Single-board computers have never been more popular than they are these days, and the Raspberry Pi is perhaps the most favoured flavour of them all. With the launch of the new 500+, Raspberry is hoping to attract even more computing hobbyists to the fray, though what one modder has managed to achieve already suggests that its appeal could be even bigger than expected.
The Raspberry Pi 500+ is a fairly decent update on the previous Pi 500, changing the basic keyboard for an RGB-toting mechanical setup, doubling the system RAM from eight to 16 GB of LPDDR4x, and fitting an NVMe M.2 slot to the Pi 5's circuit board. This last aspect is the point of note here, because of what software engineer and modder Jeff Geerling chose to do with it.
