The Raspberry Pi 500 integrates a Pi computer into a full-sized keyboard, offering a compact computing platform, says Tom Fenton in his first look.

The [Tymkrs] crew has come up with a pretty neat circuit bent toy keyboard hack. It’s been a while since we’ve seen a good circuit bending hack. This project started as a way to demo th… ...

The circuit is simple enough: a CMOS analogue multiplexer does the routing, and a set of opto-couplers do the selecting based on the power inputs. A set of USB A sockets connect to the computer ...

It feels a lot like InFocus’s $99 Kangaroo PC, which similarly stuffs an entire Windows computer into a pocket-able form factor, but trading out the Kangaroo’s battery for a floppy keyboard.

But then for screen and keyboard, how hard would it be to connect a laptop to the mini-itx, ignore the innards of the laptop and just use the laptop's screen and keyboard.