What’s the fastest way to master console stuff like screen or emacs? Force yourself to use it exclusively, of course. But maybe you’d be tempted to cheat with a desktop. We know we would be. In that case, you ought to build a console-only cyberdeck like this sweet little thing by [a8skh4].
This cyberdeck serves another purpose as well — the keyboard layout is Miryoku, so [a8ksh4] can get more practice with that at the same time. Fortunately, the layout is built for emacs.
Inside is a Raspberry Pi 4 and what looks to be an Arduino handling the keyboard input. The Paper Pi spotlights a 4.2″ e-ink screen between a split thumb keyboard that’s made of soft, silent, tactile switches.
Since they’re SMD, [a8ksh4] made clever use of header pins to get them to work with protoboard. As much as we love the keyboard, it would be awesome to see a few switches on the shoulders or even the back that make use of the rest of the fingers. Check out more build pictures in the gallery.
We love to see cyberdecks with split keyboards, because you shouldn’t have to sacrifice ergonomics in a portable computer. Here’s one that comes in three pieces, making it easy to get the spacing between the halves just right.
Via r/cyberdeck
Yes…
I know what my next project will be now.
That’s looking bossy! I like the piece .
Personally I like the twisted pairs.
You don’t see enough twisted pairs in projects these days. If you can get hold of the end of those big rolls of network cable, sometimes people throw them out, they make for great sources of coloured wire.
Reminds me of the Samsung Q1
Wow, the quality of the case and how the final build turned out is excellent.
Would be a sweet gaming handheld.
“Why on the planet Earth,you would do it?!” the build…