The Pi 4 Laptop and C201 Failures

Back at it again with the new things to tinker with!

This time I nabbed a Raspberry Pi 4 plus a FLIRC Case and various accessories to see if I could replicate a Pi 4 Lapdock project someone did already. Looks pretty much plug and play….

This Pi 4 laptop was meant to hold me over until the Pinebook Pro December Batch ships out. Here’s a shot of the Omars cheap external battery I’ll be using. This one has Power Delivery through USB-C so I know for sure it can power the Pi 4.

Here’s a shot of the Pi 4 in its case on top of the Motorola Lapdock I grabbed for super cheap on eBay.

The Lapdock was once used as a docking station of sorts for the failed Motorola Atrix phone project from Motorola. Fear not, my friends! It lives on through projects!

With the proper connectors (linked above when I mentioned the Pi 4 Lapdock project) you can easily plug in the Pi 4, though this more powerful unit needs power from an external battery due to the improvements over the prior model. The good news is that we’ll be going straight from Micro-HDMI to Micro-HDMI so you likely won’t need an adapter!

After plugging up the connections, and later on powering up the Pi 4……I realize I ended up losing the power adapter for the Motorola Lapdock D: so it looks like I’ll be waiting a while for a replacement to arrive.

…….however…

I took apart a replacement ASUS C201 Chromebook I found on eBay and removed the write-protect screw again…but forgot to plug the trackpad in before I left for home….we’ll see if we can properly enable Developer Mode on this next time and see if we can Libreboot it!