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Pi 400 is about $70, or with power supply and mouse and a few other goodies it is $100. It is essentially a 4gb pi 4 built into a keyboard. The power supply i

Pi 400 is about $70, or with power supply and mouse and a few other goodies it is $100. It is essentially a 4gb pi 4 built into a keyboard. The power supply is a basic 15 watt usb-c cube, so you probably have one around already. 400's are fairly easy to buy, unlike 4's. It would be nice if they made an 8gb one. I wonder if DIY upgrade is possible.

fragmede 4y ago
good to know! I'll probably be buying a bunch and tearing then apart to use since the pi 4 is so hard to find.
- musicale 4y ago
  The 400 motherboard is laptop like/long and narrow vs. the credit-card style Pi4.
  - doubled112 4y ago
    Yes. I’d considered tearing a 400 apart because I didn’t need the keyboard at all, but I don’t know what else I’d put it in to save much space.
  - fragmede 4y ago
    Thanks for the heads up. It still has the gpio pins and USB and wifi, I'll just need to find a (bigger) box that fits it. Chips out of a washing machine scenario here
    - throwaway81523 4y ago
      1) The pi 400 is not exactly abundant and it won't be easy to buy large quantities. When I said they were easy to get, I meant you could e.g. put yourself on adafruit's waiting list and get a notification fairly quickly that allows you to snag a unit, or maybe 2 units, but either way it is a low limit. Even if you are obnoxious and go buy up all you can find night and day, it still won't be a lot on the scale of things. 2) the packaging with the keyboard actually is fairly compact. I'm going to use mine like I would normally used a boxed 4b (i.e. as sort of a home server tucked out of sight) but am not going to try taking the board out of the case. It looks like a small keyboard in a normal keyboard enclosure and doesn't take that much space. It isn't really that visible that there is a computer inside.

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Pi 400 is about $70, or with power supply and mouse and a few other goodies it is $100. It is essentially a 4gb pi 4 built into a keyboard. The power supply i

by throwaway81523 4y ago

fragmede 4y ago
good to know! I'll probably be buying a bunch and tearing then apart to use since the pi 4 is so hard to find.
- musicale 4y ago
  The 400 motherboard is laptop like/long and narrow vs. the credit-card style Pi4.
  - doubled112 4y ago
    Yes. I’d considered tearing a 400 apart because I didn’t need the keyboard at all, but I don’t know what else I’d put it in to save much space.
  - fragmede 4y ago
    Thanks for the heads up. It still has the gpio pins and USB and wifi, I'll just need to find a (bigger) box that fits it. Chips out of a washing machine scenario here
    - throwaway81523 4y ago
      1) The pi 400 is not exactly abundant and it won't be easy to buy large quantities. When I said they were easy to get, I meant you could e.g. put yourself on adafruit's waiting list and get a notification fairly quickly that allows you to snag a unit, or maybe 2 units, but either way it is a low limit. Even if you are obnoxious and go buy up all you can find night and day, it still won't be a lot on the scale of things. 2) the packaging with the keyboard actually is fairly compact. I'm going to use mine like I would normally used a boxed 4b (i.e. as sort of a home server tucked out of sight) but am not going to try taking the board out of the case. It looks like a small keyboard in a normal keyboard enclosure and doesn't take that much space. It isn't really that visible that there is a computer inside.