CyberPi: Cyberpunk-inspired dashboard based on Raspberry Pi 4

Mike (aka Dream in Digital) is a big fan of the gritty, high-tech, Cyberpunk vibe. Mike is also a nerd, so rather than, I don’t know, just having a quick play of the video game to immerse himself in the fictional metropolis of Night City, he decided to pour his blood, sweat, and tears (his words, not mine) into building his own Cyberpunk-style dashboard.

Kit list

• Raspberry Pi 4
• Ultra-wide screen
• 5V power supply compatible with Raspberry Pi 4
• Stick-on heat sinks (or a Raspberry Pi Active Cooler)

What does it do?

CyberPi is powered by a Raspberry Pi 4 running Raspberry Pi OS. It has a shiny neon HUD interface that displays the system’s stats. Mike also integrated music streaming and scrolling news functions into the dashboard, along with a YouTube subscriber counter. Despite not feeling confident with Linux-based programming languages, he was able to lean on ChatGPT to help him create the dashboard from scratch. He also managed to turn the device into a Roon endpoint, enabling him to stream music straight from his Roon Core while out and about with CyberPi.

The hardest part of the build for Mike was setting up the ultra-wide screen and fixing the display resolution. After fiddling for the better part of a day and failing to find any instructions online, ChatGPT came to the rescue again to get this part of the project over the line.

System stats

The inspiration for the look and feel of the display came from the “glowing teal” of Cyberpunk control rooms. Mike wanted it to feel like the device is “always breathing”, even if he isn’t using it for anything in particular. This was achieved by dedicating display space to live graphs of the Raspberry Pi’s RAM and GPU usage, as well as the system’s temperature, and overlaying these on a slowly moving grid background.

The upper-right quadrant shows the Dream in Digital YouTube account‘s subscriber total going up; the bottom left displays what music is currently playing, and the bottom right is Mike’s curated RSS news feed.

Versatile tech

CyberPi isn’t the first iteration of all this tech; Mike previously used it to make a music streamer running on Volumio software. You can watch him build it over on his other YouTube channel, Audio Arkitekts.

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