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I always love these cool cyberdeck style builds but whenever the bug to build my own catches me, I end up realizing i'm just trying to build a really bad notebo
by dtx1 2y ago
I always love these cool cyberdeck style builds but whenever the bug to build my own catches me, I end up realizing i'm just trying to build a really bad notebook.
- sneak 2y agoYeah. This would be great if it could emulate usb storage, do transparent bridging via switch vlans, support serial consoles, etc, but it is just a case, battery, disk, and bad keyboard.
- fragmede 2y agoraspberry pi's support USB gadget mode, and can thus emulate USB storage with the right connector. TTL-level serial port pins exist as well.
- pests 2y agoThis is how the PiKVM works. It pretends to be a hub with an attached mouse/keyboard (and optionally a flash drive/storage) Then optionally you can connect your motherboards power/reset pins so you can reboot or turn off remotely. Video is a third party HDMI capture card that plugs into the Pis camera port.
- andrewaylett 2y agoThere's nothing particularly stopping you implementing at least most of that in software if you want. Stick a suitably-programmable switch in and you could do the rest too.
- sneak 2y agoExactly my point - this project seems of limited usefulness because it could have done a lot more but didn’t add much utility that a pi+screen+keyboard doesn’t already have.
- ansible 2y agoYes, these are cool and fun projects, but not something I'd use on a regular basis. I've bought a few old Chromebooks off of eBay recently (for around $20 USD each), and re-flashed the BIOS so that I could install Debian on them. The student-oriented Chromebooks are reasonably sturdy, and at that price point, I just don't care if something bad happens to it.