r/cyberDeck

I know some of these devices aren’t necessarily “cyber deck related” but they do help me carry out my pentesting tasks faster, so I thought I would show them off in a post. Before I get a thousand comments asking what the red/fleshy thing is with antennas sticking out, it’s essentially a homemade WiFi pineapple. It was at one point mounted to the touchscreen display I have, but I took it off because of the weight. If anyone has any recommendations on how to make my cyberdeck more portable, I’m all ears. :) Also, if anyone is curios about parts, don’t hesitate to ask me. :)

Simply a widescreen monitor, Raspberry Pi, and battery mounted on a wooden base. Cable-free with a PC mobile keyboard and wireless mouse. A part of the case's laminated board was being filed down to accommodate the adapter connector. The monitor's kickstand is used as is.

This is my take on a pi flux-inspired cyberdeck. It's pretty basic in comparison to the real thing by carbon computers but I just wanted to reuse an old pi zero 2 and an 5" adafruit screen I had laying around. Will post more pics as this progresses...

I saw this video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/imEQYq-X4yA, and I searched for the device, which is called LoRa LR2021.
Normally, it's quite hard to show a video on a LoRa device, but the device looks like it can transmit video information between two devices.
It is hard to confirm what technology it uses, even though its name contains 'LoRa'. Maybe it's just WiFi Halo.

the expansion slots are supposed to be usb-c female connections but idk it's just an idea and I know what's in my head isn't always gonna truly translate to real life also I was thinking the size the around the size of a game boy but like I said idk if that would work

Newbie to CS and electrical engineering here, inspired by some of you incredibly talented people. I want to build a cyberdeck for producing electronic music. I have looked into a lot of things that I will need.
But what I WANT to do is salvage some components from an old Akai MPD midi controller that has been sitting in my garage for five years. Does anyone have experience taking one of these apart? What might I need to connect pads and sliders from it to a raspberry pi? or is this a lost cause?
I am going to be using a beautiful silverware case as the body of the cyberdeck, it will be a little larger than most of the ones I have seen on this sub, I might even have room to drop this whole akai board into the bottom drawer.

So I can't lie, I kind of went collected a couple stream boxes to make emulator machines.. side load retro arch or whatever, call it a day, gifts for friends or what not. Looking at the ports and specs, I was wondering if anyone ever used the board for a cyberdeck. A few questions and concerns.

1. I know these stream boxes were riddled with malware, is there a way to detect and element anything malicious?

2. I know rooting android to replace the os with Linux is probably out of my ability... can I emulate Linux and avoid any potential malware that way?

If anyone has done anything beyond emulators with these I would love examples or ideas.

I made this custom arcade controller and definitely felt some cyberpunk/cyberdeck builder vibes while I was working on it.

​Credit to Banksy for the graffiti.

Credit to gp2040 community edition for the firmware I used in the raspberry pi Pico that powers the screen.

Credit to me for CAD design, printing, assembly, wiring, soldering, and testing.

The screen shows the mode (currently x-input), current button and joystick presses, as well as a history of presses. It can do macros and many other things.

Latency within the controller is too small for me to measure. Supposedly just a few microseconds.

Features:

• integrated art
• flush press, rimless buttons
• no surface fasteners
• print in place buttons allow the art to cross the surface of the controller easily

Still to do:

• move pi pico to edge of controller to allow for external usb-c connection. Right now the pico is kinda flopping around in there with an external wire connected to it.
• improve wiring / wire routing
• more support for joystick side
• Pinball style sidebuttons

I wanna build my own cyberdeck but I don't have a lot of stuff to do it nor the funds at this current moment, so if anyone could find info or has knowledge on these devices it would be a great help

This is my first cyberdeck. I’ve been working on it for around a month. It features a Nuphy Air60 v2 kb, a Waveshare 11.9 display, Raspberry Pi 4 and a USB Hat powering the whole thing with two 18650 batteries. The interface is a customized tmux with a custom login screen. The case was designed in FreeCAD.

Mini modular cyberdeck using Raspberry Pi 4, Adafruit RTC shim, Waveshare screen case, Rii mini keeb, 20000mAh power bank, some assorted hardware and bumper pads to put it all together, and a camera case and individual bags for all of the components to keep it all in and safe on the go. Runs Ubuntu 24.04 with the MATE desktop (effectively Ubuntu MATE upon running 'apt install ubuntu-mate-desktop') in glorious low-res 800x480 on a wonderful IPS screen. I actually get a lot of use out of this thing, especially in combination with a lapdock when I need to run larger graphical applications.

this is going somewhere

Hello cyberdeck internet, I been trying to build my own cyberdeck for the past few days and been stuck so need some advice on this and have bought a few wrong screens .

I got a raspberry pi zero w and 3.5 inch rpi display but I have tried rebooting and resetting but I can seem to be able to login or set up my display. I have use Claude or chat gpt to troubleshoot and reboot but nothing seem to be working . Anyone able to advice on what I am doing wrong ? This is the current screen