uConsole: The off-the-shelf cyberdeck

Just pre-ordered one. The build quality of these really shows, and I can appreciate that.

Biggest downturn was the USB-C only being a charging port.

New Sub; Detroit, Michigan, US Well Done, Really Cool Video Sir!

This is amazing honestly. I can take this cyberdeck out with me!!

Awesome video, lots of great information? I can't wait to receive mine, it's been about 4 months since I ordered it

I have longing for a cyberdeck-like device for years. A device with a full-blown OS that fits in a pocket or small fanny pack/(man)purse. i had an openPandora for a while, but its limitations (mostly screen resolution, lack of packages, and keyboard) made it unusable as a daily driver. I recently got a GPD Win Max 2 and it's the device I've been looking for! It has no hardware drawbacks (got the 2023 version with 64GB of RAM) and the battery lasts long enough. Most importantly: you can get one right now!

Another thing, the batteries are in parallel and when they get down to 3.3V the power service shuts down the system regardless of the state of charge or capacity. 3.3V is not nearly empty. You can tweak that but it isn't straight forward. However, below 3.3V the speakers start to make noise when the system is under load even if sound is muted. That said, the battery stuff is the only thing I can complain about. I love the uConsole for basic Pi type things including ham radio.

I still love my old IBM ThinkPad 🤣

This is very cool but I think I would get it and then never use it.

Crap, wish I would have watched this video before I ordered all of my stuff for it. Did not realize about the EMmC storage. Luckily I’m an idiot who previously purchased the CM4 IO board thinking it was a CM4 lol so at least I’ll be able to do that manually off of the uconsol.

I got my own CM4 (8/32) and then flashed it with the Clockwork OS. No need for a SD card. Running straight from the eMMC, faster, better You just need a CM4 board, that is $35, a pin jumper, micro USB cable, and power.

Thanks for the video, I am very interested getting this thing to replace my tablet, may I ask few questions here. I am thinking of getting the emmc module as well, due to the faster speed and the unreliable microSD, I had some bad cards from cell phone use already. But the emmc module needs an adapter to write to, and limited to 32GB, so that I will need to stick with the standard model, and I will get the 8GB one to reduce the need for swapping hopefully to reduce writing to the card. You mentioned there's an option board with extra type C that can fit into the 4G extension board, can I have both working or just the type C ? and have you overclock the thing ? have you used the 4G ? and how does this board compare to the regular Pi 4, I've that board so I know how it performs, thanks ! btw I believe the bad wifi reception of it was due to the stick on antenna close to the metal chassis that grounded the signal, so that put a spacer or thick double size tape to raise the antenna can help without to much of work.

Great video! I’m waiting patiently for my uconsole and keeping my eyes on the price of the kwumsy k3

Nice vide man

I wish I could get a keyboard like that as a part. I want to make something about the size of the main keyboard (without the width of the buttons above the escape/number key row) but sadly I cant find a keyboard that small that isn't wireless. My idea is to make a really small laptop like a pda that would fit in my pocket and still work like a portable pc like the gpd line of products.

I wish they (or someone else) would make a slightly bigger devterm with a mechanical keyboard

The NEC (and U.S. Radio Shack branded version) were great for their time. Extremely popular around the world, especially with the built-in modem just needing either handset cups or adapter cable for a dialup connection. HP came close in the 1990s with the HP 95LX (so close), HP 100LX (much better) and HP 200LX (mostly the same as the 100LX). Not sure yet, but I've considered the Clockwork. Too bad the CM4 is so hard to get, and now it really should be Pi 5 based.

The missing piece is of course a Raspberry 5 Compute Module, when a CM 5 is (if ever?) available I'm in. It would be nice to have GPIO connectivity too but oh well.

reminds me of pocket CHIP

What music is used in this video? Great video.