Blackberry clone with Raspberry Pi
A fully-fledged Raspberry Pi – equipped with a 4-inch HD-Ready display and a physical keyboard – is available in a Blackberry design for on the go.
(Bild: Taylor Hay [Link auf https://hackaday.io/project/195587-blackberrypi-handheld])
- Daniel Schwabe
Maker Taylor Hay has built a handheld Raspberry Pi with a handy 3D-printed case.
This housing holds a complete Raspberry Pi 4. It is powered by a battery pack that is charged via a controller board from a power bank. This board then also connects the battery to the Raspberry Pi.
(Bild: Taylor Hay)
The output is via a square touch display with 720 × 720 pixels. The display is 4 inches (10.16 cm) in size and offers a refresh rate of 60 Hz and 18-bit color space. The display is connected via an extra board, which is docked via the 40-pin GPIO connector of the Raspberry Pi.
(Bild: Taylor Hay)
The keyboard was an important feature of the model for this project, the Blackberry. The USB/Bluetooth keyboard used here is visually modeled on the cell phone keyboard and offers a QWERTY keyboard layout as well as a trackpad mouse.
For use in this project, the keyboard was built directly into the housing and soldered to the USB pins of the Pi. There is also a separate project page for this keyboard.
Further information can be found on the Blackberry Pi project page.
If you would like to learn how to design a cool Raspberry Pi case yourself, we have instructions on how to do this with FreeCAD.
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