Tommi Laukkane's Cyberdore 2064 Blends Retro-Futurism with a Raspberry Pi Zero

Cloud architect Tommi Laukkanen has designed a Raspberry Pi-powered cyberdeck with a difference: the retro-futuristic Cyberdore 2064 includes a rotary input knob, alongside a compact screen, keyboard, and carry-handle.

"I'm a fan of cyberpunk genre," Laukkanen explains, "so one of the interests is to craft my own cyberdecks every now and then to help me jack into the net with a proper device. You don't end up endless social media scrolling with these device — although it does have a handy scroll wheel on the side to navigate your Mastodon feed."

The Cyberdore 2064, brought to our attention by Adafruit, takes some design cues from the Commodore 64 microcomputer. There's the familiar power LED section, with grille-lines and a name badge — while the Commodore "chicken-head" logo is found on the device's rear. The front of the 3D-printed housing includes a compact Bluetooth keyboard beneath a compact color display — while a second screen, a small SSD1306-based OLED panel, plays a cassette-tape animation for aesthetic effect.

Inside the custom-designed 3D-printed housing is a Raspberry Pi Zero single-board computer and a Raspberry Pi Pico RP2040-based microcontroller board. The latter serves a dual purpose: the first is to run the cassette animation on the OLED display; the second is to interface with a rotary encoder, which is exposed on the side of the deck as an oversized knob.

"I designed the case with Autodesk Fusion," Laukkanen explains. "I wanted to have a deck with a handle so that you can carry it around easily. I also added a place for the small display where to display a cassette animation to give a proper retro futuristic feel to the device."

Laukkanen's full write-up is available on his website; 3D print files have been published to Printables under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.