**The First Look at the Raspberry Pi-Based 10.1 Inch LCD Unit**

We've got our hands on a unique Raspberry Pi-based unit with a 10.1 inch LCD screen, and we're excited to take a closer look at it. The unit has a sleek design, and upon initial inspection, it appears to be well-built. The front half of the unit features a single speaker, but surprisingly, both dual stereo speakers are working as intended. Additionally, we find volume and power control buttons on board, along with an antenna for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity.

**Removing the Custom PCB**

We begin by removing the custom PCB from the unit's casing. It looks like it was held in place using four screws, which we carefully remove to access the CM4 module underneath. The CM4 module is located at the back of the case and supports a 4G module, as well as a mini PCIe slot for future upgrades. We're particularly interested in testing out the 4G module, but for now, we'll focus on exploring the unit's capabilities.

**Examining the CM4 Module**

We carefully remove the CM4 module to examine its contents. As expected, it has a small amount of onboard storage (16 GB eMMC), and we also find a microSD card slot for expanding storage capacity. The module appears to be well-designed, with minimal external connectors except for the mini PCIe slot.

**Adding an SSD to the Unit**

We're intrigued by the possibility of adding a faster SSD to the unit's storage configuration. We've got an extra 128 GB SSD lying around, and we'd love to see if it can fit in the compact slot provided. We'll need to investigate whether this is feasible without damaging the unit's internal components.

**The Unit's Capabilities**

Despite being designed for stationary use, this unit has a wide range of potential applications, from building a mini weather station or Kodi media center to creating an emulation setup or even in-store signage. The built-in touch screen works surprisingly well, with decent performance on the 1280x800 resolution display. However, we would recommend adding external peripherals like a keyboard and mouse for a more traditional computing experience.

**A Missing Feature: Battery Power**

One feature that's noticeably absent from this unit is a built-in battery. As these units are intended for stationary use, it's not surprising, but it would be great to see some form of power management or even an integrated battery pack in the future.

**Challenges with Battery Selection**

We're facing an issue when it comes to selecting a suitable battery for this unit. The voltage requirements range from 9V to 36V, which is outside the typical range of our existing battery packs (5V). We'll need to find a solution that accommodates these higher voltages, possibly using a buck converter or alternative battery type like 18650 cells.

**Conclusion**

That's all for this first look at the Raspberry Pi-based 10.1 inch LCD unit. We're excited about the potential of this project and have already started planning our next steps, including sourcing parts for the white version and experimenting with different power solutions. If you're interested in learning more or following along with our progress, we'll leave links to Gypsy's website in the description below.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on everybody it's eta prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at an all-in-one cm4 powered little mini pc known as the aio cm4 101 by gypsy now these are really made for embedded systems but i was able to get my hands on a couple to take a look at and these are really impressive one of the best accessories that i've seen for the raspberry pi cm4 since it's been released so what this basically is is an all-in-one cm4 powered mini pc we got a 10.1 inch touchscreen we got some i o that we can get to on the back here and overall when it comes to these all-in-one little raspberry pi powered systems this is actually coming in on the thinner side of things now i've done a lot of reviews on different touch screen systems for the raspberry pi and they can get a bit bulky but since this one here is using the compute module 4 they were able to thin this thing down and it offers a bunch of different mounting solutions so this one here is just for sitting on a desk personally this is the way i like it but if we take a look at the back of these it does use a vasa mounting system and they also offer one of their mounts so it's kind of like a monitor mount that's fully adjustable around back here we have our volume control and power button and these are actually powered by a 12 volt 2 amp power supply so we have 24 watts here and this should be sufficient for the cm4 and the built-in screen as for io we have a 3.5 millimeter audio jack we also have usb otg this is a micro usb cable a sim card slot because this does support a 4g module that can be placed in the mini pci express slot that's inside of this unit micro sd card reader gigabit ethernet two usb 2.0 ports a power led indicator our power input and an rs232 relay connector so like i mentioned this is known as the aio cm4101 it's powered by that raspberry pi cm4 so when it comes to wi-fi and bluetooth it really depends on what module you want installed in here raspberry pi foundation offers a ton of different variants you can get them with or without bluetooth and wifi and up to eight gigabytes of ram a 10.1 inch ips touchscreen at 1280x800 with 10 points a touch built-in front-facing microphone optional 4g module 2 watt stereo speakers built-in and the operating voltage of this unit here is 9 volts to 36 i was really hoping it would run on five when i took it out of the box but we still have a very wide input range and these retail for 239 if you want to add that 4g module it's an extra 64. and the base stand is an extra 10. so here it is we got a 10.1 inch touchscreen at 1280x800 not the highest resolution but it still looks great on this form factor we also have those built-in 2 watt stereo speakers and they sound pretty decent for what we're getting here now the operating system that i'm running here is just basically stock raspberry pi os with a few little modifications and their test app built in that way i can test all of the built-in extras on this device here like the built-in buzzer we also have a front-facing microphone built in and it's ready to go just like it sits the cm4 unit that i'm using in this one only has two gigabytes of ram and we don't have built-in wi-fi and bluetooth but it does have 16 gigabytes of emmc storage built in and that's what i'm running the operating system from and i can tell you right now that the whole user experience does feel a lot more snappier than if i was to run it from a micro sd now even though these are meant for industrial or embedded applications it doesn't mean we can't have fun with this little unit we got a nice looking little touch screen here i got minecraft running as you can see um if you want to do some media playback from youtube or even netflix now that we have the ability to do it on the raspberry pi it'll work out just fine now we don't have perfect youtube video playback on the raspberry pi as a lot of us already know but at those lower resolutions it does a great job and with this screen only coming in at 1280x800 running these at 720p still looks really good now one of my main use case scenarios for something like this would be an awesome little emulation rig now i did try to boot up retropie on it but unfortunately i can't get it to work just yet but i will and really all i need to do is dig through their config.txt file they offer with their build of raspberry pi os but what i have now is a standalone version of a gba emulator and as you can see we do have a little bit of screen tearing it's not the screen itself because this is the only emulator i've noticed it in it really comes down to the configuration i'm using with said emulator because when i move over to the standalone version of ppsspp get really good performance no screen tearing here and keep in mind the cm4 that i have inside of this unit isn't even overclocked yet so before we wrap this video up i did kind of want to pull this thing apart and on the back i was looking for some screws but it looks like this is kind of snapped together so i got this little plastic spudger here it looks like it's coming off pretty easily and i'll lightly take the back and the front half apart so i don't break anything looks like we got three cables that need to be unplugged first one being the front microphone next up we have the lcd and the touch panel ribbon and i think that's about it so here's the front half of the unit just got that 10.1 inch lcd here now we can take a look at this so on their website it says it only has a single speaker but there are dual stereo speakers in here both of them are working we also have our volume and power control board plus we have this antenna for the wi-fi and bluetooth built into the cm4 i'm gonna go ahead and remove this custom pcb it looks like it's just held in here with four screws and once i have those out i'll go ahead and unplug the speakers and we'll carefully turn this over and our cm4 should be on this side there it is so we have our cm4 unit right on this custom pcb let me go ahead and get this wi-fi and bluetooth antenna unplugged this is just mounted to the back half of the case and yeah this looks really nice um i don't see any extra connectors except for that mini pcie slot which will support that 4g module that i mentioned at the beginning of the video you can mount it right here and maybe down the road i could test a pcie ssd in this unit but i do have on-board storage with this cm4 module this is the four gigabyte model with wi-fi bluetooth and 16 gigabytes of emmc storage i'm gonna go ahead and remove the module and we'll just take a look under it i don't think there's anything extra except for the connectors and here's a closer look so i've just removed that cm4 module and this will support any of the cm4 modules that the raspberry pi foundation offers and they offer a ton of different configurations so yeah this thing's definitely put together very well i would personally like to test out one of those 4g modules i'll see if i can get my hands on one but in the meantime i'm actually going to see if i can add an ssd to this slot here because i do have an extra one laying around not sure if it's going to work out and i really don't want to burn anything up but i think it would be worth a shot it would be really nice to add some faster storage to this unit even though i'm working with that 16 gigabyte emmc and we also have that micro sd card slot it would be nice to run my operating system from an ssd in this thing so overall i'm definitely enjoying these little systems the built-in touch screen does function quite well it's only 1280x800 but it still looks good on a 10.1 inch screen and touch functionality is dead on with this thing when it comes to raspberry pi os it was never really meant to be a touch operating system so i would recommend adding something like a keyboard and a mouse but there are tons and tons of different projects that you could do with something like this you could build a little mini weather station you can build a kodi media center you could build an emulation setup you could use something like this for in-store signage i mean the possibilities are really endless because after all this does have a raspberry pi inside of it but there's one thing missing from this that i would have loved to see and that's a built-in battery these aren't meant to be portable they're meant to be stationary that's why they have that vase amount but i will be adding a battery to the white version to make it fully portable now i am running into one issue these actually run anywhere from 9 volts to 36 volts and all of the little battery packs that i have that i usually use for my raspberry pi's and cm4s are 5 volts so i need to find a solution to this and when it comes to qualcomm quick charge if you have it plugged into something like this that doesn't support it it's not going to go up to that 9 to 12 volts so i'm only outputting 5 volts no matter what i do with these little battery packs but i will find a way around this and it'll probably come down to using a buck converter or some 18650 cells but i would like to keep this as compact as possible because it would be pretty awesome to have a little all-in-one battery-powered raspberry pi with a 10.1 inch screen like this so yeah that's gonna wrap it up for this video that was the first look at this little chipsy unit personally big fan of it got a project planned for the white version that i have here hopefully i can get that done in the next few days i've already ordered some parts to get this ready so keep an eye on the channel if you're interested in seeing that if you want to learn more about this i will leave links to gypsy's website in the description if you have any questions let me know in the comments below and like always thanks for watching youhey what's going on everybody it's eta prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at an all-in-one cm4 powered little mini pc known as the aio cm4 101 by gypsy now these are really made for embedded systems but i was able to get my hands on a couple to take a look at and these are really impressive one of the best accessories that i've seen for the raspberry pi cm4 since it's been released so what this basically is is an all-in-one cm4 powered mini pc we got a 10.1 inch touchscreen we got some i o that we can get to on the back here and overall when it comes to these all-in-one little raspberry pi powered systems this is actually coming in on the thinner side of things now i've done a lot of reviews on different touch screen systems for the raspberry pi and they can get a bit bulky but since this one here is using the compute module 4 they were able to thin this thing down and it offers a bunch of different mounting solutions so this one here is just for sitting on a desk personally this is the way i like it but if we take a look at the back of these it does use a vasa mounting system and they also offer one of their mounts so it's kind of like a monitor mount that's fully adjustable around back here we have our volume control and power button and these are actually powered by a 12 volt 2 amp power supply so we have 24 watts here and this should be sufficient for the cm4 and the built-in screen as for io we have a 3.5 millimeter audio jack we also have usb otg this is a micro usb cable a sim card slot because this does support a 4g module that can be placed in the mini pci express slot that's inside of this unit micro sd card reader gigabit ethernet two usb 2.0 ports a power led indicator our power input and an rs232 relay connector so like i mentioned this is known as the aio cm4101 it's powered by that raspberry pi cm4 so when it comes to wi-fi and bluetooth it really depends on what module you want installed in here raspberry pi foundation offers a ton of different variants you can get them with or without bluetooth and wifi and up to eight gigabytes of ram a 10.1 inch ips touchscreen at 1280x800 with 10 points a touch built-in front-facing microphone optional 4g module 2 watt stereo speakers built-in and the operating voltage of this unit here is 9 volts to 36 i was really hoping it would run on five when i took it out of the box but we still have a very wide input range and these retail for 239 if you want to add that 4g module it's an extra 64. and the base stand is an extra 10. so here it is we got a 10.1 inch touchscreen at 1280x800 not the highest resolution but it still looks great on this form factor we also have those built-in 2 watt stereo speakers and they sound pretty decent for what we're getting here now the operating system that i'm running here is just basically stock raspberry pi os with a few little modifications and their test app built in that way i can test all of the built-in extras on this device here like the built-in buzzer we also have a front-facing microphone built in and it's ready to go just like it sits the cm4 unit that i'm using in this one only has two gigabytes of ram and we don't have built-in wi-fi and bluetooth but it does have 16 gigabytes of emmc storage built in and that's what i'm running the operating system from and i can tell you right now that the whole user experience does feel a lot more snappier than if i was to run it from a micro sd now even though these are meant for industrial or embedded applications it doesn't mean we can't have fun with this little unit we got a nice looking little touch screen here i got minecraft running as you can see um if you want to do some media playback from youtube or even netflix now that we have the ability to do it on the raspberry pi it'll work out just fine now we don't have perfect youtube video playback on the raspberry pi as a lot of us already know but at those lower resolutions it does a great job and with this screen only coming in at 1280x800 running these at 720p still looks really good now one of my main use case scenarios for something like this would be an awesome little emulation rig now i did try to boot up retropie on it but unfortunately i can't get it to work just yet but i will and really all i need to do is dig through their config.txt file they offer with their build of raspberry pi os but what i have now is a standalone version of a gba emulator and as you can see we do have a little bit of screen tearing it's not the screen itself because this is the only emulator i've noticed it in it really comes down to the configuration i'm using with said emulator because when i move over to the standalone version of ppsspp get really good performance no screen tearing here and keep in mind the cm4 that i have inside of this unit isn't even overclocked yet so before we wrap this video up i did kind of want to pull this thing apart and on the back i was looking for some screws but it looks like this is kind of snapped together so i got this little plastic spudger here it looks like it's coming off pretty easily and i'll lightly take the back and the front half apart so i don't break anything looks like we got three cables that need to be unplugged first one being the front microphone next up we have the lcd and the touch panel ribbon and i think that's about it so here's the front half of the unit just got that 10.1 inch lcd here now we can take a look at this so on their website it says it only has a single speaker but there are dual stereo speakers in here both of them are working we also have our volume and power control board plus we have this antenna for the wi-fi and bluetooth built into the cm4 i'm gonna go ahead and remove this custom pcb it looks like it's just held in here with four screws and once i have those out i'll go ahead and unplug the speakers and we'll carefully turn this over and our cm4 should be on this side there it is so we have our cm4 unit right on this custom pcb let me go ahead and get this wi-fi and bluetooth antenna unplugged this is just mounted to the back half of the case and yeah this looks really nice um i don't see any extra connectors except for that mini pcie slot which will support that 4g module that i mentioned at the beginning of the video you can mount it right here and maybe down the road i could test a pcie ssd in this unit but i do have on-board storage with this cm4 module this is the four gigabyte model with wi-fi bluetooth and 16 gigabytes of emmc storage i'm gonna go ahead and remove the module and we'll just take a look under it i don't think there's anything extra except for the connectors and here's a closer look so i've just removed that cm4 module and this will support any of the cm4 modules that the raspberry pi foundation offers and they offer a ton of different configurations so yeah this thing's definitely put together very well i would personally like to test out one of those 4g modules i'll see if i can get my hands on one but in the meantime i'm actually going to see if i can add an ssd to this slot here because i do have an extra one laying around not sure if it's going to work out and i really don't want to burn anything up but i think it would be worth a shot it would be really nice to add some faster storage to this unit even though i'm working with that 16 gigabyte emmc and we also have that micro sd card slot it would be nice to run my operating system from an ssd in this thing so overall i'm definitely enjoying these little systems the built-in touch screen does function quite well it's only 1280x800 but it still looks good on a 10.1 inch screen and touch functionality is dead on with this thing when it comes to raspberry pi os it was never really meant to be a touch operating system so i would recommend adding something like a keyboard and a mouse but there are tons and tons of different projects that you could do with something like this you could build a little mini weather station you can build a kodi media center you could build an emulation setup you could use something like this for in-store signage i mean the possibilities are really endless because after all this does have a raspberry pi inside of it but there's one thing missing from this that i would have loved to see and that's a built-in battery these aren't meant to be portable they're meant to be stationary that's why they have that vase amount but i will be adding a battery to the white version to make it fully portable now i am running into one issue these actually run anywhere from 9 volts to 36 volts and all of the little battery packs that i have that i usually use for my raspberry pi's and cm4s are 5 volts so i need to find a solution to this and when it comes to qualcomm quick charge if you have it plugged into something like this that doesn't support it it's not going to go up to that 9 to 12 volts so i'm only outputting 5 volts no matter what i do with these little battery packs but i will find a way around this and it'll probably come down to using a buck converter or some 18650 cells but i would like to keep this as compact as possible because it would be pretty awesome to have a little all-in-one battery-powered raspberry pi with a 10.1 inch screen like this so yeah that's gonna wrap it up for this video that was the first look at this little chipsy unit personally big fan of it got a project planned for the white version that i have here hopefully i can get that done in the next few days i've already ordered some parts to get this ready so keep an eye on the channel if you're interested in seeing that if you want to learn more about this i will leave links to gypsy's website in the description if you have any questions let me know in the comments below and like always thanks for watching you\n"