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  • Re: Homebrew pi400

    From Daniel@3:633/280.2 to All on Sunday, September 28, 2025 17:51:32
    Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> writes:

    On 11/12/2024 Andy Burns wrote:

    Presumably, before too long there will be a Pi5x0 where the M.2
    socket and associated components are fitted.
    Pi500+ now available, 16GB RAM, 256GB M.2 and much nicer keyboard

    <https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-500-plus>

    I'm seriously considering it, only found out about it the other
    day. Incidentally i was considering doing a jimmy rig of a wireless full keyboard with a 3d printed bottom shell for my pi500. The pi400 is long
    gone. I took the mobo out and ceremoniously destroyed the keyboard. It's
    dust.

    The 500's keyboard is 90% better. THe spacebar is still a hunk of shit.

    I'm sort of nervous that the 500+'s spacebar is junk. Will it register a keypress if the thumb hits it on the far side? I don't know.

    I do like the nvme addition. If you read the most current copy of
    raspberry pi magazine, they go into detail about it, as well as an
    interview with the engineers who designed it.

    What bugs me is their intention to customize their keycaps and insist on
    a custom power button that most other keycap replacements lack. That,
    and nonstandard buttons for led controls, etc.

    They brag about being able to replace the keys, but can't replace them
    all. The enter key is also non-standard and replacement keys have to be fenagled to fit right.

    I sort of hesitate on getting the 500+. I saw somewhere a kit can be
    installed under the keys to make them less clacky. Any truth to that?

    D



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  • From Chris Schram@3:633/280.2 to All on Sunday, September 28, 2025 18:57:41
    On Sun, 28 Sep 2025 09:22:11 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:

    Daniel wrote:

    The enter key is also non-standard

    At least it's ISO shaped.

    When will the rPi 500++ come out with in-built RTC battery and PoE?

    I was a bit surprised to find NO mention of the RTC in the 500+'s data
    sheet.

    Currently I am running a Pi4 with an RTC backed up with a fairly tiny supercapacitor. I read a claim (which I have not independently verified)
    that the supercapacitor can keep my clock running accurately for a month
    or longer with no external power applied.

    When the Pi5 was first introduced, both lithium battery and supercapacitor options were discussed for RTC backup, but since then I've read close to nothing of the supercapacitor option.

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  • From Danny Bee@1:105/420 to The Natural Philosopher on Wednesday, October 01, 2025 06:43:43
    Apart from the teeny keycap legends,

    <https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-500-plus>

    and a price above many a desktop PC. :-(

    $200 what kind of Intel desktop PC you can get for this money, outside mini PCs that yeah... similar performance actually but different platform and design goals and purpose.

    ... Xerox Alto was the thing. Anything after we use is just a mere copy.

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