The Argon ONE UP is a laptop with a 14 inch, 1920 x 1200 pixel IPS LCD display, an aluminum body, backlit keyboard, and one thing that sets it apart from most other laptops: the Argon ONE UP is powered by a removable Raspberry Pi CM5 computer module. Argon40 has been making Raspberry Pi accessories like cases for years, but this year the company is branching out with its first laptop shell.

The HackberryPi_CM5 is a new project builds on the older HackberryPi that debuted last year. Replacing the Raspberry Pi Zero 2W with the more powerful Compute Module 5, the HackberryPi_CM5 creates a p...

There are a growing number of options for folks looking to purchase a handheld game console with a dual-screen design. But why buy one when you can make your own? The DSpi is a handheld with a clamshell design, two small screens, and an open source design - you can't actually buy one, but you can find design files, software, and a parts list in the developer's…

The Chuwi MiniBook is a mini-laptop with an 8 inch display that's been around in one form or another since 2019. Chuwi gave the little laptop a spec bump a few times over the years, and the most recent model features an Intel N100 Alder Lake-N processor. But I'm not aware of any stores that are actually selling that model...

The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 is tiny computer on a module with a quad-core Arm Cortex-A76 processor and up to 16GB of LPDDR4 memory, 64GB of eMMC storage, and optional support for WiFi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0, plus plenty of I/O capabilities. But it doesn't actually have any full-sized ports, and needs to be plugged into a carrier board for actual use.

The Argon ONE UP is a modular laptop with a 14 inch FHD+ display, a 55 Wh battery, and an M.2 slot for an SSD. What makes the Argon ONE UP unlike most laptops though is that it has a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 for brains. Argon Forty launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for the Argon ONE UP last summer, and now the company…

More than a year after launching a crowdfunding campaign for a pair of Raspberry Pi-powered handheld computers, the folks at Soulsircuit have announced a major change... and backers aren't particularly pleased. The Pilet 5 and Pilet 7 handhelds were originally positioned as handheld computer that would use a credit card-sized Raspberry Pi 5 Model B computer for brains. But this week Soulscircuit announced that the version that eventually ships to backers will be designed for a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 instead.

After showing up at a German trade fare earlier this month, the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 is now official. It's a 55 x 40mm (2.17" x 1.57") computer-on-a-module with the same 2.4 GHz Broadcom BC2712 ARM Cortex-A76 quad-core processor as the Raspberry Pi 5. It's currently available with up to 64GB of eMMC storage and up to 8GB of RAM, but Raspberry Pi also plans to add models with 16GB of memory sometime in 2025.

Argon40 is a company that sells Raspberry Pi accessories including cases, power supplies, cooling modules, and a kit that lets you transform a single-board computer into a network-attached storage device. Now Argon40 is working on its first laptop computer. But unsurprisingly it will be a laptop that's powered by a Raspberry Pi. The company hasn't released many details yet, but a p…

The makers of the Argon ONE line of accessories for Raspberry Pi computers have built a business around designing cases that add or change some key functions of the little computers by, for example, moving all of the ports to one side. But the upcoming Argon ONE UP takes things to the next level. It's a laptop computer that uses a Raspberry Pi 5 Compute Module for brains, which makes it a more modular, customizable laptop than most.

The credit card-sized Raspberry Pi Model B line of computers may be small, at just 85 x 56mm. But the Raspberry Compute Module 5 is even smaller, measuring just 55 x 40mm. Unfortunately this tiny computer-on-a-module isn't much use on its own, because it lacks the full-sized ports you'd need to connect a power source, display, keyboard, or other peripherals.

The Raspberry Pi CM5 computer-on-a-module features support for single-lane PCIe 2.0 or PCIe 3.0 connections. Most of the existing carrier boards for the CM5 use that to give you an M.2 slot that allows you to connect an SSD. But the Sentinel Core is a mini ITX board that gives you a full-sized PCIe x16 connector, allowing you to connect a desktop graphics card, among other things.

The Radxa Taco is a carrier board for a Raspberry Pi Compute Module that gives you ethernet, USB, and HDMI ports plus a microSD card reader and M.2 2280 and M.2 2230 slots. But this board also has SATA connectors that let your compute module to power a network-attached storage system with up to five hard drives. When Radxa first launched the Taco board in 2022…

Many modern TVs ships with software that will let you stream video from Netflix, YouTube, and other services. And if you're looking for something a little different, there's no shortage of cheap media streaming devices running Amazon, Google, or Apple software. But if you want something a little more versatile, you may want to consider plugging a full-fledged computer into your TV.

Waveshare is a company that gives its products descriptive names, not brief ones. So the full name of the company's new mini PC kit is longer than the headline for this article. But in a nutshell, the new Waveshare CM5-DUAL-ETH-BOX-B is a carrier board and an aluminum case for a Raspberry Pi Compute Module that lets you turn the tiny module into a pretty versatile little computer.

A small Chinese team called Zinwa have been making modern BlackBerry-style smartphones in small batches for a little while... first by literally stuffing the actual shells of old BlackBerry phones with modern motherboards running Android software, and more recently by developing new phones with designs that are heavily influenced by BlackBerry. Now Zinwa has shared a teaser for an upcoming model that will be the most powerful to date, thanks to a flagship-class MediaTek Dimensity 9300 processor.

The Google Pixel Tablet launched in mid-2023 as an Android tablet that you could also use as a smart display when paired with a speaker dock. With an 11 inch, 2.5K display, stylus support, and the same Google Tensor G2 processor used in the Pixel 7 smartphone lineup, it could have paved the way for things to come. But Google hasn't released a new model in more than two and a half years.

What's better than a Raspberry Pi Compute Module? If you're working on projects that support parallel processing, the answer might be two Raspberry Pi Compute Modules... or maybe four of them. The Cerebro clusterboard is designed to let you attach up to four compute modules to a single baseboard. It supports Raspberry Pi CM4 and CM5 compute modules, but it 

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has now introduced the Compute Module 5. Replacing the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4, the Raspberry Pi CM5 packs CPU, RAM and I/O upgrades for a $45 starting price.