Little Luggable

Raspberry Pi Portable

Overview

The Little Luggable is my take on a cyberdeck. It's built around the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B and the Pelican 1150 Protector Case and is loosely based on Jay Doscher's Metal Kit. It includes a fully-custom mechanical keyboard designed to perfectly fit the lid of the 1150.

Check out the project page on my website for more.

Making Your Own

Little Luggable is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 and I'd love to see people take the design and make it their own. Pull requests are encouraged–I'm excited to see where we can take this. Please share photos if you do make one.

Right now I have a few spare PCBs and aluminium screen mounting plates as I had to order in bulk so reach out if you'd like one at cost + shipping.

The original design was done in Fusion 360 which makes it a little hard to share, but I'm happy to figure out ways to do so if there's interest.

Parts

Where possible, the Little Luggable uses off-the-shelf parts. I've separated these out and tried to provide links to places you can purchase standard parts. The links are currently pretty UK / US centric and I'd love pull requests for options for other markets.

Screen and Computer

Off-the-shelf

Part	Quantity
Raspberry Pi 4 Model B	1
Raspberry Pi Touch Display	1
PiJuice HAT	1
PiJuice 12000mAh Battery	1
Pelican 1150 Protector Case	1
Pelican 1150 Panel Frame	1
M3 Washer	4
M3 Spacer, 3mm	6
Raspberry Pi Standoff Set, 11mm	1
USB-C Keystone Jack	2
RJ45 Keystone Jack	1
USB-A Keystone Cable	1

Custom

• Fascia, 3mm Acrylic, Laser Cut

  

• Mounting Plate, 1mm Aluminium, Laser Cut

Keyboard

Off-the-shelf

Part	Quantity
nice!nano	1
Rama Works GRID Set A Keycaps, Kuro	46
Rama Works GRID Set B Keycaps, Noct	18
M3 Spacer, 5mm	7
6mm tactile push button	1
Kailh MX Hotswap Sockets	64
3.7V 90mAh Lithium Polymer Battery	1
M3 Knurled Insert Nuts, 0.5mm	5
1N4148 Throughhole Diode	64
12mm Latching Push Button Switch	1
M3 Low-Profile Screws, ?mm	7
M3 Nut	2
90 Degree USB-C Adapter	1
M2.5 Screws	4
Broaching Nuts	4
M2.5 Spacers, 3mm	4
Female Dupont Connector	4
Cherry MX Red Switches	64
90 Degree Headers, 2 wide	2

Custom

• Power Switch Collar, 3mm Acrylic, Laser Cut

• Fascia, 3mm Acrylic, Laser Cut

  • Top
  • Left
  • Bottom

• Mounting Plate, 1.5mm Aluminium, Laser Cut

• PCB

• Mounting Brackets, 3D Printed

Keyboard Layout

Useful References

• Changing screen brightness

• Install Pantheon on Ubuntu

• Generating renders for the documentation:

  1. Render using Fusion 360 with a white, solid color background, and no ground plane
  2. Trim the resulting image using mogrify:

     mogrify -trim -bordercolor white -border 60 render.png

• Keystone cutout details

• Recommended Tapping Drill and Clearance Hole Sizes