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pi-top the company

make educational products using the rasp-pi

uk based company 24 million $ funding 3 employees

products

pitop ceed

pitop 2 laptop

pitop 3 laptop

pitop 4 case+ for rpi4

robot kit, etc

my pi-top 3

had a pi-top 2, keyboard was bad, battery was worse

ebay purchase pi-top 3, wanted to try new form factor and see if the battery was better

came with experimentor kit, included a slide in solderless breadboard, and an rpi!

description

modifications

slackware install,lost some of the built in scripts that monitored the system, especially battery monitoring

added a daughter board with an atmega328 running forth to do the battery monitoring

added an rtc ds1307, installed via instructions from the sarpi website

pluses

better keyboard, with better mechanical design

better battery life, charging great

better screen

minuses

charging board seems closed source, that would be the keys to the kingdom

old software hard to come by

stuck in rpi3 form factor

plans

+upgrade to slackware 15-64 bit+

leave the rpi and go to a pineboard

reverse engineer charging board?

easier to modify case to accept new hardware