cyberdeck is a wearable PC inside a keyboard that a >smart glasses interfaces with.

    That would be great to see built beyond the hacky prototype I and others in the
    community have built.

    Angles seem preferable to curves, with asymmetrically-inset polygons
    very popular. Weird and wacky keyboard layouts are a bonus. The
    diminutive size of the Raspberry Pi leaves plenty of room for
    experimentation.

    True, even seen / had plans for an FPGA based one with a built in SDR.


    We can build the future-that-never-was! We have the technology now.

    Yes we can! And even more so now.

    So LDO, what would you thinking of buildng for your cyberdeck?

    Interesting. Just today (a day off), I was asked by a colleague if I could
    run some automated tests to check a big had been fixed and for regression.
    Not a big problem - while out and about I simply connected to Tailscale and
    used Termux to SSH into my development VM and get the test running.

    One problem! The characters on my Pixel 9 Pro are very small. Something like
    a Cyberdeck would, perhaps, be more versatile.
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