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I cannot recommend enough that your first step is putting all the software you want on the pi first, AND TURNING THE SSH SERVER ON before you do anything. The number of times I plugged everything in to the pi, couldn't get the drivers for the screen to work, and had to unplug everything over and over was infuriating. You can always turn it back off once you get everything working the way you want.
yellow duck for scale
That little chip is my 18650 battery charger. My battery pack is 4 18650 batteries wired in parallel, Which go to that glowing red button, which then goes to a boost converter chip that takes the voltage up to 5V, and those then go to the 5V and ground GPIO pins on the Pi. My cable management was not great, but without sawing into the commodore case more, and with the push button I had to sacrifice having a pretty build for having a functional build.
RasPi 3 under the hood. I was considering a raspi 4 but the power drain, and extra hassle with the micro hdmi ports convinced me to stick with the previous version. Since most of my work doesn't require a mouse, I'm using a touch screen in case I need to click on something. Otherwise it's mostly in terminal. You can also just barely see the 3.5mm headphone jack extender above the keyboard. I still wanted to be able to listen to music/watch a movie or whatever, and having that little extender fit the bill nicely.
Dog hair tax.
These were actually super helpful during setup. I decided on having these two USB extension cables hanging out because I do a lot of wireless traffic analysis/fun stuff. Being able to swap out a bluetooth dongle or a 2nd wifi antenna, or even just a wireless mouse made these worth the money.
The display I used had exposed circuitry in the back so I put some wooden slats on the back and then attached those to friction hinges to make the screen easily adjustable. It was harder to find friction hinges at a home depot or carpentry shop than I thought it would be. Those ones have a resistance of 0.1 Newton-meter. The first hinges I got were 0.9 N*m and that was way too much friction. I'll keep that in mind for the next version I make.
This keyboard. Ohhh this keyboard. I wish I picked literally anything else. The fit was perfect for my needs but the built in software is a Titanic hindrance. Probably going to swap it out later.
DO NOT BUY THE MOTOSPEED 60% BOARD AT ALL COSTS
My daily driver keyb. Tealios switches (except for the arrow keys, which are gateron blues). GMK laser keycaps on a Melody96 case. Love this thing. Not related to my cyberdeck build but I think it's pretty cool.
If you have questions or want to see the other stuff I do please feel free to check out my website:
www.HughMungis.com