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    Raspberry Pi tablet

    Nov 17, 2020 5 minutes

    Christian Cawley builds his own using a RasPad 3 kit.

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    Portability and immediacy are missing from the Raspberry Pi by default. It’s hardly a surprise, though: the barebones nature of the Raspberry Pi package underlines its versatility. A common way to overcome both problems is to convert the Pi into a tablet. Various solutions have been developed for this, but Sunfounder’s RasPad kit is leading the field.

    New in 2020 is the RasPad 3 kit, which has been designed specifically for the Raspberry Pi 4 (priced $213, see ).You’ll also need a 16GB or larger microSD card, and an adaptor for installing the operating system. The potential to have an 8GB

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