- 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 inside here I'll have to
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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.
