Mini-Deck

A Mini Modular Folding Cyberdeck

Smeef

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Description

This is a little project I've been working on and off for a few months now. The goal was to build a tiny cyberdeck that could fit in my pocket and would have USB expansion ports for peripherals.
I also wanted it to be fully modular with minimal soldering so that parts can be easily upgraded/replaced with minimal effort.

Details

Some notable features include:

- An 18650 LiPo battery that also acts as the pin for the folding hinge mechanism

- An Arduino Pro Micro and USB hub board located under the keyboard that uses a 2-axis analog joystick to emulate a mouse, and two tac buttons for right and left click

- Custom tac buttons mapped to GPIO, to emulate keys that aren't on the keyboard

- An Adafruit BME688 Temperature, Humidity, Pressure and Gas Sensor, located on the left and connected via Qwiic/Stemma QT connector

- Secondary OLED display with BME688 sensor readings

- Three USB ports at the top that can be used for expansion dongles such as audio, Ethernet, SDR, etc.

- An Adafruit Zero Spy Camera module located on the right side (Accessible via HTTP stream)

- An Adafruit DS3231 Precision RTC

- Simultaneous WiFi access point & client mode

Files

Mini-Deck OLED Bracket.scad Mount for secondary OLED display scad - 446.00 bytes - 09/25/2022 at 20:08		Download
Mini-Deck BME688 Mount v2.scad BME688 side mount (requires four nylon M2.5 screws and nuts) scad - 698.00 bytes - 09/25/2022 at 01:55		Download
Mini-Deck Camera Mount Faceplate.scad Raspberry Pi Spy Camera face plate (requires four nylon M2.5 screws and nuts) scad - 579.00 bytes - 09/25/2022 at 01:52		Download
Mini-Deck Camera Mount.scad Raspberry Pi Spy Camera side mount scad - 956.00 bytes - 09/25/2022 at 01:51		Download
Mini-Deck Battery Holster 2.0.scad OpenSCAD file for battery and Raspberry Pi and Zero4U (requires four nylon M2.5 screws and nuts) scad - 2.80 kB - 09/24/2022 at 14:35		Download

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Components

1 × Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W $15
1 × Set of Adafruit Hammer Headers for GPIO pins $2.25
1 × Adafruit Raspberry Pi Zero Case $4.75
1 × Zero4U Raspberry Pi USB Hub $9.95
1 × Pimoroni Display HAT Mini $21.50

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Project Logs

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Display Swap
Smeef • 09/25/2022 at 01:37 • 0 comments

2022-09-24

Completed swapping out of Adafruit Mini PiTFT 1.3" display and custom 7-button GPIO HAT for a larger Pimoroni Display HAT Mini. The Pimoroni Display has also been modified by adding five tac buttons in addition to the four that came with it, for a total of nine buttons mapped to GPIO, to compensate for keys that aren't on the DreamGear MiniKey keyboard.