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The sudden growth in cyberdeck projects comes out of the convergence of three things: 1. The mechanical keyboard DIY and modding community. 2. The availabilit
by nrp 4y ago
The sudden growth in cyberdeck projects comes out of the convergence of three things:
1. The mechanical keyboard DIY and modding community.
2. The availability of small ultrawide LCDs, mostly from the automotive space.
3. The Raspberry Pi ecosystem.
We're basically enabling that community with a higher power x86 option.
- regularfry 4y agoFunnily enough the original EEE PC 701 happened (in part) because of the availability of automotive parts, in particular the screen. Same spec as the built-in sat-nav units that started to trickle into the mainstream in the 1998-2003 era.
- AlanYx 4y agoI think another big part of it is a desire to return to "personal computing" in the personal sense, as a reaction against subscription everything, sandboxed app everything, polished everything. Cyberdecks are under your control, from the design to the keyboard, and a person is probably more likely to be running something personal like Emacs on these machines than some Electron groupware.