![]() THIS WILL MESS UP THE LID OF YOUR COMPUTER PERMANENTLY so obviously you only do this if you're OK with leaving sticky residue behind if/when your ever remove this setup. ![]() ![]() I'll demo that at the end of this instructable with the 'blink' program that shows when your RPi has booted up and is ready for use. Linux on a Windows PC is something that you could approximate with just emulation (eg VirtualBox), so to take full advantage of the Raspberry Pi I've also attached a breadboard next to the RPi that lets me build circuits using it as well. So by clicking on the vnc icon I can turn the computer instantly from a Windows portable into a Raspberry Pi portable. The windows PC shares its wifi connection over its ethernet port, and for keyboard and display I run tightvncserver on the RPi and tightvnc viewer on the Windows. The basic idea is ridiculously simple: attach a Raspberry Pi to the lid of the portable and connect it with a short USB cable for power and a short Ethernet cable for networking. I call this my "Frankenputer" because it is stitched together out of two separate computers. I had a sudden flash of an idea and with a "Presto Changeo!" flourish, I turned my HP Windows portable into a Raspberry Pi portable in just an afternoon! I've been into the Raspberry Pi for quite a while now and I've always hankered after making a decent portable computer out of an RPi, but having tried to build one using either a Motorola Atrix lapdock, or the RPi touchscreen display, neither of which was very successful, I had almost given up.
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