awesome-cyberdeck

A curated list about pocket computers, often called cyberdecks with resources to help you choosing or building yours, collect inspiration to extend yours or just spend time in a rabbit hole of tech ;)

Contents

• Overview
• Open Hardware Products
  • DIY Kits
  • DIY all the way
  • Video Tutorials
  • Articles
• Commercially available Products
• Projects to do with your Cyberdeck
  • WiFi coverage analysis
  • Mobile audio / video recording and editing studio
• Useful Software
  • Operating Systems
  • CLI Tools
  • GUI Tools
• Accessories
  • Crafting Tools

Overview

General overview about pocket computers and cyberdecks

• (TODO) What is a cyberdeck (link to a short description, maybe Wikipedia)
• (TODO) History (find good article)

Open Hardware

• Pilet - 7 hour battery life based on Raspi5 - announced to be open-sourced once engineering completed

DIY-Kits

These can be bought as a DIY set or different parts can be bought that then need to be assembled to complete the cyberdeck.

DIY all-the-way

For these you cannot buy pre-manufactured casings and stuff at the point of adding them to this list. This might have changed in the meantime.

• Boostbox
• BenMakesEverything
• Decktility
• Framedeck
• Pi 5 based 3D printed
• QAZ

Video Tutorials

• BenMakesEverything

Articles

TODO

Semi-Commercial (uses commercial parts at least)

• Mainboard Terminal - Retro Style - based on Framework Laptop Mainboard

Commercial

The commercially available products are listed here. Currently they are planned to be grouped by the price. TODO: maybe use a table to allow direct comparison of specs and features? The prices might change (significantly in case of component "shortages" etc.)

Below $100?

• Raspberry Pi-based? (find example)

$100 - $300

• ClockworkPi

$300 and above

• MNT Pocket Reform

Useful software

Operating Systems

• RaspberryPI OS
• Debian

CLI Tools

TODO

GUI Tools

TODO

Accessories

Crafting tools

To initially build and later extend/repair your device, some tools might be necessary

• A 3D-Printer
  • Look for a local makerspace so you don't have to buy one on your own
  • If there is no local makerspace - maybe this is the time for you to initiate one ;)
  • If you really think you need to own one:
  • Filaments:
• Precision screwdrivers
• Drills
• Soldering/electronics tools
  • soldering iron + holder
  • solder wire
  • multimeter to check PCBs and components
  • Components
    • LEDs! Everyone loves LEDs.
    • Set of basic resistor values for 5V circuits
    • A handful of diodes, transistors
• Screws and nuts / press-in threaded inserts - sizes depend on the model you choose

Contribute

Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines first.

Acknowledgements

• Thanks to @dar5hak for making https://github.com/dar5hak/generator-awesome-list which helped me starting this project so easily

License

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0