Nowadays, your gaming PC doesn’t have to be a hulking tower that dominates your desk, as there are plenty of alternatives on the market. You can get small form factor PC cases, go handheld with Valve’s Steam Deck, or mod a mechanical keyboard with a laptop motherboard, dedicated graphics, and Windows 11… just because.
Engineer Carter Hurd is known for their weird and wonderful inventions, from a robot made of fungi to the world’s first concrete gaming PC, but the latest creation is as practical as it is wacky. Not only does the chonky gaming keyboard look like a computer concept come to life, it’s something Hurd uses as their main PC, including to play games.
The project is rooted in the CyberDeck, which is a blanket term for a tiny all-in-one device with a foldable screen and – more often than not – a mechanical keyboard. Unlike its predecessor, you can’t close the lid on this hybrid, as it sports a much more rigid typewriter-like appearance, but it does come with the option to add a portable display on top of the built-in ultrawide gaming monitor.
While Framework’s modular components are now available for purchase and would potentially make the process of building this a little smoother, it’s not your everyday mod.
Hurd uses an Iqunix OG80 Wormhole wireless gaming keyboard with TTC Gold Pink mechanical switches as a base, which they describe as “horrible to disassemble.” They then attach it to a custom 3D printed chassis that elevates it just enough to slot in the motherboard and mobile Nvidia GTX 1650 Ti graphics card salvaged from a second-hand $400 HP gaming laptop. Even after chopping the NVMe SSD in half, it still sticks out, requiring another 3D printed attachment to protect it. The rough look with external
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