If you liked the Raspberry Pi 400 , then we have no doubt that you are going to love DevTerm . Because it not only offers a very striking retro design, but also a series of extras with which you will have new possibilities. So don’t think about it and take a look at this particular proposal.
The great alternative to Raspberry Pi 400
One of the great successes of the Raspberry Pi 400 was to offer the popular development board inside a keyboard. Thanks to this integration, not only did it open new revenue streams for the company, but also the possibility that many less expert users would lose the fear of starting to use it. Although the great beneficiaries will undoubtedly be the educational centers.
Well, now and under that same idea of offering a keyboard with a Raspberry Pi inside comes DevTerm, an open source development kit that stands out for a series of additional elements and a very retro design that you like as soon as you see it.
As if it were one of those first laptops from the 80s, DevTerm is a very striking proposal by design and also by what it offers at the hardware level. And it is that next to that Raspberry Pi CM3 + Lite inside it also comes the possibility of using a module thanks to a motherboard designed by ClockWork and a screen integrated into the keyboard itself.
This screen is a 6.8-inch IPS panel that, although not excessively large, does offer a suitable desktop for certain uses thanks to its 1280 x 480 pixel resolution. Although best of all, the idea of the interior design seeks to offer a modular device that users with a greater knowledge of hardware issues can customize.
In this way, this DevTerm is designed to accept different modules, including one from a thermal printer that will surely be useful for some other use or a battery to gain portability. Of course, you will have to purchase it separately and on your own because DevTerm does not ship with a battery due to the problems that they carry when it comes to distribution due to security issues.
Five models available
DevTerm is available in five variants where the technical specifications are what vary. Because on the outside they are all exactly the same. So when it comes to getting one, you will have to choose whether the basic model with 1 GB of LPDDR3 RAM and a quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 processor or other more advanced configurations with 4 GB of LPDDR3 RAM and Cortex-A53 processor. six-core or Cortex -A72.
Where it does not change, in addition to the design, is in terms of connections and connectivity. DevTerm offers micro HDMI output, 3.5mm I / O audio jack, 40-pin GPIO jack, WiFI AC, and Bluetooth 5.0. And yes, it lacks a LAN or ethernet port. This could be a problem at first, but it can be solved by USB adapters that ethernet offers.
Finally, the price of this DevTerm is $ 219 for the base model with the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 and from there, with the modules customized by ClockWork, the price will go up. So now you know, if you are interested in its manufacturers, they hope to start making the first shipments in April 2021.
On the ClockWork website you have more information with prices and the odd device such as its popular GameShell that you shouldn’t see or it’s also likely that you fancy it.
