This is mocked up with mdf. The real deal will be made of black and white sheet HDPE sheet stock, maybe some lexan here and there…

Raspberry Pi 4 8GB (in cast aluminum armor/heatsink), Redragon 60% mechanical keyboard, corsair optical mouse, bcm and 30000mAh staged battery capacity (works out to around 8 or nine hours), and a 7" touch hdmi screen that is not connected or visible in the frame.

Of course, it will not only run off mains, it will do so simultaneously with recharging.

Firmware is updated to boot from any suitably configured USB device, and currently outfitted with raspberrypiOS+home dir each on it’s own 32GB PNY USB thumb drive.

no nonsense unpowered usb3 hub.

It’s gettin’ there :)

Up next: cellular data capability.

Oh I also have solar capability for recharging in the rough.

  • sparseMatrixOPM
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    3 years ago

    If you got here from the link posted on masto, welcome fediverse denizen!

    So in that post I lamented the need to manage cable lengths, particularly long ones.

    So I do get that the manufactures of the devices/components I’m incorporating never anticipated that I would, for instance, disassemble the 60% Redragon keyboard completely, drill out the bottom plate, and add small bolts so I could affix it to the 'deck’s chassis :3

    Besides, not so much a complaint as hanging a light on a waypoint in my journey, if you will. That said, it’s a weird and unexpected constraint I have to incorporate into my design.