- 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 this is the Raspberry Pi 400.
It is a fully self-contained computer
and keyboard all in one.
And this is the full personal computer kit.
It comes with a mouse, as well as a bunch
of other goodies here.
Around back it'll say, meet 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 (chuckles).
I remember this is like the thing
that everyone's like, oh, well the Raspberry Pi
like one of these days it'll be a full computer
and you'll be able to just get a full computer
for like a hundred 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 kits a hundred dollars, I just looked.
- [Jono] What?
- Yeah, it's like $70 for the computer on its own,
and for the whole kit, it's a hundred bucks.
- [Jono] I didn't know that (chuckles).
- Yeah, that's why it's so cool.
It's running an ARM processor.
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.
There's no cute little message or anything on the inside.
I mean, I dunno what I was expecting, it's a hundred bucks.
$101, actually, this isn't too bad.
Keyboard front and center which I mean it's the computer.
Oh, 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, three 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.
- [Jono] Does that act as a storage?
- That is the storage.
And this is the Raspberry Pi mouse.
Oh ooh, I broke the box.
Jono you really need to get me knives
for when I sit down here.
- [Jono] No one gets knives.
- Yeah, I know. (chuckles)
Is this going back to them?
Oh, you mean it's coming back home with me?
- [Jono] What? (chuckles)
With every Short Circuit you say you wanna steal something.
- It's not every Short Circuit.
I'm sure if you went back through the Short Circuits,
you'd find a Short Circuit or two
where I didn't wanna steal whatever it was I was reviewing.
Oh look at that, isn't that cute?
It's a little mouse.
Basically as basic as it gets.
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
or your high speed connectivity.
And you could just get a wireless dongle.
This mouse isn't great anyway,
but it's included in the box for a hundred bucks.
Speaking of things included in the box.
There is oh, ooh
That is a thick boy starter guide, like it is.
- [Jono] That's not a starter guide.
- It says the official Raspberry Pi beginner's guide.
How to use your computer fully updated
for Raspberry Pi 400 4th Edition by Gareth Halfacree.
This book is written to show you just how easy it is
to get started.
Learn how to (chuckles).
- [Jono] That's not easy.
- Hold on, it's actually pretty well illustrated.
There's like a whole lot of illustrations on here
and screenshots and stuff.
Do you have a, there's a, I don't think there's screws.
I don't know if I wanna split this apart like that.
Yeah, this is a Pi four.
I don't know what the cooling solution looks like
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All right, let's get into it virtually at first.
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.
I think you can also use a hub off of that.
Two USB 3.0, 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, it's scuffed right in here.
Man, I don't like Micro HDMI.
Let's get our mouse plugged in.
Now, clearly that mouse port was designed
for left-handed people.
So it should actually,
and thankfully did have a Raspberry Pi OS set up
and ready to go as it is.
So let's get started.
Ah, we probably should, shouldn't we?
That'll do it.
Why does it say, OBS virtual camera.
Device is in use by other software.
It's a lost cause.
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.
- [Brandon] It doesn't have a power switch?
- No.
So this is the default desktop.
Right now we are not connected to wireless.
Let's go ahead and, all right,
because I couldn't do the first time set up.
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 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 WiFi?
Like this could just be our WiFi being our WiFi.
It's been a little bit spotty today.
Oh, 2.4 gigahertz looks like it connected.
Yeah okay, I mean, not like we want to use 2.4 gigahertz.
So let's just go to YouTube and see what that's like.
It's taking a moment.
Why does it have uBlock Origin in it?
Okay h264ify 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 should've come out two years ago
That did not go to full screen gracefully.
Yeah, 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, it's back to normal again.
It's like it needs time to fill up the buffer or something.
- [Jono] It takes a while to pause?
- Yeah. - Oh no.
- Yeah actually you know what, maybe, what version
of Chromium is this?
Version 78.
- [Jono] The old version of Chromium?
- Checking, that'll all looks pretty out of date.
All right, we'll let that update I guess.
The version of Raspberry Pi OS
that's on here right now is pretty old.
I will say this though, like as kind of bad
as this desktop experience is I would've killed
for this as a kid.
Can't imagine Windows for ARM will be very fast
on this though.
Listen, I'm not trashing the Pi, I'm just saying
that there are certain things
that it's better at than others.
The Pi four is the first one that's truly been considered
like desktop capable.
And yeah it is for some of the things you'd wanna do?
Like if I was a kid doing homework, I could do it on that.
Watching YouTube, unless I have have this done,
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.
To get it open, I used a plexiglass cutter.
Yeah, it's a pretty tight seam.
I don't know about that.
Well, here's this guy's log or blog.
Thanks Jeff, now we get to see that oh boy.
There we go.
Now we get to see that on the inside it's a long boy Pi.
That's what it is, now, it's a long boy Pi.
It's not strictly designed to be a desktop computer.
It can be one for a, I'm going to say like a kid
or somebody who just wants to have something
that they can break out and like hooks himself up to
and mess around with it.
So I would say this is kind of for students
or for 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've just finished, now this.
128, finish, yes.
So that should have enabled hardware accelerated rendering.
Yeah, it's still doing that.
Less, you know, less of it.
- [Brandon] This is definitely an inception.
- [Jono] But that was like 1/3 of the time.
- Yeah, like it is a lot faster now
and there's more you can do with it.
Like 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 dunno, a Snes controller, Super Nintendo controller.
With the right circuit set up you can plug
that into the general purpose IO port and it'll just work.
Same thing goes for, if you can get webcams for it.
So like, yeah, 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 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 e-brown 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 an imagination
and a little bit of a tinkering spirit, you know.
Kind of the digital equivalent of like Meccano
or something like that back in the day.
Anyway, 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 the signal with HDMI
and just start going with it.
I don't know what else to say about it.
- [Jono] Do you want us to, check it out more
in depth on LTT, leave a comment down below.
- Oh man, I would love to take a look at this
in more depth in LTT.
Maybe we can use it in a project or something.
Maybe we can find something like a, I dunno a desk PC
or like some kind of switchable desk thing
where we can use the keyboard to interact
with like an OBS scenes or something, I don't know.
Like there are so many different things you can do
and it's just.
Yeah, let me know if you want to see
that in a LTT at some point in the future.
But for now, thanks for watching.
And I guess subscribe if you enjoyed my little stumbling
through the Raspberry Pi 400,
and I guess I'll see you in the next one.