(Pardon my piss poor photography skills, I did my best with what I had. Also, I made this post BEFORE the launch, I forgot to put it in here too lol)

After beginning this project with the first draft all the way back to November, then piecing it together in a livestream in December, I left it on the backburner for a little while because Life™ got busy... fast forward three months later, I started the CAD work to give it a proper cubic shape, which is something I intended to give it from the start since I didn't want to leave things half assed like most "DIY Steam Machine" project (nearly all of them being a regular ass PC, half the time not even Small Form Factor, under Bazzite because they couldn't bother with SteamOS for some reason)

There has been several rounds of iterating of course, scrupulous parts measurements & tedious geometry adjustments, thinking long and hard about how to pass cables properly through the device, getting all of the features of the actual Machine & more on top of the buffed up hardware, that's been a whole adventure!

Total BOM of the parts I bought, 1500 european buckaridoos (3D printer & plastic spools not included); 9600X, 32GB@5600 (bought before the RAMaggeddon), 9060XT 16GB, 1.5TB storage (originally 500GB but I took the 1TB NVMe out of my PS5, which I haven't touched in over two years now...), added video & audio, DVD reading, extended I/O & storage compartment, all at the cost of weight & size (though I managed to keep it much more restrained than I thought it would end up being!) & TDP is about 200W (after nerfing the GPU power budget by 25%) with far superior performance & more modern features!

All of the details pertaining to the GeekCube project are available on its original project thread, I posted here first while it's still the weekend & before the reviews of the Machine drop in the coming days!

BEAT VALVE TO THE PUNCH, AHA! 🍾🥳🎉

(Pardon my piss poor photography skills, I did my best with what I had.)

After beginning this project with the first draft all the way back to November, then piecing it together in a livestream in December, I left it on the backburner for a little while because Life™ got busy... fast forward three months later, I started the CAD work to give it a proper cubic shape, which is something I intended to give it from the start since I didn't want to leave things half assed like most "DIY Steam Machine" project (nearly all of them being a regular ass PC, half the time not even Small Form Factor, under Bazzite because they couldn't bother with SteamOS for some reason)

There has been several rounds of iterating of course, scrupulous parts measurements & tedious geometry adjustments, thinking long and hard about how to pass cables properly through the device, getting all of the features of the actual Machine & more on top of the buffed up hardware, that's been a whole adventure!

Total BOM of the parts I bought, 1500 european buckaridoos (3D printer & plastic spools not included); 32GB RAM, 16GB RAM, 1.5TB storage (originally 500GB but I took the NVMe out of my PS5, which I haven't touched in over two years now...), a*(Pardon my piss poor photography skills, I did my best with what I had.)*

All of the details pertaining to the GeekCube project are available on its original project thread, I posted here first while it's still the weekend & before the reviews of the Machine drop in the coming days!

BEAT VALVE TO THE PUNCH, AHA! 🍾🥳🎉

(Pardon my piss poor photography skills, I did my best with what I had.)

After beginning this project with the first draft all the way back to November, then piecing it together in a livestream in December, I left it on the backburner for a little while because Life™ got busy... fast forward three months later, I started the CAD work to give it a proper cubic shape, which is something I intended to give it from the start since I didn't want to leave things half assed like most "DIY Steam Machine" project (nearly all of them being a regular ass PC, half the time not even Small Form Factor, under Bazzite because they couldn't bother with SteamOS for some reason)

There has been several rounds of iterating of course, scrupulous parts measurements & tedious geometry adjustments, thinking long and hard about how to pass cables properly through the device, getting all of the features of the actual Machine & more on top of the buffed up hardware, that's been a whole adventure!

Total BOM of the parts I bought, 1500 european buckaridoos (3D printer & plastic spools not included); 32GB RAM, 16GB VRAM, 1.5TB storage (originally 500GB but I took the 1TB NVMe out of my PS5, which I haven't touched in over two years now...), added video & audio, DVD reading, extended I/O & storage compartment, all at the cost of weight & size (though I managed to keep it much more restrained than I thought it would end up being!) & TDP is about 200W (after nerfing the GPU power budget by 25%) with far superior performance & more modern features!

All of the details pertaining to the GeekCube project are available on its original project thread, I posted here first while it's still the weekend & before the reviews of the Machine drop in the coming days!

BEAT VALVE TO THE PUNCH, AHA! 🍾🥳🎉

Hey there folks, GUI user here!

I am... less than skilled with software I can't see and am just not good with manipulating Linux systems via console but I'm looking to fixing this :)

I found out about "TUI" as a thing fairly recently, I just assumed a TUI was just a GUI with CLI terminals arranged in tiles, having one on one of my devices should help "force" me to use commands in order to control my device, learning keyboard-only navigation at the same time, so benefits all around

Also, because I recently got introduced to the the concept of cyberdecks and since I am rather quite proficient with hardware, I've set focus onto making my own and for various reasons -one less peripheral, virtually no GPU strain, compute & energy efficient, etc...- whatever OS I end up installing on the ARM-based SBC I'm basing this project on, I'd like to install a TUI environment as well...

Except since I've never used one before, I don't have the faintest idea how to navigate this whole "category" at all, pick one and install it (I'm actually not even sure what kind of OS I should install on my SBC in the first place but my time on Linux so far taught me this shouldn't matter too much?)

If any of y'all got recommendations for a TUI DE that's lightweight, efficient & feature complete, that would be very much appreciated :D

Hey there folks!

I am starting drafts for my very own cyberdeck but I didn't want it to look like yet another Blackberry lookalike and have something *actually* original for once, any of y'all got any knowledge of a "switchblade" extendable keyboard like this? I looked it up in many places but nothing turned up and I don't want those 2/3 panels foldable travel keyboard, something that actually extends like pictured, that would be great!

Thanks in advance.

As it turns out, I am very good at measuring precise dimensions with a hand ruler and the good ol' Mk. I Eyeball :D There's obviously a bunch of things that could use improvements but that's why I made a prototype haha!

First time I designed something that complex; printed something that complex; used Orca slicer; used a Bambu printer and honestly, despite being that "inexperienced" in all of these, the result is remarkably good, so much more than I thought it would turn out...

Now I know I can get rid of nearly all supports, I just gotta change some of the geometry inside & adjust some settings to improve quality at the front end (this I/O front is honestly disappointing, the surface the screen is supposed to be velcro'd on is even worse...)

GPU exhaust is surprisingly perfect, the DVD reader fits *perfectly*, even with the extra thickness for the velcro strips! Need to reposition the lock screw by mere millimeters, slightly adjust the GPU intake frame, etc...

It's probably gonna take me a while and I've got a ton of other prints to run so I guess the next update of the GeekCube won't be before next week! Maybe by then, Valve will have announced the release/price of the OG GabeCube, eh?

It is 1:40AM on SATURDAY here, it's DIY posting time! No SGF news huh... Oh well, at least we still got confirmation for a summer launch at least!

I *JUST* got my new 3D printer in the mail a couple days ago (yes, I know, Bambu bad, see part at the bottom), which means the Geek Cube is nearing completion! Setup up a nice flat base to put it on, ran all the calibrations, dried out a couple spools and I even finished the setup & received the spools today!

Frankly speaking, the PC aspect of the build is already *functionally* complete, the stuff I wanted to put in it is all already there, I'm just wrapping it all up in a nice & practical custom case but the process involved is still a challenge! That said, with all the recent backend changes we've seen Valve put in at a surprising pace these past few days, I am wondering if we're seeing a spool up in the preparations leading to a near launch of the Steam Machine?? Now, I'm curious to see whichever of Valve and I are gonna de facto rollout a finished/polished Gaming Steam Cube first so I say, RACE ON!

I honestly would find it VERY funny if I lost! I never used a Bambu before (we're coming to my printer choice, hold on) so this is inevitably require a little bit of testing, messing around with things, see how that works out and how to set it up for the final version my Cube (never used PETG before and I've been told it's not exactly beginner/basic user friendly), not to mention I'm "sacrificing" the print time for a first prototype (VERY unlikely to be able to declare a finished product on the first attempt), there's a buncha things I could be getting off by nothing, there's only so much I can get right with a metal hand ruler & the good ol' "Mk. I Eyeball"...

Now, some of you might know about the bad buzz Bambu Labs is going through and I said, let me be clear: FUCK 'EM, the whole lot of them for blatantly violating the AGPL licence they are supposed to comply to when they forked open source code to make their own slicer.

Bambu software bad BUT, Bambu hardware good. Honestly, nobody even comes close; Prusa makes quality printers but their ecosystem doesn't even touch Bambu's, all their printers are hella pricey and they don't even have a properly mature multifilament system available (yet), Creality sacrifices the quality of their printers for their margins to the detriment of product quality and lifetime, Sovol is open source but I don't want to make my own modules, I want something that works right away (and frankly their lineup is borderline a joke), there's other brands of course but certainly not with the featureset & quality level Bambu's hardware provides, so I picked that H2D+AMS for those reasons.

New wallet drain printer! First and second print make more of a progress "wallclimb" than a progress curve but eh, it prints or it don't, I'll figure that's a good test of bambu's printer quality (or my CAD skills :P)

Sorry mods, I know we're not during a weekend but please hold on before removing this!
This is not strictly about my DIY build itself ^(more in jest about whenever the Machine will actually launch :P)

I *JUST* got my new 3D printer in the mail today (yes, I know, Bambu bad, see part at the bottom), which means the Geek Cube is nearing completion! BUT I haven't finished the setup, didn't receive the spools yet, hell, I don't even have the flat board I need to set the printer on to perform a proper calibration!

Frankly speaking, my build is already *functionally* complete, the stuff I wanted to put in it is all already there, I'm just wrapping it all up in a nice & practical custom case but the process involved is still a challenge! That said, with all the recent backend changes we've seen Valve put in at a surprising pace these past few days, I am wondering if we're seeing a spool up in the preparations leading to a near launch of the Steam Machine?? Now, I'm curious to see whichever of Valve and I are gonna de facto rollout a finish Gaming Steam Cube first so I say, RACE ON!

I honestly would find it VERY funny if I lost! I never used a Bambu before (we're coming to my printer choice, hold on) so this is inevitably require a little bit of testing, messing around with things, see how that works out and how to set it up for my Cube, not to mention I WILL "sacrifice" the print time for a first prototype I likely will not be able to declare a finished product, there's a buncha things I'm getting off by nothing, there's only so much I can get right with a metal hand ruler and the good ol' "Mk. I Eyeball"

Now, some of you might know about the bad buzz Bambu Labs is going through and I said, let me be clear: FUCK EM, the whole lot for blatantly violating the AGPL licence they are supposed to agree to when they forked open source code to make their own slicer.

Bambu software bad BUT, Bambu hardware good. Honestly, nobody even comes close; Prusa makes quality printers but their ecosystem doesn't even touch Bambu's, all their printers are hella pricey and they don't even have a properly mature multifilament system available (yet), Creality sacrifices the quality of their printers for their margins to the detriment of product quality and lifetime, Sovol is open source but I don't want to make my own modules, I want something that works right away (I'm a big proponent of FOSS so good for them to provide OSH but frankly their lineup is borderline a joke), there's other brands of course but certainly not with the featureset & quality level Bambu's hardware provides, so I picked that H2D+AMS for those reasons.

Cheers fellas, truly has been an amazing time, to the next 100 and the 100 after that!

this is V4, rev. 3 -or something- of the CAD for the case, now featuring :

• a MUCH more ergonomic I/O access (+I/O position corrections)
• proper grills at the exhausts
• recesses for velcro strips (for the GPU intake), case stickers & rubber feet
• passthrough for the power cable (USB-C) of the front screen
• a small storage for wifi antennas + short cables

I haven't added the connector holder for the HDMI ribbon to the screen and am waiting on delivery of the ultrathin DVD reader I'm gonna put just under the peripherals drawer but this is VERY promising!

AND I've put in the order for my new 3D printer so I'll be able to make a prototype to fit check everything very soon! I got a first print from a friend that let me correct for a small front I/O deviation, it was off by almost nothing but that was enough to make it unusable :P

link to the project thread this cube is for

Hi there PCMR folks

I have a small project on my hands, making my own Steam Machine and I stumbled on a little bit of a pickle: my motherboard does not have any ARGB headers (see second pic) as it was not designed to support any at all... Any of you out there know how an ARGB controller powered and controlled via USB? I just need a single header to add the RGB bar in the gap below the front screen like on the actual GabeCube :P

Thank you for your time!