Today I cleaned up the buttons for controlling display brightness and did some minor prep for powering the keyboard.

The raspi board is starting to look punk as fuck. I can easily imagine some wired up crustie cobbling this together in some shitty squat 15 minutes into the future.

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For my power button problems I'm now considering having a hard on-off switch between the powerboost and the raspi so I can charge the battery while the raspi is off (this would also be used as 'on') and combine this with a soft shutdown tactile button wired to GPIOs for quick and easy shutdown for when the battery level is getting dangerously low.

On the one hand is feels a bit stupid to have two power buttons but on the other hand it feels like the most straightforward solution nor requiring a lot of precious GPIO pins, or at least for now.

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Yay, I got the PCB connectors today. Even though I was tired I managed to solder the 2x13 pin connector for the display (it works!) and did some slight improvements to the audio breakout.

Now I'm pretty back to where I was when I managed to brick wifi and BT on the other raspi.

Next up is probably to figure out how to control display brightness with two physical buttons. Looks like easy low hanging fruit.

I should really figure out that damn on-off button though. Annoying as fuck.

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Yay, I got the PCB connectors today. Even though I was tired I managed to solder the 2x13 pin connector for the display (it works!) and did some slight improvements to the audio breakout.

Now I'm pretty back to where I was when I managed to brick wifi and BT on the other raspi.

Next up is probably to figure out how to control display brightness with two physical buttons. Looks like easy low hanging fruit.

I should really figure out that damn on-off button though. Annoying as fuck.

#DIY #cyberdeck

I'm almost back up to speed with the other raspi. Desoldered audio, USB, ethernet jacks and GPIO pins. Adderad breakout for audio and USB and verified that it work. Just need to add 2x13p female PCB connector for the display and make sure everything works, I'm waiting for the connectorto arrive. For safety reasons I've decided against using the hacky solution for power in this early testing and dev phase, I'll re-add it when the time is right.

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God news is that I figured out the audio pinout and works just fine. The bad news is that I managed to brick wifi and bluetooth on the raspi. Luckily I have another pi3 laying around but I'm not looking forward to starting over with desoldering everything...

Lesson learned, don't wire power to the pi directly, leave it to the very last step. Probably the same way I bricked the damn keyboard. These things happen, I'm not diencouraged by this only slightly frustrated by my stupid mistakes.

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Yay, USB slots breakout completed and confirmed to be working on my mini #cyberdeck project.

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Found a good enough solution for the USB breakout jacks for my mini #cyberdeck project. Now I'm waiting for the angled 4 pin pcb connectors to arrive. My soldering skills are shit but it works. Progress!

Fuck fuck fuck. I somehow managed to brick the Rii keyboard when trying to work out some issues with powering my mini #cyberdeck

I ordered a new keyboard off someone on ebay. It ships from the US so it's going to take forever to arrive and it was expensive as fuck. I'm not happy about this.

On the positive side, my project is now battery powered and I figured out how to add a USB-C charging port. It looks like I have around 2.5h of battery time when doing mundane things in x (no tests witha browser running yet) I think that's pretty OK.

Today the smoth sailing part of my mini #cyberdeck project abruptly halted. I received the adafruit powerboost 1000 basic today and was excited about spending the evening hacking around with it. It did not work. I've spent some time trying to figure out what is wrong but it's most likely faulty. This sucks. I was so close to finishing the electronics in this project. I ordered a new one and I'm hoping for the best. It's annoying, these tiny boards are not expensive but they sure as fuck not cheap either and I have to order from Germany.

Yay, more #cyberdeck progress! The WaveShare display works in X and the the touchscreen also works just fine.

Everything is going way to smoothly with the project. I expected to be mucking about with this all weekend but so far everything *just works*.

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Come to my lightning talk today to find out how to make your own #CyberDeck 😎 1300 at N:O:R:T:x #CCCamp2023 #CCCamp23

@Natanox So true. I've been irked by the same bullshit lately and I've been seriously thinking about building myself a #cyberdeck with a fully custom keyboard pcb. I wish there was a better choice of powerful #riscv cpus, but maybe a #VisionFive2 would be easy enough to replace eventually... (I'm the I-need-to-invent-a-programming-language-and-rebuild-the-os-from-first-principles-to-fix-this-off-by-one-pixel-bug kind of geek, obviously :-P)

Finally, the future we were promised! 😎 #CYBER #CyberDeck #CCCamp2023 #CCCamp23

Woot! My DIY #CyberDeck is now 100% more CYBER 😎 #CCCamp2023 #CCCamp23

I've been delaying building a #wearable #cyberdeck for the longest time because it's quite time consuming.

But at very least I'm gonna start designing it.

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