[dtx1]

I always love these cool cyberdeck style builds but whenever the bug to build my own catches me, I end up realizing i'm just trying to build a really bad notebook.

[ansible]

Yes, these are cool and fun projects, but not something I'd use on a regular basis.

I've bought a few old Chromebooks off of eBay recently (for around $20 USD each), and re-flashed the BIOS so that I could install Debian on them.

The student-oriented Chromebooks are reasonably sturdy, and at that price point, I just don't care if something bad happens to it.

[sneak]

Yeah. This would be great if it could emulate usb storage, do transparent bridging via switch vlans, support serial consoles, etc, but it is just a case, battery, disk, and bad keyboard.

[fragmede]

raspberry pi's support USB gadget mode, and can thus emulate USB storage with the right connector.

TTL-level serial port pins exist as well.

[pests]

This is how the PiKVM works. It pretends to be a hub with an attached mouse/keyboard (and optionally a flash drive/storage)

Then optionally you can connect your motherboards power/reset pins so you can reboot or turn off remotely.

Video is a third party HDMI capture card that plugs into the Pis camera port.

[andrewaylett]

There's nothing particularly stopping you implementing at least most of that in software if you want. Stick a suitably-programmable switch in and you could do the rest too.

[sneak]

Exactly my point - this project seems of limited usefulness because it could have done a lot more but didn’t add much utility that a pi+screen+keyboard doesn’t already have.