this is a really exciting little computer it's actually been
rolling by my youtube feed just constantly
over the past couple of weeks it's actually been a while since we've been
able to take a look at it for reasons but uh this is the raspberry
pi 400 it is a fully self-contained computer and keyboard
all in one and this is the the full personal computer kit comes with the
mouse as well as a bunch of other goodies here
around back it'll say yeah meat raspberry pi 400
your complete personal computer built into a compact keyboard remember when
computers were built into keyboards back in like the commodore days amiga
days featuring a quad-core 64-bit processor
wireless networking dual display output and 4k
video playback this is the most powerful and easy to use raspberry pi computer
yet surf the web edit documents watch videos
and learn to program using raspberry pi os desktop environment yeah
like what else do you need a computer for this is awesome
i remember this is like the thing that everyone's like oh well the raspberry pi
like it's one of these days it'll be a full computer and
you'll be able to just get a full computer for like 100 bucks and that's exactly what this is
so this kit contains everything you need to get started with an asterisk
raspberry pi 400 computer usb mouse
power supply sd card HDMI cable and
beginner's guide and it does not include a tv or monitor which is required to get started
unfortunately they can't put that in for a hundred dollars let's
see yeah the whole kit's a hundred dollars i just looked what yeah it's like 70
for the computer on its own and for the whole kid it's 100 bucks
yeah that's why it's so cool it's running an ARM processor let's let's
just be real about that but it can run Windows
for ARM and Windows for ARM is getting support
for emulating 64-bit Windows programs so we'll see how
that works out in the future so let's get into it literally
uh there's no cute little message or anything on the inside i mean
i don't know what was what i was expecting it's 100 bucks 101
actually this isn't too bad keyboard front and center which i mean
it's the computer oh that's that's really
really nice it actually just like it doesn't feel very heavy it's kind of
just like oh it's a wireless keyboard let's just dig in a little bit deeper
here first before playing around with that too much
okay this is the usb type-c power supply
one volt at 5.1 volts 3 amps
so yeah if you had a quick charge charger you could just
forego this but it's nice to have
a raspberry themed sd card
that is the storage and this is the
raspberry pi mouse oh oh i broke the box jono you really
need to get me knives for when i can sit down here
yeah i know is this going back to them
no you mean it's coming back home with me
what um
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oh look at that isn't that cute it's a little mouse it's
basically as basic as it gets
uh nothing special but it's got a nice little short cable
once i get this twist tie off oh you know what this is probably what the usb
2.0 port is for just dedicated for the mouse
like that so you don't have to use up your high speed storage your high speed uh
connectivity and just get a wireless dongle
this mouse isn't great anyway but it's included in the box 400 bucks
speaking of things included in the box there is
that is uh that is a thick boy starter
guide like it is
uh it says the official raspberry pi beginner's guide how to use your
computer fully updated for raspberry pi 400 fourth edition by gareth halfaker this book is written
to show you just how easy it is to get started
learn how to that's not easy
oh no it's actually pretty well uh illustrated
there's like a whole lot of illustrations on here and screenshots
and stuff uh do you have a uh oh there's uh i
don't think there's screws i don't know if i want to split
this apart like that does it yeah this is a pi 4 i don't know what
the cooling solution looks like inside here i'll have to take it apart later
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ShortCircuit all right let's get into it uh virtually
at first uh so there's
actually already a micro sd card in here i guess i should probably look at the
ports dual micro HDMI usb type-c for charging
uh i think you can also use a hub off of that uh
two usb 3 usb 2.0 and gigabit network oh
and of course the gpio we'll get into those a little bit later oh this is just an adapter it said it
came with the cable yeah it says HDMI cable right here
ah i did miss it stuffed right in here
man i don't like my micro HDMI
let's get our mouse plugged in yeah
clearly that mouseport was designed for left-handed people
so it should actually and thankfully did have
raspberry pi os set up and ready to go
as it is so let's get started
uh we probably should shouldn't we that'll do it
um why does it say obs virtual camera
device is in use by other software it's
a lost cause um i'm probably gonna have to restart
this again if there's one thing that i will say about this is that
if you're going to the effort of making an enclosure like this
why can't we have a power switch like i don't see one on here
no so this is the default desktop right now we are not connected to wireless
let's go ahead and uh all right because i couldn't do the
first time setup it didn't actually let me check the country that i'm in
we are in canada gotta tell it that for
regulatory purposes
vancouver the uh user interface
in raspberry pi os is a little bare bones
and of course it needs to reboot that's another thing
unlike most Linux distributions raspberry pi os requires a reboot a lot
why isn't it connecting to wi-fi like this could just be our wi-fi being our
wi-fi it's been a little bit spotty today uh
oh 2.4 gigahertz looks like it get connected
yeah okay i mean not like we want to use
2.4 gigahertz so let's just go to youtube and uh see
what that's like let's take it a moment why does it have
u-block origin in it and h2 okay h264ifi is an extension that
you'd probably want on a raspberry pi because Linux doesn't support or at
least didn't it does now hardware accelerated video decoding for
web browsers this shouldn't come out two years ago
that did not go to full screen gracefully yeah that's that's definitely
doing some tearing and other random stuff that is not great this
shouldn't be pinning the CPU this hard and that's just back to normal again
it's like it needs time to fill up the buffer or something
it takes a while to pause yeah
wow yeah actually you know what
uh maybe what version of chromium is this
version 78
checking uh that all looks pretty out of date all right i'll let that
update i guess the version of raspberry pi os that's on here right now
uh is pretty old i will say this though
like as kind of bad as this desktop experience is
i would have killed for this as a kid can't imagine Windows for ARM would be
very fast on this though listen i'm not trashing the pie i'm just
saying that there are certain things that it's better at than others
the pi 4 is the first one that's truly been considered like
desktop capable and yeah it is
for some of the things you might want to do like if i was a kid doing homework i could do it on that
watching youtube unless i have this
done uh kind of painful
but there are other very very exciting things that this can do
let me quickly look up what it takes to take it apart get it open i used a plexiglas
cutter yeah that's a pretty tight seam i don't i don't know about that well
here's this guy's vlog or blog thanks jeff now we get to see
that oh boy i uh oh there we go
now we get to see that on the inside it's a long boy pie
that's that's what that's that's what it is now
it's a long boy pie it's not strictly
designed to be a desktop computer it can be one for a i'm gonna say like a
kid or somebody who just wants to have something that they can break out
and like hook some stuff up to and mess around
with it so i would say this is kind of for students or for you know tinkerers that kind of
thing people who would want a raspberry pi but
like want to have like a dedicated machine for tinkering
yeah i'm just finished now this
128 finish yes
so that should have enabled hardware accelerated rendering
yeah it's still doing that less
uh you know less of it
that was like one third of the time yeah
like it is a lot faster now and there's more you can do with it like
it's it's made for tinkerers people who want to get their hands dirty with this kind of stuff
they don't like provide what i would consider to be sensible defaults they
just give you the system and say hey okay here you go that's kind of neat there are other
options for operating systems as well this is just
raspberry pi os so your mileage may vary now moving on to
the gpio pins what are these for it stands for general
purpose input output basically what these do is these give
you a direct controllable set of pins that you can
just plug stuff into so let's say you've got a little breakout board or cable or something
that you can plug in i don't know a snes controller super
nintendo controller with the right circuit setup you can plug that into the
general purpose i o port and it'll just work same thing goes for
um if you can get webcams for it so like
yeah it's it's the kind of thing that back in the day
when i was in like high school and junior high school i
would have used a like computer with a breakout board
that i plugged in with a serial connection and i'd be like okay so in my visual
basic program i can press a button and the led lights
up and that was the coolest thing ever
except i didn't actually have full access to
that i couldn't use it outside of the courses that were
assigned to me as like a computer course so like i
couldn't tinker with it i couldn't be like oh hey this led lights up when i do this so
if i were to do i don't know some other sequence of
events if i may make it so that when this program runs this led will
blink and if it crashes then this led will blink
or something like that like it can just get much much more complex you can make
it do basically whatever you want there are people who make robots
with raspberry pi gpio here this is a
quick reaction game it just basically has a few wires that
plug into this breadboard and they plug into these gpio pins
you have a button here an led here and a button here
so i guess it's a two player game one person has one button the other person
has the other as soon as light goes on you press
and you can make that it's really only limited by the number of
pins you have so like here we have
a module that is essentially just an led
array so you can write out messages in it
a bunch of voltage lines there's a bunch of just gpio lines and there's
the eeprom lines which are not necessarily all that
useful for most people i would say and
that is awesome that's something that has been possible to do since the raspberry pi
one and now it's in a form factor that is i would say
accessible to kids and i would say that this is the perfect
thing for a kid that has you know kind
of imagination and a little bit of a tinkering spirit you know uh
kind of the digital equivalent of like meccano
or something like that back in the day anyway uh
yeah i'm just getting flustered because there's so much stuff you can do with it
and it's difficult for me to get across how cool that is that basically just has
everything you need except for the screen and you can just plug it into your tv and plug it into your monitor
plug it in wherever you can get a the signal with HDMI and just
start going with it i don't know what else to say about it
more in depth oh man i would love to
take a look at this in more depth than LTT maybe we can use it in a project or
something maybe we can find something like uh i don't know a desk pc or like
uh some kind of switchable desk thing where we can use the keyboard
to interact with like obs scenes or something i don't know
like there are so many different things you can do and it's just
uh yeah let me know if you want to see that in a ltte at some point in the
future but for now thanks for watching
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