Pi MIDI Cyberdeck
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Thought for 14 sec
That reference board looks like a portable cyberdeck / field-terminal aesthetic: rugged case, small display, compact keyboard, lots of tactile controls, and visible maker-style hardware.
For this new project, I can help turn that into an electronics design. A good starting architecture would be:
- Controller: Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W or ESP32-S3 depending on whether you want Linux or microcontroller behavior
- Display: 4–7" HDMI/SPI touchscreen or small TFT
- Input: compact keyboard matrix, rotary encoders, pushbuttons, optional trackball/joystick
- Power: USB-C input, LiPo charger/power-path, 5 V / 3.3 V rails
- Expansion: STEMMA/Qwiic I2C, GPIO header, UART/debug port
- PCB style: front-panel PCB with switches/encoders/LEDs, plus a carrier PCB for compute/power/display connectors
If you want, I can start by creating a project specification for a rugged handheld cyberdeck inspired by this image.
i want to design a cyberdeck like this that acts as a midi device
Thought for 13 sec
Got it — I’ll frame this as a rugged cyberdeck-style USB MIDI controller: display, tactile keys/encoders, USB-C MIDI, and optional battery/standalone features. I’ll set up the project direction first, then we can turn it into a schematic once you confirm the architecture.
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i already have a raspberry pi 4 so we can work with that as a base