What is a Raspberry Pi? The Raspberry Pi is an affordable computer, about the size of a credit card, which can be connected to a computer monitor or TV. It can be operated using a standard keyboard and mouse. Each Raspberry Pi comes pre-installed with Raspbian, a flexible operating system based on Linux. This operating …
We’re always excited to find a Raspberry Pi used in a commercial product. The chip and its documentation make it super easy to drop into a retail product.  The Raspberry Pi Pico is a popular choice for teachers and maker enthusiasts alike, it also has quite a bit of potential on the business side of things. Today we’re sharing …
Dual Raspberry Pi RP2040s Power Split Ergonomic Keyboard Continue Reading
During the time in the 1980s when the personal computer was gaining steam as a household fixture, plenty of models shipped with the keyboard built in to the machine itself. This helped reduce costs, lower the physical footprint of the device, and arguably improved aesthetics. But as technology progressed, this type of design fell by …
RETRO-INSPIRED COMPUTER CASE HOSTS MECHANICAL KEYBOARD Continue Reading
Amid the many wonderful form factors being explored by the makers of cyberdecks, there’s one that’s emerged which harks back to an earlier generation of portable computers: the handheld pad with a keyboard. These units are typically around the size of a hardback book, with the upper half being a screen and the lower a …
A RASPBERRY PI HANDHELD COMPUTER YOU MIGHT WANT TO USE Continue Reading
This is the easiest Raspberry Pi Pico to Keyboard tutorial. You can make in easy visualized steps a functioning Macro keyboard, Password keyboard, or anything that you can do with a keyboard. I am also the original author and have made this tutorial in Dutch for the Makersbase. I am Tomodesigns and I do cool stuff on …
As competition to the Raspberry Pi 400 the engineers at Orange have created the aptly inspired Orange Pi 800 mini PC integrated into a keyboard and equipped with a Rockchip RK3399 processor supported by 4GB LPDDR4 memory and equipped with 64GB eMMC flash storage. Connectivity on the keyboard include HDMI 2.0 port, VGA port, 3.5mm mic/headphone jack, Gigabit Ethernet …
The PiPi Mherkin really, really can’t get much smaller. The diminutive keyboard design mounts directly to the Pi Pico responsible for driving it, has a similar footprint, and is only about 9 mm thick. It can’t get much smaller since it’s already about as small as the Pi Pico itself. Running on the Pi Pico is the PRK …
On paper, chording — that’s pressing multiple keys to create either a single character or a whole word — looks like one of the best possible input methods. Maybe not the best for speed, at least for a while, but definitely good for conserving the total number of keys. Of course, fewer keys also makes …
PICO CHORDING KEYBOARD IS SIMULTANEOUSLY VINTAGE AND NEW Continue Reading
Pi enthusiast and maker Penk Chen has created a fantastic Raspberry Pi laptop powered by a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W and all the components are fitted in a custom designed 3D printed enclosure. Equipped with a 7.9-inch touchscreen display and featuring a 48-key mechanical keyboard the style of the build has been inspired by 1990s organizers designed …
Penkesu mini Raspberry Pi laptop inspired by 1990s organizers Continue Reading
In our recent piece marking the 10th anniversary of the Raspberry Pi, we praised their all-in-one Raspberry Pi 400 computer for having so far succeeded in attracting no competing products. It seems that assessment might be premature, because it emerges that Apple have filed a patent application for “A computer in an input device” that …
ARE APPLE TRYING TO PATENT THE HOME COMPUTER 45 YEARS TOO LATE? Continue Reading
