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Its been a while since I wrote my first blog post on this (Challenged to build a Raspberry PI Laptop – Part 1) following on from the challenge I had been set by Lewis Richards.
Mainly due to other things taking my time, I’ve not been focusing on it, but have now purchased the relevant parts and am pulling together a design.
I have used fritzing to map out a rough circuit diagram based on research and reading I have been doing on the relevant parts for the laptop.
There isn’t a correct part in fritzing yet for the screen I chose so I have used a different part with a connector to show the relevant connections. Its on my to do list to look at creating the part properly.
Here is the parts list of the laptop. Similar to a lot of the designs on the internet already, although I am thinking about the idea of adding an arduino based board to it as well.
Parts List
- Raspberry PI Zero W
- AdaFruit Powerboost 500
- XPT2046 LCD Touch Screen
- 2000mAH Battery
- Wires
- Switch
- Bluetooth Mini keyboard
The diagram does not yet show the keyboard wired in. It has its own battery inside so a bit more investigating on best to power using the one battery in the circuit.
Next on the list is to start the case design. I have a few ideas which I will try and write up in another blog post.
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