Pseudonymous HackberryPi creator “Zitao” has delivered on a promise, made earlier this yr, to design one more Raspberry Pi-powered handheld system — this time shrinking the size slightly by transferring from the Raspberry Pi 5 single-board pc to the extra compact Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 computer-on-module.
“The HackberryPi_CM5 venture is a Raspberry Pi Compute Module SBC (single board pc)-powered handheld pc with [the] reuse of authentic keyboard from previous Blackberry telephones,” its creator explains. “The aim of the venture is to create a conveyable Linux-powered pc that lets the person achieve a deeper understanding of Linux and discover the structure of {hardware}, software program, and the Linux kernel.”
The HackberryPi is again, this time in a slimmer, aluminum-cased Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 taste. (📷: ZitaoTech)
The brand new mannequin, dropped at our consideration by Liliputing, comes after the revealing of the Hackberry 5 — or “HackyPi 5” — again in February: a handheld with square-format 3.95″ 720×720 touchscreen show above a selection from two upcycled BlackBerry smartphone keyboards. “I am additionally growing the CM5 model [of the handheld],” Zitao mentioned on the time — and three months on, he has now delivered on that promise.
This time round, the higher and decrease elements of the case are constituted of aluminum with a 3D-printed spacing framework between them. A customized provider board hosts the builder’s selection of Raspberry Pi 5 modules, breaking out a full-size HDMI port, two USB 3.0 ports, a Stemma QT connector for exterior {hardware}, a microSD Card slot, amplified audio, and offering connectivity to the keyboard, show, and an M.2 2240 slot for Non-Risky Reminiscence Categorical (NVMe) storage or a machine studying/synthetic intelligence (ML/AI) accelerator module.
The housing hides a customized provider board that breaks out all of the necessities, together with a PCIe M.2 slot. (📷: ZitaoTech)
Fitted with a 5Ah lithium-polymer battery, Zitao — a grasp’s scholar of mechanical engineering and industrial design on the Technical College of Dresden — estimates that the machine can run for round 5 hours idling on the desktop, dropping to a few–4 hours underneath typical utilization. For individuals who want extra, there is a magnet on the again suitable with iPhone-style MagSafe energy banks — although they must be wired into the machine, and do not cost it wirelessly.
Zitao has listed three variants of the HackberryPi_CM5 on Elecrow, although on the time of writing all had been displaying as out of inventory; design recordsdata for the machine have been launched on GitHub underneath the permissive MIT license.
