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Adafruit Aims To Cyberdeck Your Raspberry Pi 400

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of December 2020 05:42:06 AM Filed under
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With the change of form factor, the keyboard chassis Raspberry Pi 400 introduced an interesting challenge for third party accessory makers. The GPIO, now moved to the rear of the case and rotated 90 degrees means that standard HATs and add on boards no longer fit. Companies and makers are rising to the challenge, with Pimoroni's Flat HAT Hacker being the first commercial board. Announced via Twitter, Adafruit's latest board, a Cyberpunk / Neuromancer inspired Cyberdeck Bonnet which aims to improve on Pimoroni's design.

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Also: Turn Raspberry Pi into a remote Linux development environment. [Ed: How to ruin a Pi using Microsoft's proprietary software and then call it "Linux development environment."]

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