ELECROW CrowPi 2 All-in-one Kit Compatible for Raspberry Pi 4/5 Laptop, Without RPi 5 Board, Learning Programming Sensor Kit with 11.6 Inch IPS Screen for Professional Adult (Basic Kit)

Maybe a year before this device came out, I set myself a goal...to create a form factor case for Raspberry Pi hardware that was future-proof. Well, I succeeded at a prototype, but prototypes are clunky and a production system is hard to move in a niche market. It did, however, make use of Pi foundation standard resources, and allowed access to all the ports. Then Elecrow came out with this wonder. I had to say..."where was this a year ago?!" Elecrow offers a couple of different solutions for making a Raspberry Pi minicomputer usable and portable for novice learners, tinkerers, and professional developers alike. This is a simpler solution with far better streamlined and simplified integration. This is a self-contained chassis that, unlike the Pi400, does not require an additional monitor or additional hardware for battery power management. Also, you can put the 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 into this device (the Pi400 tops out at 4GB of RAM). It doesn't need to carry a board of sensors, displays, and buttons so the novice can learn and the professional can test. With a breakout board, you get full external access to the GPIO for hardware control systems. All you need is a ribbon cable, a breadboard breakout, and whatever electronic parts you want to work with. I dinged it 2 stars on the "easy to assemble" part for one reason...it's hard to swap micro SD cards. Elecrow does give you a nice 2-boot drive module which lets you switch between microSD boots. The downside, though, is that if you have more than 2 installations, it's difficult to swap cards. (Elecrow could have saved the hassle by extending the microSD socket to an external port on the housing.) But, I still recommend this for both education and professional developers. For education, it's an inexpensive way to make sure kids have access to a versatile STEM tool with GUI-based software that is compatible with industry-standard stuff that's out today (LibreOffice files will export to MS Office, GIMP runs with similar mathematics to Photoshop). For pro developers and engineers, it gives you a lightweight digital swiss army knife. Some tips: 1: You can run a raspbian build on this laptop without too much hassle. However, you should back up all your irreplaceable assets and make notes on what you can re-install from the software manager, then rebuild an image from scratch. It's tedious but you only need to redo it once. 2: Put the build you're going to use most often in the "B" slot on the microSD adapter, because it's going to be harder to access later. 3: Save the microSD card that comes with it...especially if you want to learn stuff. But it also serves as a "standard" for rebuilding later.

I bought this one and the crowpi 2. Out of the two, get this one every time, for what I want to do, its awesome. Having the built in battery, i can use it as a laptop and also mess around with learning how to use a pi in other projects. This is a simple and convenient way to get into learning about pi's and how to implement them. The good- decent battery life good size keyboard is very usable, large enough to use for programing. I like the idea of the switchable OS (switching to different memory cards) the bad- The 40 pin gpio port on the side- WHAT MORON decided that needs to be a smaller layout than the pi uses? now the only option I had is to buy a special made thing from your website to actually use the pins. i ordered it several weeks ago and I am still waiting on it to show up. It was like 2 bucks, include that with the laptop, charge me 2 dollars, what the heck? The color- is white really the only option? The mouse pad. I get you probably did the best you could, but a trackpoint would have been a better option here without killing the keyboard layout. The magnetic cover on the bottom - not the best way to do that, make it snap in place. Magnets really dont make sense. the fan- its loud and there had to be a better way to implement this. the GPIO label above the keyboard- put some LED's in there to indicate high or low so I can test programs without having to hook it up to something. No speakers? really? put a switch recessed on the side that I can switch the os with without taking a panel off, thats not too hard to implement. even better, extend the card reader to the side of the pi and give us the option of Micro sd or standard size SDs. Maybe add a standard size SD reader on the side for extra storage. The OS, make it work with the standard raspian os that we can get from the official site, but give us downloads that has scripts to implement the battery charge and all the extra stuff you want to add in. or just put all that crap on a card that is in the storage slot. How can I see the battery charge using another os? like kali or some other option in the second slot? give us a way to add those functions. overall - buy it if you are tempted, it is worth it. BUT, Elecrow, listen to the cons and give us another revision with the complaints addressed and ill buy it as soon as it comes out.

Amazing kit to get started with Raspberry Pi. The convenience of having some basic components like sensors and displays built into the case itself is pretty handy, but also allows one to expand their experiments by exposing a number of I/O ports. The look and feel is marketed towards kids getting started with STEM, but there's enough here for adults to get into as well. Could you do the same with buying a basic Pi kit and those basic components separately? Sure, but having it in one unit will definitely make it less daunting for beginners. Likely cheaper, too, all things considered. Extra props to the company for resolving issues very quickly, too. A++ team.

This thing is TOTAL JUNK ALL YOU SPONSOR-PAID (BRIBED) PROPONENTS WHO FAWNED & GUSHED ALL OVER THIS PRODUCT: You’re all full of it. $399.00 for a SEMI-functioning $99 RPi. You have to be kidding me. The PACKAGING is well-laid-out-and-professional-looking. There are lots of cool GADGETS all over the place. There are numerous YouTube INFLUENCERS hyping your product release and I FELL for their "pitch. Computer programmer / penetration tester David from Rancho Mirage CA.

apres quelques essais, jai trouvé une version de pimiga4 qui fonctionne impec et reconnait le son, le wifi, ma manette nvidia, nikel pour se faire une petite machine retro juste le clavier en qwerty, et une solution a trouver pour la jauge batterie

Das Produkt funktioniert sehr gut mit dem RaPi 4B. - Einziges Manko: Auch nach 6 Versuchen innerhalb eines halben Jahres KEINE Rechnung erhalten, weder von Amazon (3x), noch von Zwischenhändler, noch vom Hersteller. Schade, es ist nicht zu verstehen wieso es keine Rechnung gibt (für die Steuer abzusetzen nötig!); Das Argument bzgl. Einfuhrzölle, ja, ist jedoch über Amazon bezahlt, also wer stellt die Rechnung aus? Bisher keine Antwort, trotz persönlicher Zusagen von Amazon erhalten. - Sehr Schade.

I thought I should review this case, as I hoped to clarify a few things for any potential purchasers. I use a raspberry pi 400 every day for most of my day to day computing. It is pretty much ideal for this. But, when traveling, if I want to take it with me, it is a bit less convenient - I need a mouse, my monitor and cables - I need to connect everything up when I want to use it. So, I thought that a Pi laptop would be the ideal solution. I would only need my SD cards and a power cable. The big downside for me is that there is no sd card slot built into the case, that can be easily accessed, as on my pi 400. the cards (1 or 2) can only be installed by removing the bottom of the case. The pi laptop will boot from a usb pen drive but, I have a set of different SD cards installed and ready to use for different purposes. I discovered that using my cards with an external usb card reader solves the problem and leaving both the built-in sd card slots empty. Another problem that I had was that I did not want to use the customised OS card that was provided but, a standard PI OS installation as on my Pi 400. The standard installation doesn't detect the built-in battery which only has a battery life of 3 hours so, knowing the amount of battery life remaining is quite important. I checked on the internet and could not find any solution that worked for me. So, I will not really be able to use the laptop when traveling unless it is plugged into power or just for very short periods. Also, it is necessary to adjust the standard screen resolution of Pi OS to a lower one - 1024X768 works fine. If it had been cheaper, I would have still considered it worth buying but, at the price, which is fairly extortionate when compared to what other pi cases cost, it really wasn't. However, I could not find anything similar and or better, and apart from my issues, this case works well. I think the keyboard is superior to the one on my pi 400 so, it is better for doing a lot of typing. And since the pi 4b has very low power requirements, the 2 together create an extremely low power laptop - in that respect, ideal for running off solar power when off grid. So, I can still make good use of it but, would only recommend it if the price was considerably reduced or a pi4b was included wit it. Update: Unfortunately, I had further problems with this laptop case. I found that it was frequently not booting up. It appeared that the battery was not charging as it would not boot up at all without being plugged into the mains. So, I realised that it simply wasn't reliable enough to be usable and have returned it. It is unfortunate because the idea of having a pi laptop would appeal to many raspberry pi fans, I am sure. But, this case is just too flawed in it's design, for regular use.

I think it's great having a Raspberry Pi laptop, and after carefully assembling the Crowpi L with the dual card, with Raspberry OS on one side, a d RiscOS on the other, it booted into RiscOS no problem. Both the keyboard and mouse did not work at this point. I switched over to Raspberry OS. At first it didn't boot from the dual card interface, so I removed it and booted the SD card directly on the Pi, and while the wireless mouse worked, I had to use an external keyboard as the CrowPi's keyboard appears to be dead. I do get a bunch of USB error messages on start up. After a while, the display stopped outputting, and that's where I felt sad, as at this point, I knew I'd be recovering my Pi4 and boxing the Crowpi L back up for a return. A real shame, but it did not live up to expectations.

Did not provide all the kit.