DIY Raspberry Pi laptop with 8″ HD display

If you have ever wanted to build your very own Raspberry Pi laptop you might be interested in a new project posted by Jan Ostman to the Hackster.io website this week. The bill took approximately 20 hours and has been classed as an “intermediate” project.

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The main components of the Raspberry Pi laptop include a new Raspberry Pi 1 Model A+ mini PCcombined with a Pimoroni HDMI 8″ LCD screen kit. The HD screen is capable of providing a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels and comes complete with a HDMI driver board and keypad And is available to purchase priced at around £60 direct from the official Pimoroni online store.

“There are lots of nice builds on the internet but none of them looking very professional. This is how I built mine. The Netbook is based on a RPi3 A+ with a Pimoroni 8-inch HDMI display and a Bluetooth keyboard. I know the RPi3 A+ only have 512K RAM but is has the WiFi, Bluetooth and 1.4GHz quad-core CPU required to run a nice Netbook desktop.”

Features of the Pimoroni HDMI 8″ IPS LCD screen kit include :

– 1024×768 resolution
– IPS, wide-viewing angle display (170°)
– 60Hz refresh rate (12.5ms average response time)
– Contrast ratio: 500:1 (white:black)
– Brightness: 350 cd/m2 (nits)
– Outer dimensions: 174x136x3mm
– Screen area: 165x124mm
– Weight: 125g
– Pimoroni-made display driver board (HDMI>LVDS)
– Keypad and controllable backlight brightness, contrast, and saturation
– HDMI input
– Power supply: 5V, 780mA
– Driver board dimensions: 65×56.5×8.5mm
– Keypad dimensions: 56×13.5×4.25mm
– Keypad ribbon cable length: 20cm

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