Dual-screen cyberdeck
By Andrew Gregory. Posted
We love a nice cyberdeck build, and this one by Sector 07 has everything we want from one. It’s built on a Raspberry Pi 5, it’s fully 3D-printed, and all the design files are on GitHub for anyone to come along and have a go themselves. Three custom circuit boards, designed in KiCad, break out the GPIO pins from the Raspberry Pi. These boards were made by PCBWay – if you need a tutorial or three on how to design and get boards manufactured, you’re in luck, as we’ve featured getting designs fabricated by an external service in this and the previous two issues.
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The maker has added a few unique touches to make this cyberdeck more useful than just a laptop. There’s a linear slider, which can be used to control volume. There are four programmable buttons, for whatever hotkeys the user so wishes to program.
And there’s a rotary encoder with a push button, which is also programmable. There’s a Qwiic connector at the back of the device for attaching I2C sensors. And there’s also a full complement of GPIO pins exposed, so that you can connect any HAT. Both screens can rotate 90 degrees – there’s a mechanical stop inside each mechanism so that the user doesn’t accidentally over-rotate and damage the cables. The Raspberry Pi’s SD card is accessible too, so you don’t have to take the whole Raspberry Pi out to change OS images (though you can, as the maker has designed it to be easy to remove).
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