Here comes the "Pi-Top" of homemade laptops using ASCII.jp Raspberry Pi.

The price of Lazi Pie 2 on our Pi-Top website is $299 (about 36, 900 yen), while that of Pi-Top is $269 (about 33, 100 yen). The freight to Japan costs 35 US dollars (about 4300 yen).

"Laspie" or "Raspberry Pi" is a small board the size of a business card, with USB and HDMI output, cheap products that can be bought for about 5000 yen, Linux will also run, this is well-known hardware. From programming learning and small electronic work, to real home IT, is a wide range of applications of hardware. However, to try gum pie, in addition to preparing LCD and keyboard, you also need to prepare USB power (a smartphone charger with an output of about 2A is enough), body shell (nudity can also be used, but just in case) or something delicate.

This is the Laz Pais scene, do you know the plan to use quad-core SoC, based on the high-performance "Raspberry Pi2" (Raz pie 2), to make original notebook computers, "Pi-Top"? The project was originally released in October 2014 on the cloud computing website Indiegogo. Due to the expected shipment in May 2015, the target will be reached soon, and the attention in the Indy hardware industry has greatly increased, but the project is second only to delay (there is also Fanny's reason that "because China is a long holiday, it will be late"). The author of the relatively early investment once completely forgot the existence of the project, but at the beginning of November finally had a real opportunity! Let's check what it looks like right away.

What can I get when I buy Pi-Top first? Let me summarize the basic specifications.

13.3in LCD (1366 x 768p) notebook computer shell (with keyboard and touchpad) special battery (nominal 10mm 12hr action) AC adapter wireless LAN encryption dog pi-top OS SD card

The special plastic shell made by injection molding is equipped with liquid crystal, battery, minimum input device, and special AC adapter, which can be used as a stand-alone notebook computer. You might think, "it's not a simple structure, it's just a set of necessary parts." Pi-Top has a special hub substrate, which can confirm the residual amount of power switches and battery units that do not exist in Tree frame 2. By the way, the color of the box can be chosen from gray or green in the user's vote.

Pi-Top 's box. It's a rather heavy box. It was in my hand and suddenly there was the sound of parts rolling from inside, but I decided I didn't mind.

Open the box and expose the roof first. Enter in a separate state in units of each part. The shipment came from China through FedEx, but the internal parts were not damaged and were in good condition.

The bottom section contains a dedicated battery unit with 58.1Wh capacity. Surprisingly, it is not easily built-in USB portable battery, it is a real unit. With SMBus interface, you can control the battery charge and so on.

Injection molding burrs can also be seen everywhere. If you look forward to the current Gabra accuracy, you may be a little disappointed.

The roof and LCD are integrated, so there is no need for delicate work. The LCD is not pulled into the HDMI of the tree pie 2, but the eDP connection. This also has the significance of reducing costs.

The middle part of the keyboard combined with the touchpad. The top of the frame is printed with a power icon, which is used as a power button (with LED).

Keyboards and touchpads are not ants, but are designed for Pi-Top. Because there is a USB connection to Tree Shelf 2, other PC should work as long as the cable is pulled out.

It also comes with a pre-installed wireless LAN decryptor (top) and a pi-top OS mini SD card (8 GB). However, the WLAN decryptor not only failed the technology, but also wasted a lot, so the Buffalo-made "WLI-UC-GNM" was used in the verification.

The central substrate is the core part of Pi-Top. In addition to the HDMI powered eDP conversion, it is also responsible for supplying power to the tree rack 2 host and battery unit from the AC adapter, as well as the connection of the power button and the power LED.

A set of content. It also includes a cover connected to the top of the Pi-Top keyboard and an AC adapter (18V output).

Raz 2 can also be purchased from the Pi-Top website, but this time we have prepared what we have. Because you want to enter a small space, you should also prepare the radiator installed on the chip.

The structure of Pi-Top is very simple, but considering that it is like today's laptop, I will cry. Look at the contact of the parts and the terminal, and find out the feeling of the best point little by little. Because there is an illustrated explanatory book, it can be done even if you can't read English, especially if it is difficult to distinguish between the two kinds of screws. If the cable connecting the hub substrate and tree rack 2 is not concentrated on the upper side, the keyboard will float and so on, and some elements will have to be tried to know.

After merging the liquid crystal and the bottom part, install it into the hub substrate. The hub substrate and the battery are connected with small pins, but in order not to bend the pin, and to find where the substrate is tightly embedded, a little trial and error is needed. By the way, the cluttered parts in the box are Imo screws used to connect the liquid crystal hinge to the bottom part.

This tune also fixed the tree pie 2, but the fixing of the substrate is in the shape of a track like a photo and can be properly positioned.

Connect trestle 2 to the hub substrate by cable. The head pins used in electronic work with a tree frame are all connected to the hub substrate with a special cable. It seems that the functions of battery monitoring and LCD brightness adjustment are realized through this terminal.

Finally, the intermediate parts are embedded and inserted into the propylene panel. If you want to replace the SD card installed in the tree2 operating system, remove the panel and access it from this window.

The chip of Lazi Pai 2 generated a lot of heat, so I affixed a small radiator. Directly switched to something attached to the box used by Laspie 2. When using a wired LAN, pulling it directly from the hole on the right side of the main body is a heroic design.

Although the best wearing feeling of the intermediate parts is a little difficult, it is completed in less than an hour. By the way, the body (including gum pie 2) weighs about 1.5 kg.