As a man who wears jeans with a bit of stretch to them, I can easily (but not comfortably) fit a large can of beer in each of the four pockets. A small device is no problem compared to that.

I feel like "fits in my pants pockets" is one of those weird ways to measure size, like football fields. Does anyone actually puts these things in their pockets? I always carried my Nintendo DS in a backpack.

vintage army cargo pants on right now, baggy af and ready for any 'portable' device I throw at them

For a while I daily carried an Asus EeePC 901 in my jacket's pocket. Surprisingly comfy if I carried something on the other pocket on top. But yeah my jacket had exceptional pockets.

I wear size 36 Levi's and this one fits in my back pocket

I printed the casing just to see - it actually does fit in my levi pockets (front and back), but looks and feels a bit ridiculous to actually walk around with

Generally, these sorts of devices struggle to fit in normal trouser pockets, especially women's pockets, but I'm happy that I managed to find women's jeans that actually have reasonable sized pockets, at least big enough to fit my pixel 7a in the front pocket. Still might be a bit small for this though. My hoodie pockets would probably hold it just fine though.

If you can't fit a Nintendo DS in your pocket you need new pants. Personally, I am annoyed I can't fit an NES in my pocket.

My DS XL definitely fits in my pants pockets. They're pretty loose fitting pants but not overly so.

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.

check out my Steam Deck, so portable.

Either cargo pants, or their waist size is much larger than average.

ds (XL, even) fits in my skinny jeans

Cargo pants!

Nice. Did you build your Hackberry or buy it?

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.

Do share. I have similar aspirations

You might be able to do it with a cellular modem hat like this one: https://a.co/d/2zFdzec

You might need to design a new back panel for the enclosure.

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

You probably know someone, or know someone who knows someone, if you don't have a library or makerspace that can print it for you. Shortly after I got my latest printer someone on our local "Free Stuff" exchange Facebook group, a message asked if someone could 3D print the parts for a circular knitting machine. I took up that call and spent 2 weeks printing 100-some parts, and I just asked them to cover the filament, so around $70 (4 roles of PETG). Think about asking on reddit/facebook/nextdoor.

I've not tried it myself, but I know that JLC does a 3d printing service in some funky materials that I definitely can't print at home, and it might be a bit pricey but from what I've seen online, the quality is pretty good. You could get the case printed in TC4 titanium if you really wanted

I don't know if you're based in the US, but here in Europe I used Xometry and, while expensive for what you're getting, it was pretty reasonable.

I built a cyberdeck bigger than this and the case came out to be around 30 euros.

Many libraries offer 3d printing for the cost of filament.

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

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