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This laptop has been something that I have worked on for over a year, and during that year I went through a lot of different designs and prototypes, as you can see in the pictures above. My first two designs were rather top-heavy, and both hingeing mechanisms were inadequate for the weight of the screen/motherboard combo.

V1.0 (Black) My first version of the Pi-Micro was made on May 6, 2017. It used 3D Printed hinges, which were too loose, and didn't allow the screen to stand on its own. It had a design in which the keyboard was built into the case, which I like, but it was very thick and bulky. The edges on the top and bottom of the case were also not rounded, which gave it a cheap look.

V2.0 (Blue) My second version of the Pi-Micro was made around October 2017. I tried to fix the hingeing problems by using super small brass hinges, but they were also too loose. In this version, I made it look much nicer by rounding all of the edges, and by making the cutouts for the Raspberry Pi in the 3D modeling program instead of with my soldering iron. One unique thing about this version was that I made it so that the keyboard, which I attached the hinges to, could easily be detached from the top half. However, I ended up disliking how it looked, and thought that it did not look enough like a laptop.