This Slick, Compact Cyberdeck Makes the Most of Its Ultra-Ultra-Wide Display with a TUI Desktop

Pseudonymous maker "hiro24" has shown off a 3D-printed ultra-wide cyberdeck that tacks closer to the cyberpunk aesthetic than most — by using a text user interface (TUI) console as its primary desktop.

"This is my first cyberdeck," hiro24 writes of the surprisingly slick design, which includes a hinged display with magnetic catches in its 3D-printed housing. "I've been working on it for around a month. The interface is a customized tmux [terminal multiplexer utility] with a custom login screen. The case was designed in FreeCAD."

That case is designed around a compact 60%-layout NuPhy Air60 V2 mechanical keyboard, which takes up most of the footprint bar a small wall for the 3D-print housing. This, naturally enough, sits in the bottom half of the cyberdeck's clamshell case, while the top features an ultra-wide Waveshare 11.9" capacitive touchscreen display — with a 1480×320 resolution for an unusual 4:1 aspect ratio. A secondary OLED display panel, meanwhile, sits at the bottom-right for status notifications including battery charge percentage.

The top half of the chassis also stores the rest of the hardware, hidden behind the display: a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B single-board computer, with ports accessible to the side via panel-mount extensions, alongside an add-on board that powers the machine via two on-board 18650 lithium batteries. In deference to the limited vertical resolution of the display, the primary desktop is text-based — with tmux providing multiple windows to make full use of the screen's width.

More information on the project is available in hiro24's Reddit post; design files had not been shared at the time of writing.