We are all familiar enough by now with the succession of boards that have come from Raspberry Pi in Cambridge over the years, and when a new one comes out we’ve got a pretty good idea what to expect.

BlackBerry Pi is a handheld device featuring a BlackBerry keyboard, trackpad, and 3D-printed parts. Components include a 4-inch display, 10,000mah batteries, and a Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB of RAM.

Raspberry Pi boards are no longer constrained – these days, you can get a quad-core board with 8 or 16GB of RAM to go around, equip it with a heatsink, and get a decently comfortable shop/desk/kitchen ...

The Raspberry Pi is starting to feel like a square peg in a round hole.

Sometimes, you don't have direct access to the Raspberry Pi running your project. Perhaps it's installed outdoors with no display and keyboard attached. Or maybe it was squeezed into a compact chassis ...