---
title: "Turning your purse into a cyberdeck is the most fun way to resist big tech"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/turning-your-purse-into-a-cyberdeck-is-the-most-fun-way-to-resist-big-tech-dcigkyi3g
source_url: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/02/turning-your-purse-into-a-cyberdeck-is-the-most-fun-way-to-resist-big-tech
type: article
source: "TechCrunch"
published: 2026-06-02T15:29:14.841Z
updated: 2026-06-02T15:29:45.533Z
tags: ["open-source", "raspberry-pi", "self-hosting"]
reading_time: 6
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Turning your purse into a cyberdeck is the most fun way to resist big tech

**[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

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.

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