MutantC V2- DIY Raspberry Pi handheld Computer

All the Raspbians who are trying to keep themselves busy with their Raspberry Pi during this lockdown period should look at this project. It’s the Mini Raspberry Pi handheld computer system called as The MutantC V2. MutantC v2 is a DIY handheld Raspberry Pi computer with a slide-out keyboard. This gadget has some expansion ports under the hood so that can build your project around it like you can add certain features as per your requirement such as a GPS module.

“A Raspberry pi UMPC. An open platform device to use and create.It is fully open-source hardware. So you can hack it as you wish.You can make your expansion-card like GPS, Radio etc and attach them. You can access all the ports of the pi and the back part is attached with 4 screw. It can hold a 4″ or 3.5” touch screen. Also have a physical keyboard attached via USB. It don’t need any custom image of Raspbian. You can use vanilla Raspbian and install the LCD driver, that’s it.”

Features of the Raspberry Pi handheld :

– Fully open-source hardware. So you can Hack it as you wish.
– You can make your expansion-card like gps, Radio etc and attach with it.
– You can use Littlevgl make UI that don’t need a OS form here.
– You can use any Raspberry-pi form factor like Asus Tinker Board S / PINE H64 Model B/ Banana Pi BPI-M4B etc. You can use Pi zero to 4.
– You can acess all the ports of the pi and the back part is attached with 4 screw.
– It can hold a 4″ or 3.5″ touch screen. Also have a physical keyboard attached via USB.
– 18650 battery with charge and discharge protaction ..
– Added Adafruit STEMMA QT and SparkFun qwiic connector.
– It don’t need any custom image of Raspbian. You can use vanilla Raspbian and install the LCD driver, that’s it.
– So little parts needed to make one. See the parts_list .
– You can use C Suite Application suite made mor touch based device in this. These apps are suitable for small screens.

Source: GitLab