Bumble Berry Pi – A Cheap DIY Raspberry Pi Handheld Cyberdeck

[poisonborz]

> I wanted something small enough to fit into a pants pocket

I always wanted to know what kind of pants people wear who say that to this device size (see also Nintendo DS & co)

[Etheryte]

As a man who wears jeans with a bit of stretch to them, I can easily (but not comfortably) fit a large can of beer in each of the four pockets. A small device is no problem compared to that.

[hiccuphippo]

I feel like "fits in my pants pockets" is one of those weird ways to measure size, like football fields. Does anyone actually puts these things in their pockets? I always carried my Nintendo DS in a backpack.

[rtaylorgarlock]

vintage army cargo pants on right now, baggy af and ready for any 'portable' device I throw at them

[fer]

For a while I daily carried an Asus EeePC 901 in my jacket's pocket. Surprisingly comfy if I carried something on the other pocket on top. But yeah my jacket had exceptional pockets.

[MakerSam]

I wear size 36 Levi's and this one fits in my back pocket

[sprobertson]

I printed the casing just to see - it actually does fit in my levi pockets (front and back), but looks and feels a bit ridiculous to actually walk around with

[voidUpdate]

Generally, these sorts of devices struggle to fit in normal trouser pockets, especially women's pockets, but I'm happy that I managed to find women's jeans that actually have reasonable sized pockets, at least big enough to fit my pixel 7a in the front pocket. Still might be a bit small for this though. My hoodie pockets would probably hold it just fine though.

[dec0dedab0de]

If you can't fit a Nintendo DS in your pocket you need new pants. Personally, I am annoyed I can't fit an NES in my pocket.

[wkjagt]

My DS XL definitely fits in my pants pockets. They're pretty loose fitting pants but not overly so.

[phantasmish]

IDK about pants pockets, but blazer- and sport-coat-wearing needs to make a comeback. Those hip pockets that can comfortably hold all the old pulp "pocket size" paperbacks from back in the day are so damn nice. Great for enormous modern smartphones, too.

[TechSquidTV]

check out my Steam Deck, so portable.

[floundy]

Either cargo pants, or their waist size is much larger than average.

[mouse_]

ds (XL, even) fits in my skinny jeans

[arkensaw]

Cargo pants!

[anonymousiam]

It looks similar to this project: https://github.com/ZitaoTech/HackberryPiCM5

I picked one up a few months ago and I like it.

[MakerSam]

Nice. Did you build your Hackberry or buy it?

The Hackberry looks awesome. I was going to build/buy one, but I wanted a slightly bigger screen and keyboard, and I also wanted to save some money by using an old 3b+ I had laying around. And I wanted to be able to build it quickly from off-the-shelf Amazon components. So all-in I think I spent ~$70 on this one, whereas the hackberry pi would have cost about double that, and then I would have had to buy the CM5 module.

Curious to hear of your experience with the hackberry - I still might consider getting one of those myself.

[999900000999]

Very very cool.

Once upon a time I wrote a small script to turn a raspberry pi into a midi device. I really want to be able to make my own custom midi controller, but it's not exactly fun.

[schwartzworld]

Do share. I have similar aspirations

[pkphilip]

What is the possibility of attaching a GSM module to this to make voice calls and send SMS? I mean, can we make this into a basic phone?

[MakerSam]

You might be able to do it with a cellular modem hat like this one: https://a.co/d/2zFdzec

You might need to design a new back panel for the enclosure.

[stOneskull]

i'd like to try making this but i don't have a 3d printer nor know someone who does. i have a feeling that if i find a service that does it, that it would cost as much for the 3d printing as for the raspberry pi itself

[squigz]

A quick look at a 3D printing service shows $20 for the upper part of the case. Not too bad. But also consider looking for a 3D printer at a local library or makerspace

[linsomniac]

You probably know someone, or know someone who knows someone, if you don't have a library or makerspace that can print it for you. Shortly after I got my latest printer someone on our local "Free Stuff" exchange Facebook group, a message asked if someone could 3D print the parts for a circular knitting machine. I took up that call and spent 2 weeks printing 100-some parts, and I just asked them to cover the filament, so around $70 (4 roles of PETG). Think about asking on reddit/facebook/nextdoor.

[voidUpdate]

I've not tried it myself, but I know that JLC does a 3d printing service in some funky materials that I definitely can't print at home, and it might be a bit pricey but from what I've seen online, the quality is pretty good. You could get the case printed in TC4 titanium if you really wanted

[Gisbitus]

I don't know if you're based in the US, but here in Europe I used Xometry and, while expensive for what you're getting, it was pretty reasonable.

I built a cyberdeck bigger than this and the case came out to be around 30 euros.

[schwartzworld]

Many libraries offer 3d printing for the cost of filament.

[DroneBetter]

is Raspberry Pi OS entirely usable without a trackpad/mouse or does this need an external one to be connected?

[MakerSam]

The Bumble Berry has a touchscreen, so if you need to use the Raspberry PI OS GUI, you can simple use your finger as a mouse pointer. I've found it works pretty well for the rare occasions that I need to start the GUI.

However, I mostly use this unit in terminal, which means I boot to terminal and only occasionally start up the GUI with startx when I need it.

I use terminal because: I'm trying to brush up on my terminal skills and most of my use-cases are covered in terminal with applications. Some of my favorite terminal applications are:

tmux - for managing multiple terminal windows nano - for writing code (occasionally I use vim) tty-clock - nice clock screen saver lynx - text based web browser. works surprisingly well on some sites like wikipedia epy - ebook reader - great for reading classic free ebooks from Project Gutenberg doom - because doom cmatrix - matrix-style screensaver - looks really cool

My main use case is for learning new code languages - it's nice to have a handheld device on me to practice writing code when I have a few minutes on me but don't have a laptop

[wg0]

Anyone has a RS36 Max?

[49e9919970c66f3]

thats really cool! i will consider making it myself