Typically, when you picture a Raspberry Pi, you picture a small modular circuit board that can be configured to your needs however you’d like. It can be used as-is (no enclosure) or you can buy into or 3D print an enclosure for it (which comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes). They come with so much flexibility when it comes to how you put one to work.
Typically, the first things you plugin are a keyboard, mouse, and some kind of a screen. The entire setup features a small footprint and everything you plug into it dwarf it in size. So how can you make it better? By building it into one of those accessories–mainly, the keyboard.
The new Raspberry Pi 400 is a small keyboard with a built-in Pi board inside. All of the ports, available across the backside.
You get all of your familiar points of connection, including 4 USB ports (1x 2.0, 2x 3.0, 1x USB-C), two Micro HDMI connections, a gigabit Ethernet port, MicroSD slot, and your GPIO connector. There is also a laptop lock hole to secure in place with if you’d like.
The only thing missing is a second USB 2.0 port, which is reserved internally for the keyboard itself.
It features the same processor (and memory options) as the Raspberry Pi 4 board, only the processor has been sped up to 1.8GHz (quad-core), vs 1.5GHz. They also built-in a way to turn it on and off using the keyboard, built-in a heat spread that spreads heat evenly across the keyboard so no fan is needed, and plan to offer kits that include the branded mouse and other matching parts. It even comes with a pre-programmed MicroSD card so that it works right out of the box.
What’s in the kit?
- Raspberry Pi 400 computer (keyboard)
- Official Raspberry Pi mouse
- Raspberry Pi USB-C DC power source, with adaptors for each country
- SD card ready-fitted in the unit with the latest software release installed
- Micro HDMI to HDMI cable
- Fourth-edition Raspberry Pi Beginner’s Guide
At the moment, it is only available via their site, but it should hopefully start shipping to retailers soon.
