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.

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Ein 3D-gedrucktes Gerät in der Form eines Blackberrys liegt mit eingeschaltetem Display

(Image: Taylor Hay [Link auf https://hackaday.io/project/195587-blackberrypi-handheld])

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  • 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.

Despite a full-size Pis, there is still room in the housing.

(Image: Taylor Hay)

The output is via a square touch display with 720 Ă— 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.

Multitasking squared - the Raspberry Pi becomes a productive handheld.

(Image: 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.

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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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This article was originally published in German. It was translated with technical assistance and editorially reviewed before publication.