Raspberry Pi Laptop

in #tech7 years ago

Hey everyone,
Today I'm going to be talking about my Raspberry Pi laptop I am almost finished building (Need to print a frame for the keyboard to sit on and an adjustable monitor frame). I have been meaning to post on this for a while, but I just never got around to it :)

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It cost me around $100. To actually put it together took about an hour, and about 8 hours to print the laptop frame.

If we look around the back:

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The raspberry pi is housed in a compact black case, which I choose to match the black frame. Sooo much easier than building a PC - which requires connecting all those wires and hardware. With this, its just a snap, some hot glue, an HDMI and power cable and your done :)

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I also added a bluetooth speaker to it in case I wanted to play some music on it.

Lets turn it on!

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The screen offers a nice backlight - I really like it but to be honest it can be very easy to scratch. Be careful with your screens guys!

The screen I choose :
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071X8H5FB/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

The PiTop has a decently fast internet - actually faster then my actual laptop (Thanks Dell smh). Raspberry Pi's all have built in wifi and bluetooth capabilities, and with Raspbian OS you get chromium browser.

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I can even use Steemit from here! :D Hi guys!

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Lets check out some of the features in the start menu.

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One of my favorite features about this is that I can program my Arduino devices from my PiTop! This was originally the reason I built this. I may or may not have accidentally deleted my COM Ports on my Dell Laptop...which may or may not make it pretty much impossible to code anything from it. So I got this little guy for $100 - and it works great! Also since its so small I can take it on the go.

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Now check this out - I can program on here in Python and C! (comes with IDLE and Geany). So far it works great! So not only can I write code for my arduino projects, I can also write programs and games to run on my computer! :D

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Also very helpful for note taking, math work, power points and other school stuff - Raspbian comes packed with all my office needs. I can (and have) written school papers on this thing when I couldn't find my laptop. So much win :D

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Also Raspbian comes with some games - a lite version of minecraft caught my eye. I totally dont play it or waste time on it or anything...totally.

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Also helpful are the accessories this comes with. Pretty much the same as any computer or mobile device.

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Also its very easy to adjust your settings and preferences.

This is one of my more useful projects - I have actually ended up using this multiple times in daily life. It was very simple to build, inexpensive, and suits all my needs as a student and wannabe developer. I would 100% recommend building this. As always, if you have any questions or comments please don't hesitate to leave them below.
Cheers!
Max

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Its interesting how we can substitute a Pi for a PC to program Arduino. Well done.

Well, RPi is a PC, but a bit smaller.

Its actually easier than I thought it would be. All I had to do was download Arduino IDE from the repositories and plug my arduino in. No fancy config changes, no github files, nothing. I was actually surprised at how easy it was.

Thats very encouraging to hear

done a good job there, the os seems to be holding well ?

Oh yeah its great! A little tricky to configure at first - you have to copy and paste something into the /boot nano file. But after that its really been smooth sailing. :)

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