Want to make a cyberdeck with a caboodle. Tell me what I need to know or a good place to start :) have never built a computer ( or cyberdeck ) but I can do anything, and it literally cannot be that hard.
>>108548418aliexpress.comyou need:>screen>keyboard>low power computer, one of the orangepis or similar>passive cooler>ssd>rubber gaskets>nuts, bolts, washers>cables>usb3 adapters and expanders for ports on the outside: ethernet adapter, wifi adapter, usb2 ports, SD card reader, serial port, soundcard, usb-c, S-video and so on>female ends of all ports facing outsideYou'll want to glue or otherwise air and waterproof the holes for the ports.>big battery>small LCD screen to display info>switches: on/off, rfkill, You'll want to reinforce corners and edges and use metal hinges. The tools you'll need:>dremel>soldering iron and solder>knife, scissors>rulerIf you want to make custom PCBs, there are Chinese companies on aliexpress and ebay that will make you a custom PCB out of a diagram. They have software that optimizes the pathways.You might want or need a custom PCB for the screen controller, for example.It will probably cost you ~$1k to build a cyberdeck that you'd be satisfied with.
>>108548607Oh and btw. You should test everything out on a breadboard before you solder anything, so I guess you'll need one of those too. Then you should assemble it outside of the case to make sure it all works, and then fit it into the case.
>>108548418if it isn't hard it isn't a cyberdeck, the faggots who have managed to turn a very serious concept and turn it into a childs toy piss me off so badit's a hack you faggot, it's untracable, no one's even supposed to know you have onebuying all the bits online and assembling them according to some guide you found and installing a shit OS that runs like frozen molasses isn't a fucking cyberdeck, it's a kit for retards who spend way too much money on something they wont fucking useif you're going to build a cyberdeck find an old machine somewhere, rip it's guts out, remake the thing in a way no one ever considered, make it portable, make it secure, and make it your own, and keep it to your fucking selfthe people who take a dremel to old consoles to make them portable have made a more "cyber" deck than anything you've come up with
