My ˢᵐᵃˡˡᵉˢᵗ CyberDeck Build

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[JohnJones-oymd]

Divoom: "Dude, all we wanted was a review".

[Providence]

After seeing tons of other people's projects on YouTube come out _so perfectly, _ seeing a project like this be so scuffed is oddly like an aggravating breath of fresh air. Like seeing someone play your favorite video game poorly, this makes me want to do this project myself, lol! Great vid honestly, keep at it.

[cliveramsbotty]

That's a resonance port but with a diaphragm in it to prevent dust ingress. It allows the speaker cone to move freely in the chassis regardless of changes in pressure internally. someone else might know more than me

[DommoDommo]

The fact that you'll just clip anything... Amazing. And the shout out to your family, you a real one!

[SkwigelfChan]

Love how inperfect it is.
Other people vids of same shit is so perfect, it look fake.

[DMSTV]

White part is a ported passive radiator. In this case its basically making the whole enclosure into a bandpass.

[xPLAYnOfficial]

Cool build! Some (hopefully_ useful tips for the future:
1. Typically you want a desoldering gun, a soldering iron, and fresh solder, to remove a large pin header like that. You want to tin one of the pins on the embedded header with fresh solder, then use the desoldering gun to remove all the solder from that pin. Repeat for all 40 pins and then it will come cleanly out. (alternatively you can buy a Raspberry Pi without the pin headers and just solder the one you want on).
2. Highly suggest getting a Dremel for next time, as they offer you a lot more control over the removal and shaping of material on a piece.

Overall, it's a neat little project!

[stonedsavage]

That port with the white part is called a passive radiator and yes it makes the bass feel more seperate from the main speakers but it doesn't have a voice coil

[LdotSdot]

I've been wanting to make something like this as a bit of an art piece to display in my home studio. Essentially I just want to be able to run milkytracker or fasttracker on it in a constant loop and when people ask, "what is this?" I'd just have them hit a mute button on the keyboard that would let them hear the music. Milkytracker runs on raspberry pi's so your kinda already there with it.

[jaws]

this janky, makeshift, but modern version of the janky, makeshift, but futuristic cyberpunk style of making electronics is so cool

[Bleats_Sinodai]

The white piece going to the port on the back is a bass diffuser.
It's basically a speaker cone without a magnet or coil, and it's used to make the cabinet produce bass like a ported cabinet, but keeping it airtight like a sealed cabinet, giving a decent balance between both types. Good deep bass response, but also a decent punchy response for the mids.

[isaacgraphics]

Oh man, removing pin headers is a PAIN.

I was doing the same today and I have some tips for you. Yes, it's easier if you remove the plastic spacers, I sometimes cut through them by melting them with the soldering iron - it's not pretty, but it puts less strain on the traces than just pulling at them. Make your soldering iron hotter than you normally would just for soldering, like 350/400 degrees. Once you have the pins out and you want to clean up the holes, try using solder wick and flux instead of the sucker: Get your solder wick and drag it through flux so it's saturated, then press it to the pin holes with your iron and it will wick up the solder cleanly. If it's not wicking, try more flux. I think you can get pre-fluxed solder wick, so maybe try that. Wick with no flux is really difficult to get to work. Also have heard good things about hollow desoldering needles but haven't tried them yet.

[mgames]

Your duracell screw driver threw me off for a sec 😂

[cyn_]

Cutting off the corners of the display is the most disrespectful thing ive ever seen and i love it

[sufferingincorporatedtm]

that domed display is BEAUTIFUL. i'll definitely do that once i get around to making a cyberdeck :)

[Deathksi]

So for the pins flip it over heat the solder point with the iron till liquid then use the solder sucker to remove most then heat up each pin with solder wic and it should then just fall out

[andrewchapman]

if you hold the raspberry pi securely upside down, you can heat up the pins individually and using a pair of needle nose pliers pull the pins out through the plastic, when the pins get hot they will slide through the plastic with ease so they do not need to be removed

[holzwurm_hd]

You can cut glass under water without it cracking. If you were to do it on displays, you might have to use destilled water.

[bbasmdc]

Total respect for your skills and determination to see this through. Like other comments I found your raw honesty and "warts and all" delivery really refreshing - thank you. Of course I checked out the link to buy the cute little speaker and saw that they have some other cool designs that I will be checking out too. In this case I think I got to the part where you're snipping off the corners of the LCD screen and I said to myself - it would have been so much easier to design the entire case to size in Tinkercad 🤣. But that would have been a totally different type of challenge. Once again, well done sir!

[darkfungang]

Why not 3D print a deeper base/bottom cover to fit the pi more easily?