Check Out This Itsy-Bitsy Retro Raspberry Pi Desktop - Review Geek

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Dec 11, 2022, 12:34 p.m. EST | 1 min read

Carter Hurd

We’re ever excited by retro-inspired Raspberry Pi projects, particularly erstwhile the effect is simply a functional-yet-useless item. And Carter Hurd’s caller Raspberry Pi Mini PC ticks each the boxes—it has a moving keyboard, display, and I/O, but it’s lone somewhat larger than a tin of soda.

Oddly enough, Hurd kicked disconnected this task by gutting a Ditoo Pixel Art Bluetooth Speaker. It’s a boutique talker that mimics the benignant of a retro PC (and displays customized pixel art), truthful it serves arsenic a bully chassis for a Raspberry Pi. Well, not without immoderate modifications, of course.

In his video, Hurd spends a batch of clip trimming down circuit boards, breaking glass, and attempting to modify a Raspberry Pi. Interestingly, helium slips a BlackBerry keyboard successful the bottommost of the chassis, and adds a tilting hinge to the “monitor.”

The results of this task are beauteous impressive. While the mini desktop isn’t precise practical, it’s fully-functional and looks great. It reminds maine of the retro Mac calendar we saw earlier this year—hey, I wonderment if you could crook this mini desktop into immoderate benignant of calendar?

Check retired Carter Hurd’s YouTube video for much accusation connected the Raspberry Pi mini desktop PC. The parts that helium utilized to implicit this task are listed successful the video description. You tin besides peek at his website to find different neat projects, including a computer made retired of concrete.

Source: Carter Hurd via The Raspberry Pi Foundation