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<h3 id="pi-top-the-company">pi-top the company</h3>
<ul>
<li>make educational products using the rasp-pi</li>
<li>uk based company 24 million $ funding 3 employees</li>
<li>products
<ul>
<li>pitop ceed</li>
<li>pitop 2 laptop</li>
<li>pitop 3 laptop</li>
<li>pitop 4 case+ for rpi4</li>
<li>robot kit, etc</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="my-pi-top-3">my pi-top 3</h3>
<ul>
<li>had a pi-top 2, keyboard was bad, battery was worse</li>
<li>ebay purchase pi-top 3, wanted to try new form factor and see if the battery was better</li>
<li>came with experimentor kit, included a slide in solderless breadboard, and an rpi!</li>
<li>description</li>
<li>modifications
<ul>
<li>slackware install,lost some of the built in scripts that monitored the system, especially battery monitoring</li>
<li>added a daughter board with an atmega328 running forth to do the battery monitoring</li>
<li>added an rtc ds1307, installed via instructions from the sarpi website</li>
</ul></li>
<li>pluses
<ul>
<li>better keyboard, with better mechanical design</li>
<li>better battery life, charging great</li>
<li>better screen</li>
</ul></li>
<li>minuses
<ul>
<li>charging board seems closed source, that would be the keys to the kingdom</li>
<li>old software hard to come by</li>
<li>stuck in rpi3 form factor</li>
</ul></li>
<li>plans
<ul>
<li>+upgrade to slackware 15-64 bit+</li>
<li>leave the rpi and go to a pineboard</li>
<li>reverse engineer charging board?</li>
<li>easier to modify case to accept new hardware</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
