[HN Gopher] Bumble Berry Pi - A Cheap DIY Raspberry Pi Handheld ...
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Bumble Berry Pi - A Cheap DIY Raspberry Pi Handheld Cyberdeck
Author : MakerSam
Score : 82 points
Date : 2025-11-09 16:34 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| poisonborz wrote:
| > I wanted something small enough to fit into a pants pocket
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| I always wanted to know what kind of pants people wear who say
| that to this device size (see also Nintendo DS & co)
| MakerSam wrote:
| I wear size 36 Levi's and this one fits in my back pocket
| QuantumNomad_ wrote:
| That's a risky place to put it, if you forget it's there and
| sit down heh
| TechSquidTV wrote:
| check out my Steam Deck, so portable.
| mouse_ wrote:
| ds (XL, even) fits in my skinny jeans
| floundy wrote:
| Either cargo pants, or their waist size is much larger than
| average.
| wkjagt wrote:
| My DS XL definitely fits in my pants pockets. They're pretty
| loose fitting pants but not overly so.
| rtaylorgarlock wrote:
| vintage army cargo pants on right now, baggy af and ready for
| any 'portable' device I throw at them
| phantasmish wrote:
| IDK about pants pockets, but blazer- and sport-coat-wearing
| needs to make a comeback. Those hip pockets that can
| comfortably hold all the old pulp "pocket size" paperbacks from
| back in the day are so damn nice. Great for enormous modern
| smartphones, too.
| WillAdams wrote:
| I miss the old Travelsmith shirts which had pockets
| sufficiently large to comfortably hold a Sony PRS-505/600
| ebook reader. Since then, I did get a pair of shirts which
| have similarly large pockets which will accept my Kindle
| Paperwhite and/or Samsung Galaxy Note 10+, but really wish
| I'd bought more of them, and am kind of stumped for replacing
| them when they wear out.
| 49e9919970c66f3 wrote:
| thats really cool! i will consider making it myself
| wg0 wrote:
| Anyone has a RS36 Max?
| anonymousiam wrote:
| It looks similar to this project:
| https://github.com/ZitaoTech/HackberryPiCM5
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| I picked one up a few months ago and I like it.
| MakerSam wrote:
| Nice. Did you build your Hackberry or buy it?
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| The Hackberry looks awesome. I was going to build/buy one, but
| I wanted a slightly bigger screen and keyboard, and I also
| wanted to save some money by using an old 3b+ I had laying
| around. And I wanted to be able to build it quickly from off-
| the-shelf Amazon components. So all-in I think I spent ~$70 on
| this one, whereas the hackberry pi would have cost about double
| that, and then I would have had to buy the CM5 module.
|
| Curious to hear of your experience with the hackberry - I still
| might consider getting one of those myself.
| stOneskull wrote:
| i'd like to try making this but i don't have a 3d printer nor
| know someone who does. i have a feeling that if i find a service
| that does it, that it would cost as much for the 3d printing as
| for the raspberry pi itself
| squigz wrote:
| A quick look at a 3D printing service shows $20 for the upper
| part of the case. Not too bad. But also consider looking for a
| 3D printer at a local library or makerspace
| DroneBetter wrote:
| is Raspberry Pi OS entirely usable without a trackpad/mouse or
| does this need an external one to be connected?
| MakerSam wrote:
| The Bumble Berry has a touchscreen, so if you need to use the
| Raspberry PI OS GUI, you can simple use your finger as a mouse
| pointer. I've found it works pretty well for the rare occasions
| that I need to start the GUI.
|
| However, I mostly use this unit in terminal, which means I boot
| to terminal and only occasionally start up the GUI with startx
| when I need it.
|
| I use terminal because: I'm trying to brush up on my terminal
| skills and most of my use-cases are covered in terminal with
| applications. Some of my favorite terminal applications are:
|
| tmux - for managing multiple terminal windows nano - for
| writing code (occasionally I use vim) tty-clock - nice clock
| screen saver lynx - text based web browser. works surprisingly
| well on some sites like wikipedia epy - ebook reader - great
| for reading classic free ebooks from Project Gutenberg doom -
| because doom cmatrix - matrix-style screensaver - looks really
| cool
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| My main use case is for learning new code languages - it's nice
| to have a handheld device on me to practice writing code when I
| have a few minutes on me but don't have a laptop
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