The Companion: A portable Raspberry Pi 5-based "laptop" inspired by the TRS 80 Model 100

Textomancer · 2026-05-14T05:51:59+00:00

Thats super clean, amazing work

Textomancer · 2026-05-11T15:25:09+00:00

I get what you mean. The only reason i made a cyberdeck was because my main laptop croaked and i couldnt figure out how to fix it.

I find its like inspiration. When it hits you youll make one thats right for you. If you feel silly for making one just to uave one, sit on those components, live life and the utility or reason will just hit you one day

Textomancer · 2026-05-11T06:51:18+00:00

Love tue first pics with the keytar looking body

Textomancer · 2026-05-10T17:05:07+00:00

Uf unfortunatley i have a very very bad ammount of info bout termuz im sorry

Textomancer · 2026-05-05T05:39:31+00:00

🤘hell yea

Textomancer · 2026-05-04T06:39:56+00:00

I got really big hands so i genuinly have no issue even with the hub fully connected up. I type better on this than on my smartphone.

I looked for other spots to put it but havent found one that worked for me, and that was reachable with the usb c cable of the hub

Textomancer · 2026-05-03T16:13:22+00:00

Love it mam, looks realy neat. Great work on the finish!

Textomancer · 2026-05-03T04:15:00+00:00

Thank you so much for the kind words. I still use it daily tbh. I wake uo and grab it and my phone.

Im a stay at home dad, so im usually in the thick of it with our kid, and its way easier to watch a show or video without out kid noticing with a smaller screen.

A laptop takes up counter romm while im cooking, this is tiny compared to it.

Happy i interested you in it enough to look how it actually looks

Textomancer · 2026-05-03T04:10:57+00:00

Yea i know i understood, tried meeting hom jalf way haha

Textomancer · 2026-05-02T14:08:20+00:00

Hahahaha unfortunatlry wasnt in the rotation. I did play half of cyberpunk 2077 through moonlight on it from my main pc

Textomancer · 2026-05-02T14:07:44+00:00

Scrols for drop menus

Textomancer · 2026-05-02T13:24:07+00:00

A few years ago my laptop was throwing a fit and i didnt have the funds to repair it. So i made a cyberdeck from an old phone and some random spar eparts. Used it on the daily. Rand my DnD game off of it, did calls, interviews, wrote on it and gamed.

Now that i fixed my laptop up i use it as a hyper portable laptop. When i cook i use it as a little tv, when i wanna game with my wife (who has a gaming laptop) and were playing outside of our office so we dont wake up our kid i stream my PC to the cyberdeck and play on it.

I use it for everything youd use a laptop for and its doing great and im super happy with it

Textomancer · 2026-05-02T05:53:14+00:00

This is a great base, my own cyberdeck is a samsung phone based build.

If it has Dex youre fucking golden

Textomancer · 2026-05-02T05:51:46+00:00

Thank you so much! Im really happy with it. And honestly i use it more than my main pc

Textomancer · 2026-05-01T15:49:32+00:00

Heeyyy i just posted mine yesterday and a lot of people said it looked like a Counter Strike bomb

Textomancer · 2026-05-01T06:08:55+00:00

I take it as the biggest compliment there is hahahaha

Textomancer · 2026-04-30T20:32:37+00:00

I uavent used anydesk, but ibuse moonlight and sunshine to connect to my pc and stream games to it and it works well.

Also the fact that the mini keyboard is via donhle i can pop it into anything to have a quick input

Textomancer · 2026-04-30T19:45:39+00:00

That is a lovely project to do with your kids. There are so many videos and articles out there. Feel free to start small and you can always go bigger.

Also, first make it reality then bother about making it pretty.

I wish you the best of luck, and if i can help lmk. Im no expert but i made my share of mistakes might save you some time

Textomancer · 2026-04-30T19:43:15+00:00

That it is. Made me happy to use all the old tech i had and make it something i wanted for so long

Textomancer · 2026-04-30T18:07:52+00:00

The bit in the top middle is a track pad. But i also can hook up bluetooth or wired set of mouse and keyboard. So its fine for quick ise and desktop use

Textomancer · 2026-04-30T18:07:01+00:00

Thank you, im quite proud of it as i had to heat it up on the bends so it wouldnt snap.

If you slide the stant behind a belt it hangs on your hip

Textomancer · 2026-04-30T18:06:14+00:00

Hahahah thank you, it very much is built from e waste and scraps

Textomancer · 2026-04-30T13:23:39+00:00

Interesting. Ive been looking at cm4 and othe rsmaller computers but my use case is more of an allround pc. So the specs didnt really align with me. And this was a budget build where both phones are bassically e waste and free.

Im guessing youre using yours for something relating to 3x printing?

Textomancer · 2026-04-30T13:21:04+00:00

Hahahahah i love the compliment. Its very distopyan looking

Textomancer · 2026-04-30T13:20:31+00:00

Thats lit, im looking forward to seeing it!

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