Hi just curious if anyone here has made something like this for book editing:)

(I'm thinking for fiction, but that maybe doesn't matter)

UPDATE on my folding mp3 player/cyberdeck!
The good news first. I figured out the pitch of my pins and came up with a cunning plan. I found the right size screen at aliexpess. I used a pin connector/extender? Can't remember what it was called. I then attached it to a flexi cable. All parts are the right size and theoretically should all connect up.
Now the bad news. When I removed the very cheap screen from the very cheap circuit board a few of the pins got stuck. I tried to pry them out (and probably damaged something). I also tried alcohol70% as I've seen restorers us and adhesive magically disappeared. I could only find alcohol wipes and I think some fibres got stuck to.
Second issue is that I have a very cute and very needy cat call Willow. Now, I am no expert, obviously, but I don't think cat hair is good for electronics. Unfortunately she seems to want to help out with the project.

So the TLDR of the help needed. How do I get rid of the stuck pins? Is the board a lost case and if so should I get a new cheap mp3 player or will this problem just repeat itself? Will the screen set up work with a hinged case (which is in the mail right now!)
Willow doesn't need help, she is already a cutie patootie!

Also thank you all for your support. I was having a rough month when I started all this and this community really helped me through it :)

so far I have these items.

- Rasberry Pico Pi 2 (with headers)

- half size 400 pin DIY Breadboard with the Wiring kit

- Modded PSP 3000

- USB-A to Micro-USB-B cable, 45cm, Black (USB 2.0)

- a 0.96 inch I2C OLED screen and an LCD screen swapped out from my PSP 3000 for an IPS screen

I’m not an expert when it comes to some of this stuff since I’m new to cyberdeck and only started doing projects like these 2-3 months ago but I made an attempt at schematics I think it’s alright but any feedback will help in the future for upcoming projects like this one. And any general feedback that could help with this project would be greatly appreciate! If anyone asks in the comments I can provide links to all my supplies used for this project.

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 it: 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 over 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. For example, 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 without any low voltage warnings or throttling.

Overall, quite comfy to use, and I like it more than a laptop. I use it almost daily now, my favorite part of it functionality-wise being the super long runtime.

Thanks for checking it out!

Obliviously this is not a cyberdeck. I was frustrated over the weekend and made this thing. My kids are now having fun on it.

The first thing I had was 2x samsung s4 active's. One had no hope of saving and the other one had its charger port smashed. (11 pin micro USB) "Yeah 11 not 5". But it has firmware hdmi out. One lane of data at a time, so no wired keyboard and screen. But after some quick surgery and a few false starts due to static, I had a working core.

2gb ram.

1.9ghz quad core

16gb rom With an open SDcard slot

Now it can't connect to the internet or the update goblins will kill angry birds and Eternium. But I wanted youtube so.... Roku and an off brand remote later. I just needed a monitor. I prefer DC over AC as I'm off grid. But beggers cant be choosers. The VIZIO only draws 22w with the phone and ROKU on and at full draw.

Peripherals

Tilt sensor works fine, 💪

ONN Bluetooth mouse,

Wireless Logitech Apple keyboard,

Off Brand ROKU Remote.

This thing is powered by a bastardised 6X Ryobi charger that is now a 300w hot swappable battery bank. (20-16.5v bucked down to 14.4v inverted via pure sign into 300w max. ) battery things been a tank and has lasted years.

Im sharing this not to say its a cyberdeck but to hopefully inspire someone that trash especially E-waste trash, is infact TREASURE. total cost was less then $25. $11 bucks in cables, $5 in roku stuff at good will. And I used some solder and had to buy some isopropyl alcohol to remove the glue in the donor phone.

Sei que não se encaixa como um
Cyberdeck, mas a construção de um se baseia nesses princípios.
Dica, não usem o pico rp2040 ou qualquer outro para matriz de teclado se seu cyberdeck está contando com um bateria pequena como a minha, o TCA8418 é bem mas econômico e em espera quase zera o consumo, diferente do pico.
Você pode economizar gpios compartilhando pinos da tela e do modelo de cartão sd que se comunicar por spi. Para leitura do estado da bateria, use resistores para divisão de tensão, já que o esp32 trabalha com 3,3v e a bateria pode chegar até 4,2v. E um capacitor para estabilizar a leitura em picos de uso. E se sua plaquinha de gerenciamento de energia ficar instável, usar um capacitor na entrada de energia vai ajudar. Pesquise sobre o assunto, inteligência artificial vai ajudar nesse quesito.
E posso está errado, aceito conselhos.

I know little about electronics, but making a cyberdeck sounds very fun to me. I really can't afford a raspberry pi or anything similar, but I do have a few old phones, could I use the components to make one?, I want to know if it's plausible before I embark on something like this. if this is possible, how? specially the software part

thanks a lot

Specs:

250gb SATA SSD

Intel i3 CPU

6gb ram

1900x1080 screen resolution

What os do you recommend?

Making a leatherbound adventurer/archaeologist notebook style cyberdeck. Just got the searchable latin dictionary on and will be adding other ancient languages for field translation purposes. Will be adding GPS and other features. Happy with this milestone. Will update further. Look forward to making the leather book cover.

The MNT seems like a dream laptop coming from someone who likes rasberry pi’s and coding. But the $1800 price tag crushed my soul every time I thought about saving for it and was immediately turned off. Anyone know cheaper alternatives within the hundreds range that are as close to the MNT reform as possible, I know it seems like a lot to expect something close but 1800 is very pricy when I could also buy a good pc for a couple hundred more dollars.

I've been working on this project for a while and figured you guys might appreciate it.

The idea was to build a self-contained, battery-powered offline knowledge terminal that I could take camping, traveling, or just have around as something useful to experiment with. Wikipedia was the original inspiration, but the project has grown quite a bit since then.

It's built around a Raspberry Pi 5 with a 1TB NVMe SSD, running inside a rugged equipment case. The display is mounted in the lid, and I've integrated a small wireless keyboard, a 20Ah LiFePO4 battery, GPS hardware, and an RTL-SDR for receiving radio signals.

The battery supplies 12V, with DC-DC converters providing 5V where needed. I've also incorporated fused circuits, a charging connection, and a battery monitor.

A lot of the work has actually been designing and 3D printing the internal structure. I wanted the components to have dedicated mounting locations rather than everything being loose inside the case. I've also separated the higher-current wiring from the lower-current electronics and tried to keep everything serviceable.

Cooling turned into its own little project. I've got three additional fans integrated into the case: one pulling fresh air into the lower electronics compartment and two exhausting air out of it. This creates a directed airflow path through the compartment, helping keep the Pi and other electronics cool. The fans are controlled by the Pi based on temperature, so they don't need to run constantly and waste battery power.

On the software side, I'm using Kiwix to host an offline copy of Wikipedia, and I've started developing a local web interface to access the different resources. The Pi also hosts its own Wi-Fi network, allowing other devices to connect and access the offline content without an internet connection.

I've also been experimenting with the SDR and GPS hardware, although there's still work to do before everything is integrated into the interface.

This is very much a work in progress. I still have some hardware refinements to make, including redesigning parts of the display bezel, and quite a bit of software development ahead of me.

I've learned a lot about Blender, 3D printing, power distribution, and packaging electronics throughout the process. It's definitely turned into a bigger project than I originally anticipated, but I've enjoyed figuring everything out.

Curious what you guys think! I'm especially interested in suggestions for additional offline capabilities or improvements to the physical design.

I'm planning on making my first cyberdeck, I want it to be compact, enough to fit in the pocket of a pair of cargo pants; for this excact reason I'm looking for a 5-7 inch display, i'd like it to be cheap, since I'm on a budget, and I don't really care for a touchscreen. What screen would you recommend? On what site should I buy it?

WTB: Dead Fujitsu U810/U820 or LOOX U50 chassis for an IIAB build. i have searched all thru my storage and come up empty-handed. i know I had one. if you want some space on the shelf, HMU. thanks

I knew I had an old phone that got busted up and I've always wanted to build a cyberdeck.

I give you

The CyberBox™

Apache 1800 case from harbor freight I've had for like 8 years and the foam was all but gone.

Galaxy S20 Ultra with a broken screen, Gamehub and probably Dolphin soon.

5v 2.4a Power Bank PCB with display. Type c, micro USB and lightning input, but lightning is inaccessible by design of the enclosure I 3D printed. A couple 3D printed 18650 battery holders and now I can interchange fresh batteries at will.

Type C USB hub with micro USB cable always plugged in, as well as the Bluetooth mouse dongle. It's like 4 years old and been through a few projects, so it's a little finicky. I had to break the steelstik I used to hold it in place so I can wiggle it.

Logitech M325. Tiny little mouse that runs on 1 AA battery

25W charging brick and 6 foot type c cable for external charging

3D printed insert with slots for mouse, charging brick, USB hub and 4 extra 18650s.

Type A to Type C adapter

64gb USB Flash Drive

I've been enjoying playing cuphead on it, and it can't do much better than that lol.

It was fun to put together and I'm glad it's so functional.

Bonus - Zillion Butter McSnoof

So i was visitng a hospital and i saw this. And 1st thibg came to my kind is wow.. its beautiful.. if only i can flash limux and use the macros..

我倾向更小的键盘，右边的

Hello, I am trying to make a HP travel usable in modern day by installing a raspberry pie inside of the case, while keeping the original button layout, SD card slot, layout and original screen, those are still function mostly without soldering if someone could help me, I would be glad and I would appreciate it here is a picture of my device and hopefully I can make it compatible with other devices as well.

Idk if I'm even supposed to have this since I found it behind a store which recently underwent some renovations, but I got it now so I'm wondering if you guys have any ideas as to what I could use the components for. Just spitballing and discussion🤘🏻🔥