An Alien Cyberdeck – The Raspberry Pi Official Magazine – Issue 165 @rpimagazine

There's another CyberDeck out there and you can build one using a Raspberry Pi 4

It’s time for another dose of retro-futurism, this time in the form of the TypeFrame PS-85 CyberDeck. The folks at Raspberry Pi spotted this one initially. The reason for that is obvious — this custom-built computer uses the company’s own Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W board as its main component. It’s the creation of one Jeff Merrick, who originally set out to build something different from this Alien-inspired slab of hardware. The distraction resulted …

An Alien Cyberdeck – The Raspberry Pi Official Magazine – Issue 165 @rpimagazine

The Raspberry Pi Official Magazine – Issue 165 features Jeff Merrick’s Typeframe PS-85 cyberdeck, inspired by the Alien movie franchise. Jeff had purchased a set of keycaps imprinted with the Semiotic Standard – futuristic symbols created by Ron Cobb for the Alien films. “I didn’t have a clear plan for how I was going to use them, but my wife and I are Alien fans,” he says. “We’ve built some cosplay and props including the Incinerator Unit from …