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Bumble Berry Pi – A Cheap DIY Raspberry Pi Handheld Cyberdeck

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Bumble Berry Pi

A cheap, easy-to-build Raspberry Pi Handheld Cyberdeck

Why Another Cyberdeck?

I wanted a Clockwork Pi uConsole, but didn’t want to wait 90 business days

I like the tactile feeling of a mini keyboard

I wanted something small enough to fit into a pants pocket, so I can easily take it anywhere, but with a large enough screen to do useful things like writing little programs, running scripts, etc

I wanted to build this quickly & cheaply, with as many off-the-shelf components as possible

I mostly boot to the terminal interface and use tmux to manage mutliple terminal windows, but I occasionally use the GUI

I wanted to use the Raspberry Pi's I already owned (i.e. an old 3b+), rather than having to buy a new compute module

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