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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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On 2025-08-13, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> 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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On 14/08/2025 21:22, Den zuko wrote:

On 2025-08-13, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> 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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