[HN Gopher] Raspberry Pi 400 - CyberDeck Project
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       Raspberry Pi 400 - CyberDeck Project
        
       Author : maydemir
       Score  : 67 points
       Date   : 2021-04-08 08:26 UTC (14 hours ago)
        
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       | warmfusion wrote:
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guGffGw3uDg is another great
       | cyberdeck with portability in mind.
        
       | rootbear wrote:
       | I'm a big fan of Adafruit and the Pi, and I recently bought one
       | of these "CyberDeck" add ons, but I'm annoyed that Adafruit chose
       | to appropriate a generic term, cyberdeck, as the product name.
       | This happens all the time, such as when IBM named their personal
       | computer "The IBM Personal Computer" and what had once been a
       | generic term became a specific product reference. Microsoft did
       | this with "Windows", Intel did it with "Core", and more recently
       | Musk did it with "Starship". Doing this muddies up the use of the
       | generic term and can require extra effort to disambiguate (more
       | so when speaking than in writing). I tend to see these choices as
       | a mix of arrogance and a lack of imagination.
        
         | moonbug wrote:
         | "cyberdeck" is a generic term? Is that you, Case?
        
           | rootbear wrote:
           | Since William Gibson coined the term in Neuromancer, it has
           | become a common, if ill-defined, word for some sort of
           | portable computing device, especially in a cyberpunk context.
        
           | akeck wrote:
           | There's an existing community around the term. E.g.,
           | https://old.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/
        
         | dandelany wrote:
         | Ok, but the product is called "Adafruit CYBERDECK HAT for
         | Raspberry Pi 400". It's not really muddying the waters to call
         | it "cyberdeck" for short when you're writing an article about
         | it...
        
       | justin66 wrote:
       | Literally the first thing I'm tempted to test with that thing is
       | how much force it would take to break it. It looks like it would
       | not take much.
        
         | space_ghost wrote:
         | Yeeaaaahh, that looks very much like an ATA cable connector,
         | and I've broken quite a few of those just trying to remove
         | cables from motherboards. Maybe they custom-cast it out of a
         | harder plastic, but I wouldn't trust it to be truly portable.
        
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       | fmajid wrote:
       | Seems like it would put strain on the GPIO connector and lead to
       | eventual failure. A ribbon cable would be better IMO.
        
         | wiml wrote:
         | They already sell ribbon cables if you want those [1] or of
         | course you can use any 40-pin cable you might still have lying
         | around from the 1990s. Literally the whole purpose of this
         | product is if you want a more rigid angled connection (and a
         | retro-futuristic name).
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         | [1] https://www.adafruit.com/product/4823
        
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