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cmb271 over 13 years ago

Hey Ben, I wanted to know if you can show me the best way to go about building a raspberry Pi Model B laptop, I need something light, simple and possibly good for someone with limited equipment. The idea is you have the raspberry Pi and you install the main things that makes a laptop well a laptop which in my book is a monitor, a mouse pad, a keybored, USB ports, WIFI, and battery system, I made up some blueprints but due to my limited software at the time of this idea it was made using a simple paint clone (Linux User). I found a image of something similar to what I want yet I was something bigger, more like a 13 inch or something, please Ben try it out or atleast tell me what would be a good alternative.

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  • benheck
    benheck over 13 years ago +1
    Here's a pic of a setup I'll build eventually. Raspberyy Pi, 2.4GHz wireless keypad (needs dongle). Asus N-10 Wi-Fi dongle (not shown) 7" LCD with touchscreen and HDMI from eBay.
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    cmb271 over 13 years ago

    Or a vary small desktop like the Macintosh Mini or whatever they call that tiny good for little computer.

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    jlcarender over 13 years ago in reply to cmb271

    My idea is to use a portable dvd player for the screen and sound and the case and a micro usb keyboard. You should be able to use the battery pack along with a power regulator to run the Raspi and usb hub.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    cmb271 over 13 years ago in reply to jlcarender

    I'd rather see the keybored installed inside the case but it could be splised into a hub and the only problem I forsaw was wiring in a battery with volt regulator, and I can't for the life of me figure out how to wire the HDMI to a monitor but I'm not very good with hardware.

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    jlcarender over 13 years ago in reply to cmb271

    The only way to use the hdmi is to use a monitor with hdmi or dvi with an hdmi to dvi adapter. Finding one that small would be expensive. unless you go with the small box type of system like the mac mini then you could use a larger monitor. i think you could mount the keyboard in the dvd case as well. and the voltage regulater would not be hard to make.

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    e14 Contributor over 13 years ago in reply to jlcarender

    It'd be kind of redunant, but I was looking at the old 'Smartbook' Sylvania was selling a few years ago, with a Winbond WM8508 (which is also, Ironic, ARM-11 based), specificly at the LCD screen, which is similar to the screen on the DVD player in another post here..  But, when I learned the smartbook was based on the 11, I was thinking the other direction, porting Wheezy to it?

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    e14 Contributor over 13 years ago in reply to jlcarender

    It'd be kind of redunant, but I was looking at the old 'Smartbook' Sylvania was selling a few years ago, with a Winbond WM8508 (which is also, Ironic, ARM-11 based), specificly at the LCD screen, which is similar to the screen on the DVD player in another post here..  But, when I learned the smartbook was based on the 11, I was thinking the other direction, porting Wheezy to it?

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