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The Raspberry Pi 5 is a credit card-sized computer with a 2.4 GHz ARM Cortex-A76 quad-core processor, up to 8GB of LPDDR4x-4267 RAM, support for microSD cards or PCIe NVMe storage (the latter requires an adapter) and full-sized USB and Gigabit Ethernet ports.
It also supports up to two 4K displays thanks to a pair of micro HDMI ports. But if you’d rather have a pair of full-sized HDMI ports, Waveshare’s got a small, cheap adapter designed for just that. The company’s micro HDMI to HDMI Multifunctional Adapter for the Raspberry Pi 5 (and Raspberry Pi 4 Model B) is now available from Waveshare for $6Â or from Amazon for $13.
If you’re wondering why I even bothered mentioning Amazon, where the price tag is over twice as high, it’s because Amazon offers free shipping, while the Waveshare website does not. So the actual price you end up paying may depend on where you live.
There are a few things that are kind of nifty about this little adapter. One is that it’s designed to plug directly into the side of a compatible Raspberry Pi board with no extension cables required. Just plug it into the USB-C and micro HDMI ports on the Raspberry Pi and power, and video will be passed through to the adapter board’s HDMI and USB-C ports.
The other is that once this board is connected, not only will you have a pair of full-sized HDMI ports, but all of the ports on the Raspberry Pi 5 will now be on the same side, which could make cable management a bit less messy.
There are also a two 3-pin UART connectors and a JST connector for an optional battery and the adapter board comes with two cables: a 100mm (3.9 inch) 3-pin cable and a 3-pin “squid” cable.
Waveshare’s adapter board will increase the physical footprint of a Raspberry Pi, but it’s a relatively compact add-on that measures 85 a 34mm (3.4″ x 1.4″).
You can then power the Raspberry Pi by plugging a power source into either the USB-C port on the adapter board or into the green screw terminal.
via CNX Software