You’d think that now that the 2022 Cyberdeck Contest is wrapped up, we’d stop writing about it. Sorry, but no — there were so many great entries that we just can’t help but keep focusing on them. And this wearable hybrid interface cyberdeck has a look we love so much that we can’t resist spotlighting it.
We wouldn’t go so far as to call the “hgDeck” a PipBoy, but [Igor Brkić]’s wrist-worn deck certainly bears some similarity with to the Fallout-famous terminal. In fact, the design for this one is based on his earlier hgTerm Raspberry Pi mini-laptop, which honestly would have made a great entry all by itself. But while the two version shares some similarities, the hgDeck puts a serious twist on the form factor. In the stowed configuration, the Pi Zero W puts the main display, a 3.5″ Waveshare TFT, to work using the resistive touchscreen interface. But with the flick of a finger, a motor flips the monitor up on a set of pantograph linkages, which exposes a compact Bluetooth keyboard. Another touch stows the screen and returns you to touchscreen-only operation.
There were a fair number of wrist-worn decks in the contest’s final results, and while this one didn’t win, [Igor]’s build has got to be one of the cooler designs we’ve seen, one that almost seems practical in the real world.
So cool!
But where is the radiation monitor?
B^)
I’d love to see a second iteration of this design, switch to a custom PCB or two and you can fit it all in a much neater thinner package, perhaps use a CM4 (or similar alternative) for a little more performance as well.
The idea though is awsome, and even this execution looks good. Something resembling actual buttons with real haptic feedback is always soo soo much nicer than typing on a touch screen. The opening mechanism is very cool, and with a little tweaking could really be both slimmer and sturdy.
I was SO not expecting how cool the motorized keyboard reveal would look!
Fantastic! Love the power lid ! Totally unexpected! Getting closer to Taranga Leela’s wrist computer.