A full computer in a keyboard: Raspberry Pi 400

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If you love tinkering with computers, you'll love the Raspberry Pi 400. It works great for basic tasks or as a secondary computer. It may be a bit pokey in some respects, but when you hear the price, you won't complain.

[horizonq]

It’s more than tinkering. It can be a very useful linux computer. I’m glad you like it.
This is a perfect gift for the 10 year old kid that wants to learn programming

[kneelesh]

"I could attach a Bluetooth keyboard to this keyboard"

[lindemann]

That's the Commodore 64 of the 2020's.

[emmfranklin]

its a beautiful piece. The beauty of Mac with Linux inside and to be able to Tinker Thats Raspberry.

[peterwmdavis]

You didn’t mention the GPIO port! Great for learning electronics, even robotics.

[johnalznauer]

3:21 "I hear that's what the kids like" LMAO

[tangocash]

Raspberry Pi is a learning platform in my son's school and they use it from grade four to nine. It is great because they use it for different projects and in five years they have had chance to see that computers are not just for gaming. This year when the kids have online school RP become their playground.

[MiracleWinchester]

The side eyeing makes it look like he's being ng held at gun point 🤣

[MSMMr]

The keyboard is awesome you could hook this up to a tv and laptop and pc everyone should get this one😃😃😃😃

[elck]

Wow $70 is incredible. I am super down with this and will be buying I think

[daanota]

screen tearing can be fixed in the configuration.

[RighteousBruce]

I got the video playback to be pretty smooth with some slight tweaking.

[brucegamble]

This keyboard is tough, rugged, and awesome

[theWARMJET]

The cutest computer in the whole world

[geraldbaria]

Apple M1 magic keyboard pro max please.

[enricosaccheggiani]

The problem is that is too slow to substitute a true computer. I have tried at home and is too slow

[stephenelliott]

I always plug external speakers into my monitor anyway for better sound (using the headphone out jack most monitors have). And use a bluetooth mouse because I don't like wired mice.

[milesmoore]

Reading out of a book can be much easier on the eyes and more comfortable then reading off a screen, for many people.

[--Nath--]

Maybe I missed it, but the other connector on there is for doing all sorts of electronics stuff with: i/o pins and hooking up sensors and the like.

[RamLaska]

2:06 From this moment, you know it's a different beast, because you get a text screen before the graphical color box screen.
Older Pis (Pi 3 and older) booted directly into that color box screen, because the GPU actually booted first, and then booted up the CPU and the OS.
With the Pi 4 and 400, the CPU is now actually in charge from the beginning.
Not something the average person cares about, but it's actually pretty significant for those who would like to see the RasPi migrate towards being a 100% open source / free software device.
It's not there yet, and ARM machines usually have a ton of closed/proprietary drivers and firmwares.
The effort to get there, even if it will never be completed, is worthwhile, however.