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Alien fan builds a better Raspberry Pi cyberdeck — The MU/TH/UR of all homages to a classic movie series
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That looks rad
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Iirc those buttons are full of nonsense and gags in the film, because until the bluray era no one could pause and read them.
I remember reading something about the time spent in those movies developing meaningful signage, from a science fiction POV. It wasn't meaningless, but I don't think it's as exhaustively thought out as Tolkien's languages etc
Nah, specifically with this keyboard apparently the guy who designed it was reading mystical literature at the time, and put in a bunch of terms from that: from yoni, shakti and padme hum to ein soph and not-so-mystical fly agaric.
Is there a Cyberdeck /c/ommunity? I used to enjoy seeing peoples' impractical creations on Reddit.
I suppose I could have at least PRETENDED to try the search bar! Thank you for providing the links for my lazy butt.