CyberPi - raspberry pi 5 powered cyberdeck

A cyberdeck design i made and built as a replacement for my old laptop. Inspired by some articulating desk lamp arms, igorF2's design found here, and an inland mk47 keyboard, my intention when deciding to build this, was for it to replace my ~13 year old shitty laptop. I use it mostly just for taking notes when I run dnd sessions, but the battery only lasts like 2.5 hrs and would die a lot during sessions. This will last ~6-7 hrs of light use, based on the battery packs screen.

I manually split these to be printed on my Voron v0.2, and made some connectors to align the pieces, and ultimately superglued it together.

Printed at a 0.15mm layer height in a mix of inland PETG + black, and translucent green

In terms of a part list this is what i used (hyperlinked to where i purchased):

• raspberry pi 5 (8gb) - $70
• raspberry pi 5 m.2 hat - $12
• raspberry pi usb 3.0 hub - $12 - this does have a usb c 5v power in port, using a random c to a cable i had laying around to connect it to the power supply.
• raspberry pi 5 active cooler - $11 (this is a little less than $10 now)
• anker prime 20,000mAh power bank (200w) - $130
• inland mk47 keyboard - $40 - this just drops into the base, fit is pretty snug, but can be removed relatively easily
• Micro HDMI to HDMi cable (1ft) - $13 - two pack, i did use my printers snippers to carefully trip the rubber part around the braided cable, to get the cable to bend a bit more to fit)
• UGREEN usb c to c cable (3.3 ft) - $9 - two pack, only used one to power the pi
• USB Extension cable (1ft) - $9 - dedicated hole in the rear of the base for one, a second can fit in the cutout on the side. Originally made the side cutout to route the power cables to the battery bank externally, but was able to fit the battery inside. could be used for the second extension cable instead.
• Team Group MP44S 1tb 2230 nvme ssd - $70
• Waveshare 11.6in Capacitive Touch Display (1768x828) - $99

Minimal actual hardware was used, and it either came with the pi or with the m.2 hat. All other cables and things like super glue and some vhb tape I already had lying around. Total im in for the parts for this was ~ $500, which could probably be trimmed down by buying some slightly different components.

A few things to note:

• I did not include speakers, i like to use my bluetooth headphones.
• You can use a bluetooth or other wireless mouse, but the keyboard itself is running QMK. with some modifications to the QMK firmware, i added a toggleable layer for mouse control, so a mouse isnt necessarily required to operate the machine.
• Getting the OS running on the m.2 does require an SD card to boot from first, i have a handful of them lying around, and documentation to get it set up is pretty good.
• For the armlong file, i did have to scale it up in the slicer ~10% to get the right fit, so if you print it you may need to test it a bit. The arm short file is perfect as is.
• The frame file, which holds the screen, will need to be split/printed in at least 2 parts, in order to get the screen in.
• The knob file was borrowed from the lamp design, as was the arm_long file. The original is linked in the top paragraph.