April 16, 2026
Description
Arduino AI Cyberdeck Station – UNO Q + GIGA Display Shield + Transparent OLED
This project is a tiny offline AI cyberdeck built entirely with Arduino hardware. The main idea was to build the kind of cyberdeck people usually make with a Raspberry Pi, but using the new Arduino UNO Q instead.
The system is split into two parts. The Arduino UNO Q (2GB RAM) runs Linux, handles the keyboard input, and runs a small local LLM with llama.cpp. The Arduino GIGA R1 WiFi with the Arduino GIGA Display Shield acts as the visual frontend and renders the terminal-style user interface. On top of that, a Waveshare 1.51-inch Transparent OLED is used as a small status display for the active model.
A tiny Rii Bluetooth keyboard is paired directly to the UNO Q. That means the UNO Q becomes the actual terminal host: it receives the prompt, runs the model locally, cleans up the output, and prepares the terminal screen for the frontend. The GIGA then polls the UNO Q over WiFi and redraws the screen on the display.
The local model running on the UNO Q is Qwen 2.5 0.5B, more specifically a heavily quantized GGUF version so it can fit on the 2GB board. The runtime is based on llama.cpp with lightweight settings that the UNO Q can actually handle. This is not meant to be a huge desktop AI setup. It is a compact embedded AI terminal that really runs locally.
I also added the transparent OLED because it just looks amazing and makes the whole build feel much more futuristic.
This is version 1.0 of the case and overall build, so it is not perfect yet, but it already works really well as a compact Arduino AI cyberdeck.
License:
BY-NC
SparkLab
