A preposterous pile of what?
We need to know
A preposterous pile of what?
We need to know
...peripherals on your Pi.
https://i.imgur.com/yGVaYx0.jpg
...secrets. But enough talk! Have at you!
What is this alien machinery?
Always wanted an ono-sendai
This is more like a poor kid's bashkit for a junkyard terminal.
There are other builds that are more like the ono-sendai
I'm working on a little project right now but it's not going to be as cool as this :/ this is actually pretty discouraging to me for some reason. It's my first project, I'm putting a raspberry pi in a Toshiba T1100.
Whaaat? No way!
Don't get discouraged, that is gunna be dope af for sure.
I've got a T1000, those are fucking rad little boxes. I'd love to see what you turn up with. Post instructions, tho, otherwise I'm going to be left buying an amber CRT and hooking it up to my vmware serverboxen.
Links for the curious? :)
This one was in my saved posts so that's fastest.
Nice, thanks! Over 10hr battery life too... Might have to look into this domain.
How much would that cost to put together?
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That last bit counts me out. So a couple of hundred for a stack of components collecting dust. Not bad.
Just get a gluegun, a can of coke, some cement and a metal frame.
Honestly the shittier it is, the more cyberpunk imo.
I love the cyberpunk that looks like it's made in the distant future, but from salvaged parts that look like they're from twenty years before that future.
So it's definitely futuristic, but grimey and shows that the world is dystopian.
Cause utopian cyberpunk isn't a thing. That gets its own genres that I forget the name of.
This is why the Millennial Falcon is one of my favorite vehicles in all of scifi. Watching American Graffiti, you can see its heritage - it's a hotrod of that universe, a one-off custom build on a non-exotic ship, that breaks all the time and is held together by duct tape and chicken wire, but it's the fastest ship around. Love it.
Ditto for the bikes in Akira.
The problem is that nobody scales that shit properly. Sure, you could drop $5k on an old-ass muscle car and then put $20k of work and parts into it for some bizarre tacked-together one-off, or you could buy a bottom-of-the-barrel Mustang for $26k. Or a GT86 for less.
For a computer comparison, probably more accurate than cars - sure, you can buy a dirt-cheap RasPi, then a display, and a backlit keyboard, and the other odd bits on there, and put a fuckload of work into making it look nice, and you'll still push vastly less computational power than I was pushing on my old rig some 4 years ago. I bet you can't guess which parts were picked from dumpsters, which were from corporate dumpsters, which were from ebay, and which were from a methhead on craigslist.
Meanwhile, I've upgraded to a single R810 with 20c/40t at 2.7ghz with 128gb RAM. And I've still got two empty sockets in there. And I've got a dozen spare drives lying around for when one shits the bed. It cost me $700 when I bought it, you could probably grab one for $400 now.
It's not just about aesthetics.
That's exactly like my project car. Shitty beater with broken everything, dirty fixes and looks like it is going to commit a murder spree on the streets but also it is the fastest on the block.
I had a comically shitty 1993 Foxbody Mustang with a pretty hot motor. Stupid big cam that took babying for 5 minutes after cold start before it could idle. Literally every body panel was dented. The interior disintegrated, everything non-essential was broken, and shutting the door sounded like dropping a metal crate full of legos. But it could break the rear lose in any gear at any speed with any tire I could afford. The feeling of making old men cry after beating their life-crisis-mobiles, with the shittiest car they've ever seen, is A++.
Haha I know the feeling very well. You also described my car pretty good. At one period it was even shaped a bit like a banana when it hit a tree sideways. Driver door didn't open anymore and a rope was holding another door closed because it didn't stay closed. I can't count the times elderly people and soccer moms have called the cops on this car because how outrageous it looks and sounds. I call it the Night Rider because you can only drive it at night when it is dark.
(It is an european 80's Ford Scorpio with custom fitted Mercedes supercharger)
looks like it's made in the distant future, but from salvaged parts that look like they're from twenty years before that future.
So it's definitely futuristic, but grimey and shows that the world is dystopian.
Well, all it shows is that whoever owns that equipment is from one of the lower economic classes of society.
The wealthy are gonna have like flying cars with solid holograms or something
To be a dystopian future, there has to be a class divide.
Retrofitted future. Is what made bladerunner so wondeful. Good old LA, showing the signs of someone trying to get those buildings up to "spec" but not quite making it.
The cement idea is genius. Just make a wood frame mold, pour cement, and drill some holes for fasteners.
Haha it was not really serious
I was though
If you can put together a set of legos or a model car, you can assemble a DIY computer/ raspberry pi project.
They literally give these things to 12 year olds to teach them about computers in school now.
The worst part of this would be any soldering or gluing involved. After that, you have a sexy Linux terminal for a few hundred bucks.
Conversely, you can skip the Pi and do something similar with an old android tablet. There are files out there to wipe android and install Linux on tablets. Add a blu-tooth keyboard and you are set. I built a small Linux Laptop this way for less than 100 bucks buying a Nexus 7 off Ebay. Less work, same results.
Wouldn't even need soldering. There are compression fit pins for the pi gpio. Hammer pins, or something like that. They just pop into the holes.
Sweet! Here take my money!
If you are serious I'd love to build something for you.
I do have to set something up. Let me think about it. Seems like half the fun would be putting it together.
"collecting dust" only if you let it. If you only buy it for aesthetics, well it's your problem.
I think they meant they'd buy the components but never know how to put it together, not that it would be for aesthetics.
You could diy op's setup in an hour with square tubes and connectors.
Time isn't really the issue to someone who doesn't know what they're doing. If you don't know what resistor or ground means, it's not as simple as clicking things together like legos. Even if you have a basic understanding of tech, you might get lost on compatibility of components and be too afraid to break anything you spent money on, so instead it stays in a box of parts.
This isn't a terribly difficult project, but it's not just blatantly obvious how to build something like this unless you've built things like it before.
What could you even use this for? It sure as hell wouldn't run doom.
think again :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TWhxeatedo
What an incredibly specific thing to be wrong about... Have a sympathy upvote.
Plus the time to get it running.
Based on those numbers, we’re around $200 if you leave out the “ingenuity,” part.
How much are these Chromebooks selling for now? This doesn’t seem too practical, even with hardware savings.
But, it’s still the perfect cyber punk prop. (See green-lit keyboard examples.)
It's not that expensive for a fully functioning Linux terminal, the guy that originally posted it is using it for scientific purposes but you can do all sorts of extra shit with the pi with some technical knowhow
Fair enough. I think you would just wipe a Chromebook if Linux was the goal. Pi hardware experimentation is definitely a reason to do it.
And... steam punk.
Steampunk? Not a cog, punch card, or even brass part in sight. May be "guts on the outside" but it's still pretty solidly cyberpunk.
The only reason to go with a pi over a system on a chip is the gpio. This setup is sweet for protyping and hardware development.
Whats steam punk have to do with this?
If you’re building this as a Chromebook replacement, sure. If you’re an electronics hobbyist, want to learn about embedded systems, or want to develop projects for that platform, it’s a nice project.
Indeed. This is definitely more of a 'hobby project' piece for cool factor than any real money savings.
But the cool factor is pretty high.
Completely agree. Chromebook with Linux isn’t a replacement for the experiments/knowledge which could be gleaned from a Pi rig.
Removable little led hat shows for rows of gpio pins. If this is a test bed workstation for making things the maker can rapidly prototype from it, in true cyberpunk style.
Which Chromebook has GPIO pins?
More pics from the xpost
https://imgur.com/a/qA7uODD
Got a link to the OP? Wondering what screen that is
https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/ads57h/the_latest_rev_of_my_pi_science_station_laptop?sort=top
The ergonomic mouse though
It's the Evoluent VerticalMouse. I had one, great mouse, but the slip pads on the bottom wore down and the customer support was atrocious. They were downright rude and offered me absolutely nothing. Even the support email address was an image file to make it that much less convenient to contact them. Plus, the thing costs like $70.
Now I use an Anker vertical mouse, which is 99% as good and only $15!
edit: This happened like two years ago, and I just checked and the support email is still an image! Who does that?
To play devil's advocate, spam bots can't copy/paste it either
The old lady at my office has one like the one in the picture, I think.
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I was also not impressed with the build quality, but when I bought it, vertical mice were pretty rare and it did do wonders for my repetitive stress injury. Thankfully, there are now cheaper alternatives.
Would worry more about my eyes... need a microscope for a desktop
Obligatory plug for r/CyberDeck
Neat
So I've seen these customized metal frame pieces in other similar builds before, what are those called?
They're called makerbeams https://www.makerbeam.com
Yo those look so useful!! Why am I just now learning about them...
i thought exactly the same thing!
Likely 2020 aluminum rails, made by many different manufacturers, with good availability.
"Phat stack" lmao
At the point where it becomes just as expensive as a cheap chrome book doesn't it defeat the purpose of a raspberry pi computer? Looks cool tho
the gpio. really hard to get hardware input output on a chrome book.
"Looks cool tho" was the purpose.
That’s not at all the purpose of a Raspberry Pi.
The only real "purpose" is to make it easier to hack around on a cheap computer. This 100% qualifies.
Show me your GPIO, SPI, PWM, I2C, Serial on your "cheap computer"
We provide low-cost, high-performance computers that people use to learn, solve problems and have fun.
As in, show me it on your chromebook!
ohhh gotcha. It's way cheaper than a chromebook too!
This is also extremely customizable, which is the real point.
the purpose of a raspberry pi computer
Not sure you're clear on what exactly that might be.
it's about the build not the money. same reason why people modify cars etc
well you see, chromebooks are neutered piles of corporate trash
"... is goals" - what does that mean?
Like a goal to achieve, just a millennial way of saying it
Am milllennial. Can't confirm.
What's the generation after millennial? Am 24, have a 12 year old brother, they have like a separate world of vocabulary
Gen Z. They're fucking hilarious. My brothers just turned 5 and 6, and one time I saw them running around the garden with nerf guns, and every time they got shot, they'd lay down and play dead while the other came over and did fortnite dances over them, before ending it with a dab so powerful they had to bend into their knees, or they'd topple over.
this is why I don't believe people born before 93 should be considered millennials. All the millennial traits and stereotypes come from people born after 93
True, a lot of people mis attribute iGen things to millenials, though me and my girlfriend are both millenials and we use this phrase fairly regularly.
is iGen after gen z? i havent heard of that one yet
i think they might be the same thing, i believe it's anyone born after the release of the iPhone... don't quote me.
makes sense, i remember millennial being changed a bunch before being settled on
A stupid way of saying it.
agreed.
It's a way of calling something cool.
Means the person who says it likes to follow dumb trendy sayings
yikes, oof, lets unpack this
edit: thanks for the gold kind stranger
edit 2: wow who would have thought my most upvoted post would be about trendy sayings uwu
edit 3: RIP inbox, seriously guys stahhp
Language is trendy now? I'm sure you've never used slang appropriate to the time you grew up in, because you're obviously too smart for that. /s
Garbage persons.
that
[th at; unstressed th uh t]
1.
(used to indicate a person, thing, idea, state, event, time, remark, etc., as pointed out or present, mentioned before, supposed to be understood, or by way of emphasis): e.g That is her mother. After that we saw each other.
It means you're too old to use the internet
This is pretty neat!
This look really pumps my nads
What's with the buzzfeed-esque title?
I don't think I could live with such a small keyboard
r/titlegore this isn't FB
Nope. Not titlegore. Normal vernacular. The future is now, old man.
it's slang? at least my girlfriend says it is...
It's fine, reddit is a cesspool of people who think they are superior because they are white and use reddit.
Wouldn't really call this a laptop, looks more like an all-in-one (ala iMac). The support frame/chassis looks fixed.
Damn thats pretty
That looks so badass, would love to be able to make something like this.
Pretty neat!
holy shit that's. nice
where do you place the flux capacitor?
Lovely design, I can see the love put into it
i have no idea what this is but it looks bad ass
Damn I wish building your own laptop was more of a thing
Hhhnnnnnnnng
No mechanical tenkeyless, and a subpar processor? Why bother.
i don't like it 🙄
Ew, Jupyter.
Just looked this Jupyter nonsense up and I'll be honest: seems a bit neat.
If only the keyboard had green backlight it would be the perfect cyberpunk movie prop!
u/pyx posted this: https://i.imgur.com/yGVaYx0.jpg
So appareantly it does have green backlight.
Welp...
That is the perfect cyberpunk movie prop.
“That is the perfect cyberpunk lifestyle”
Fixed that for you
What?
Welp, never mind.
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Needs fresnel lens!
LIFESTYLISTS GET OUT REEEEEEEEEEE
Now we just need a cyberpunk movie.
B’SCUSE ME?
Which keyboard is that?
I, myself, don't really know, but based on other comments it could be this one: https://www.amazon.com/iClever-Backlight-Tri-Folding-Bluetooth-Smartphones/dp/B018K5EJCQ
That keyboard not only lights up but folds in on itself. See those two silver hinges? I have one for my iPad.
Sadly the variant i have, and that i keep forgetting to bring when i go places, lack the backlight.