Show HN: I built my first Cyberdeck

I like the slab form factors (One of my first portable computers was a Tandy Model 100) but I cannot understand how someone uses a keyboard that ...doesn&#x27;t have at least all the letters and numbers and period&#x2F;backslash&#x2F;colon etc... especially for programming!<p>I mean I get by reading a bit from the hackaday post that there are combos or &#x27;chords&#x27; and so I guess you are meant to memorize these chord claw combinations for things, and yes I see the videos of people claiming it can be fast etc etc but....<p>man I just don&#x27;t get how someone could just unlearn the muscle memory of a normal keyboard layout. I had a partner with a Spanish layout keyboard macbook where a just a few keys are mixed around compared to ANSI and even after sitting with it many times it was still nearly un-useable for me... and that was just a few keys swapped around!<p>I have noticed all the people building and using these reduced-key-count keyboards on youtube are all very young people. So maybe it has something to do with still having a pliable brain and not having decades of muscle memory to get past.

The world needs more slabtops. They&#x27;re my favourite form-factor of all time for writing anything creative. Feels like a typewriter.

Please run your graphics through a web-friendly compression format before sticking them inline auto-loaded @ the provided url.<p>Those image file sizes are bonkers for what I&#x27;m trying to look at.

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackaday.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;10&#x2F;22&#x2F;2022-cyberdeck-contest-qaz-personal-terminal" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackaday.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;10&#x2F;22&#x2F;2022-cyberdeck-contest-qaz-p...</a><p>I do wish there were more slabtops

This is pretty neat. As someone who frequently uses an iPad mini with a foldable Bluetooth keyboard (and who is typing this on the on-screen one right now), I like the idea of having a little UNIX machine on the go, and I like the idea of QAZ (I have been looking at QMK and other custom keyboard firmwares for a while).<p>Right now I use a-Shell and iSH to have surprisingly powerful CLI sandboxes in iOS, but having a normal userland would be great.<p>Curious about weight and (metric) dimensions, though. Thickness (or lack thereof) is one of the advantages of my current setup.

Looks great, for the SBC, a nvidia jetson based might also be a great option, something like jetson nano&#x2F;NX as they have the same power delivery.

I love the look, but can someone explain to me what sort of things you would do with a computer of this form factor? Why do people keep building them? Is is just looks? Or is there something they&#x27;re good at.<p>To be clear, I&#x27;m not looking for something you can&#x27;t do already (your phone does everything), but something that a cyberdeck computer would _excel_ at.

There&#x27;s a whole gang of cyberdeck builders over at the cyberdeck.cafe Discord if anyone is interested in the hobby! The original creator of this design is a regular there and we&#x27;re always willing to help newcomers.

Lol, well there goes 60mb of mobile data for some people...

This was very good-looking, and a good write-up!<p>I don&#x27;t know the author&#x27;s background in (practical) electronics work, but as an embedded developer and long-time hobbyist: obviously there are solutions for de-soldering things that don&#x27;t involve dremeling them to atomic dust. I&#x27;m just saying.

Awesome build. However my first reaction was &quot;I have RSI just looking at it&quot;

This looks great! Any more details on the software and settings you used? Looks like it would be a perfect fit for my trusty old VAIO P.

i want not this but a device between scientific calculator and smartphone with 720&#x2F;480 display one framework like expendable port, qwerty keyboard may be some functions of flipper zero

Define: cyberdeck

Do your photos have to be so gigantic?