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24 alternatives to I built a cyberdeck just for fun

A rugged cyberdeck with network hub and SDR

A hobbyist project where someone built a cyberdeck from scratch as a personal passion project. The cyberdeck is a portable computing device combining single-board computers, displays, and input devices into a custom… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. I built a cyberdeck just for fun launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    A cyberdeck featuring a QAZ keyboard and Banana Pi M2 Zero - g1sbi/qaz-cyberdeck

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The Recovery Kit 2 is another cyberdeck that for me is part computer, part backup device, and part functional movie prop. It's been fun to build, and the HN community has been great with ideas- especially around hosting and getting me off Squarespace. I hope you all enjoy!

    2024 · doscher.com · its alternatives →

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    Snapdeck▲747

    Hey HN, I'm Minkyu Lee, co-founder of Snapdeck — https://www.snapdeck.app I’m a founder from Seoul, South Korea We built Snapdeck because we got tired of spending hours in Keynote or Google Slides tweaking layouts that AI could fix in seconds. Now you can just describe your idea, and Snapdeck generates an entire presentation — designed, formatted, and ready to present. How it works: - You type a short prompt like “Pitch deck for a coffee startup that focuses on sustainability” - Snapdeck builds a clean, minimal slide deck (titles, visuals, charts, and theme included) - You can edit…

    2025 · snapdeck.app · its alternatives →

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    Software and hardware projects for fun from a guy who loves retro computing

    2019 · internalregister.github.io · its alternatives →

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    This is OpenDeck, my own platform for building custom MIDI controllers. I've been working on it for more than 10 years, and now I've made the biggest change so far - rewritten the entire codebase to make use of Zephyr - RTOS with which I've been working professionally for few years now. This now allows me to support many newer boards, complex features and also to modernize the codebase in general. I've been limited on all fronts before. The platform itself allows for simple building and configuring of custom MIDI controllers - main reason for that is because it requires no coding. Load the…

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A new remote desktop and virtual terminal solution

    2021 · fleetdeck.io · its alternatives →

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    Pressdeck▲311

    As a long time indie developer, I always needed a way to promote our products, talk to influencers, journalists, and share our story. Press kits are essentials to make these communications smoother and more pleasant. However, sharing information via public Google Drive folders and Dropbox folders is outdated and does not leave a lasting impression... So, I've built Pressdeck - an online press kit builder your products! I'd love for your to try it out and let me know how to make it better for your niche!

    2025 · pressdeck.io · its alternatives →

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    OpenDeck▲571

    1,200+ startup slides sorted by category

    2020 · openvc.app · its alternatives →

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    Hello, we're Max and Byran from MUREX Robotics, a high school robotics team from Exeter, New Hampshire. We are super proud to have made this open source piece of technology! It is only 6.9 dollars (actually!) from JLCPCB :) I hope you like it. You can find us at [email protected] and [email protected] as well if you have any questions. We will be putting a small run of these boards for sale somewhere (we have <25 units of stock), probably for $10+shipping. Let us know if you're interested in more! Board files for everything we make is here:…

    2024 · docs.murexrobotics.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey Hackers. This is a project I solo-developed that turns completed PCB assemblies into an easy to use boardview with some accompanying boardscans. There are lots of easier and better ways of doing this, but this is an experimentation to do it as cheaply as possible, with the highest quality and lowest chance of errors. The technical details are in the link. Most public boardviews are almost entirely the result of industrial espionage, other than a few encrypted subscription based software platforms that provide extensive access. The process output is released as donationware, as my main…

    2024 · usoldering.com · its alternatives →

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    Get smarter about startups, technology, and society

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    pingdeck▲114

    Build smart mini-websites with sharing-superpowers

    2016 · expireddomains.com · its alternatives →

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    Copper is an operating system for robots - build, run, and replay your entire robot deterministically. - Home · copper-project/copper-rs Wiki

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Get a new electronics project every month

    2016 · creationcrate.com · its alternatives →

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    WebDeck▲98

    Your homepage on the web

    2016 · webdeck.co · its alternatives →

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    VoxDeck▲197

    3D charts, motion cover​ & avatar generation for slides

    2025 · voxdeck.ai · its alternatives →

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    A while back I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator (which is considered the Hello, World! of emulators and is more accurately a virtual machine since historically CHIP-8 was an interpreted language running on top of the COSMAC VIP to make game programming easier). But a few months ago I got really interested in embedded software, so decided it would be neat to port my emulator to a STM32 MCU and design a console around it as a learning experience, since CHIP-8 never existed as a physical system. I didn't know much about embedded software when I began, and even less about electronics, but I managed to…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Create, simulate, and collaborate on digital circuits

    2025 · scratchboard.io · its alternatives →

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    Create Stunning Pitch Decks in Minutes with AI Power.

    2025 · superdeck.xyz · its alternatives →

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    a one wheeled skateboard

    2014 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

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    Deck▲64

    Presentations for the Post-PC era.

    2013 · its alternatives →

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    The most powerful, full-featured handheld gaming PC

    2021 · steamdeck.com · its alternatives →

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    TweetDeck for Hacker News.

    2020 · hndeck.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

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    Hackpad▲114

    The simplest way to organize and share knowledge

    2014 · its alternatives →

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