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Portable Pi with Motorola Atrix LapDock (UK , US)

Started by Malakai , Mar 10 2014 12:09 AM

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#1 Malakai

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Posted 10 March 2014 - 12:09 AM

Been done quite a lot here's an easy and more up to date tutorial from Rasathus' Raspberry Ramblings - @Rasathus

http://rasathus.blog...p-easy-way.html

To build your own Raspberry Pi laptop, you'll need the following items ...

Shopping List :

1 x Raspberry Pi Revision 2
1 x Motorola Atrix LapDock (UK , US)
1 x Female USB Micro to Male USB A connector (UK , US)
1 x Micro USB Female to Male extension cable (UK , US)
1 x Female Micro HDMI to HDMI Male connector (UK , US)
1 x HDMI coupler (UK , US)
1 x 30cm HDMI cable (UK , US)

NOTE: LAPDOCK 100 AND RASPBERRYPI aren't as friendly as the older model. HDMI output on the 100 is touchy. But the old model works quite well.

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Posted 10 March 2014 - 04:07 AM

I have a couple of bionic lap docks. I think I will give this a whirl

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Posted 10 March 2014 - 08:00 AM

I have a couple of bionic lap docks. I think I will give this a whirl

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I have a bionic lapdock, have not tried it with a pi, but it does successfully work as a regular HDMI monitor.
Down side is volume is max, can only be adjusted from the source.

Also with the right combo of adapters, the keyboard and trackpad work too

Just beware the lapdock sends power out the micro USB, if hooked to a PC that also outputs power, not so happy. I just modified a cable by cutting the red wire

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Looks like the pi will accept power in over USB out. Cool.

Now if I was more software oriented instead of hardware, I might be able to do something with a pi.

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Posted 10 March 2014 - 03:38 PM

With a newer Pi go back to a regular USB cable so it can power the Pi. Get a media center like Raspbmc and have it scroll though photos. It's fun for the Holidays when family is over put it in a corner. Or play music and shows. Great conversation piece.

Tons of stuff to do without coding just grab an image install and go. As far as sound it's easy to adjust in any XBMC build.

I would reference this thread. You may have to read it backwards (Start at page 31 or so and go back through it as so much has changed since it started some bugs have been fixed, etc.. )

http://www.raspberry...=6747&start=725