This Eye-Catching 3D-Printed Cyberdeck Puts a Raspberry Pi-Powered Retro Gaming Rig in Your Fist

Printed for maximum visual impact, this cyberdeck offers on-the-go gaming with a portrait format screen — great for bullet hell shooters.

Gareth Halfacree
3 years agoGaming / 3D Printing

A Reddit user going by the name of "willy_mcBoner" has shared a look at an unusual handheld cyberdeck, boasting a portrait display and a 3D-printed housing with carry handle — and it's designed with portable gaming in mind.

"I made it as an exercise to learn 3D design," the Redditor. "It's basically a video game emulator with some edge. This seemed like a good exercise."

Printed on a Creality Ender-5 Plus, the handheld board features an unusually portrait-orientation 5" HDMI 800x480 display with touch support directly to the right of a carry handle grip.

To the top are two 18650 battery cells, offering portable power, while a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ single-board computer is hidden under a cover with a radiation warning symbol serving double purpose as ventilation.

The system runs RetroPie, the popular Linux-based gaming emulation platform, and while there's no keyboard or other input device beyond the touchscreen the Raspberry Pi's four USB ports — and its Ethernet network port — are exposed to the right-hand side of the gadget, making it easy to connect joysticks or gamepads.

More details on the project are available in its Reddit thread.

Gareth Halfacree
Freelance journalist, technical author, hacker, tinkerer, erstwhile sysadmin. For hire: freelance@halfacree.co.uk.
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