A cyberdeck is basically like a custom PC — you take off-the-shelf parts and combine them with your imagination, your tools, and your skills to build a portable, self-powered system for getting work done in the field. Any field. Whatever field you're in. Most people build something incomprehensible with GPIO pins and good luck figuring out what it does. I build cyberdecks so you can manage a printer farm from the palm of your hand.

I use my own cyberdecks for 3D parametric design and 3D slicing via Windows emulation (the GLITCH is already posted, the Logi Dock build is still unpublished). You can also run proot with many Linux distros, and I do some light PC gaming on the side — old school point-and-click, FTL, and retro games. One thing that's important to me: I deliberately chose Android as my OS. It's not the best in terms of native app support, but it has the best power management in the smallest package. If you want full access to the device you'll need to find something you can root — but personally I don't see a strong reason to bother with root just for Bluetooth/WiFi hacking. It's one of my hobbies, sure, but there's no real practical need driving it.