Red Raven cyberdeck

Then there’s the battery: again, there’s a de facto standard with power for beginner cyberdecks, and that’s to use a USB power pack. This build takes a different approach, using a 20V battery from the maker’s electric drill. The choice of battery, keyboard, and colour scheme combine to give a sense that this is a tool rather than a toy. And while having the battery on one edge apparently makes the build a little heavier on that side, it looks so good that it just doesn’t matter.

Rather than the usual Raspberry Pi at the heart of this cyberdeck, this one uses a LattePanda V1 which had been gathering dust. For those not familiar with this platform, LattePanda is a single-board computer that uses the Intel Atom processor, meaning that it can run the Windows operating system. Which is great if you like the sort of thing, but in a cyberpunk future we’d much rather be using some sort of Linux. Which brings us nicely to the other hacker-friendly features: there’s an Arduino Leonardo and a Raspberry Pi Pico built in, with the GPIO pins of each device nicely broken out on the top of the cyberdeck for hardware tinkering on the move.