Turning your purse into a cyberdeck is the most fun way to resist big tech
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A growing trend of women building hyper-feminine, artistic DIY computers called cyberdecks — housed in seashell purses, Barbie dollhouses, and crocheted corsets — is gaining momentum on social media. Driven by creators like CC (Bimbo Tech) and blockchain developer Maro Vandanyan, the movement blends hardware tinkering with aesthetic expression and serves as a deliberate pushback against Silicon Valley's homogeneous, optimization-obsessed culture. Builders use Raspberry Pis and recycled components to create functional mini-computers that serve as e-readers, local AI terminals, and MP3 players, while also drawing historical parallels to women textile workers who hand-wove the Apollo Guidance Computer's core rope memory. The trend is attracting women with no prior engineering background and fostering peer-to-peer hardware education communities.
