The Ultimate Raspberry Pi 4 Laptop -- Episode 407

The hottest new model of Raspberry Pi has hit the shelves and in order to make the most of it, DJ has decided to make a laptop. With the power of 3D printing, CNC routing, and Linux, will this be a daily driver to outshine your current portable computer? Of course not, but will it be fun? Absolutely.

Bill of Materials

Product Name	Manufacturer	Quantity	Buy Kit
Raspberry Pi 4 Model B (2GB)	RASPBERRY-PI	1	Buy Now
Raspberry Pi Touch Screen	RASPBERRY-PI	1	Buy Now
Raspberry Pi Camera v2	RASPBERRY-PI	1	Buy Now
Raspberry Pi Keyboard	RASPBERRY-PI	1	Buy Now
Speakerphat	Pimoroni	1	Buy Now
Red PLA	Verbatim	1	Buy Now

Additional Parts:

Product Name	Quantity
Anker (10,000 mAh Power Bank)	1
Rubber Feet	4
Styrene Sheet	1

Attachments:

Pi 4 Laptop_Resources.zip

The Ultimate Raspberry Pi 4 Laptop

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manxtu over 4 years ago

my radio equipment Make it so lightweight and so simple to interface
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phoenixcomm over 4 years ago in reply to aamir_must

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Sound cool my DNS is served from both Google and NetSol (Network Solutions) will it still work for me??
~~Cris
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aamir_must over 4 years ago

My only tryst with a raspberry pi is making a pihole dns adblocker with a raspberry pi zero.
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phoenixcomm over 4 years ago

I guess it's how you look at the world. for me it is a nice TOY. as I must run JAVA8 to support my programming and JAVA 8 code as well as my C compiler and tools plus Eclipse IDE.
So first off you need a 500GHDA, 1Tb is better.
Now Yes I can get all this to run in a PI but that's not my target. LINUX AMD64
~~Cris
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leszek_70 over 4 years ago

the set is better than what I had a few years ago (25 years),
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mayermakes over 4 years ago in reply to jockelb

having a step file is big benefit as you can alter the file to your needs.
however to turn it into ans tl file simply import it into any free CAD software (Freecad works great on ubuntu) and export it as stl.
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jockelb over 4 years ago

Hello
I have a problem to find the "stl" files. In the zip archive is the file "Pi 4 Laptop v19.step".
But I need the stl file for my 3d printer .
Can someone help me
I have Ubuntu system only
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mrvolt over 5 years ago in reply to yuseifudo

Hi there,

You can find the 3D files in the resources folder zipped up at the top of the page.

Best of luck!

DJ
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yuseifudo over 5 years ago

I've considered making my own laptop and was going to use this video as a "how to". However, 3D printing has never been a strong suit of mine so i was hoping you could make the 3D specs available to download? If so that would be great. Thanks!
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Former Member over 5 years ago

I like this alternative to a pi-top in spite of the tiny (7") screen. Would it be possible to have some space for a storage alternate to MicroSD? E.g. an mSATA SSD expansion board or some USB3 drive "cage".

To be an everyday working laptop, storage should be better quality (performance, longevity) than MicroSD.
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