Best Accessories Guide for Raspberry Pi 4
Raspberry Pi 4 is now on sale at Seeed Studio, starting at $35. Raspberry Pi 4 is a comprehensive upgrade compared to Pi 3, you need to additional new accessories to run Raspberry Pi 4 if you would like to quickly get started with it.
There are a wider variety of projects the Pi 4 can do when combined with the right accessories. We prepared this guide of accessories for Raspberry Pi 4 to help you choose accessories for different needs.
You need below accessories to assemble a basic Raspberry Pi 4 starter kit:
- micro SD Card with Card Reader-32GB(Class 10)
- Raspberry Pi Official Power Supply 15.3W USB-C with 1.5M Cable – US Plug 5.1V 3A Black
- The official Raspberry Pi case for Raspberry Pi 4
- Micro HDMI to HDMI Adapter
- Raspberry Pi 4 Official micro HDMI to Standard HDMI Male Cable
- Aluminum Heatsink Kit for Raspberry Pi
Other Cables & Adapters
More add-ons
The Best Cooling Fan for Raspberry Pi
ICE Tower CPU Cooling Fan for Raspberry Pi (Support Pi 4) $19.9
Meet this super ICE Tower CPU Cooling Fan for Raspberry Pi! Tower structure, 5mm copper tube, multi-layer heat sinks, 7 blades powerful fan, all the above combinations make this super radiator for Raspberry Pi. In the case of overclocking, it can reduce the temperature of the Raspberry Pi from 80℃ to 40℃. What amazing! Best of all, this cooling fan supports the new Raspberry Pi 4 Model B.
We also released the RGB version of ICE Tower Cooling Fan: The Blink Blink Ice Tower Cooling Fan. Same price but much more cool!
Also we got the case for ICE tower cooler and the RGB version ICE tower cooler. And we released three versions to help you choose.
This 5-layer acrylic case is made of acrylic material and it is compatible with ICE tower cooler.
It contains a 4010 fan and aluminum heat sinks for Raspberry Pi 4B. It has several different versions.
Mini USB Microphone compatible with Raspberry Pi 4 ($4.9)
This is a very small USB microphone with plug-and-play features, which means you can use it on any computer and SBC.
We created a tutorial for it on the Raspberry Pi 4B . This tutorial tells us that how to use the Mini USB Microphone on the raspberry pi, of course, it can also be used on other computer devices, if you want to record better sound, You can record closer to the audio source to get better results.
Camera
The Raspberry Pi Camera Module v2 is a high quality 8 megapixel Sony IMX219 image sensor custom designed add-on board for Raspberry Pi, featuring a fixed focus lens.
Keyboard
Raspberry Pi Official Keyboard US
Speed will be much faster by adding an additional $74.99 for the Coral USB Accelerator to Pi 4 .
However probably the biggest takeaway for those wishing to use the new Raspberry Pi 4 for inferencing is the performance gains seen with the Coral USB Accelerator. The addition of USB 3.0 to the Raspberry Pi 4 means we see an approximate ×3 increase in inferencing speed over our original results.
Adding an additional $74.99 for the Coral USB Accelerator to the price of the Raspberry Pi means that you can outperform the previous ‘best in class’ board for a cost of $109.99.
Benchmarking Machine Learning on the New Raspberry Pi 4, Model B, Alasdair Allan
Mini Wireless Keyboard and Touchpad Mouse – Rechargeable
This wireless mini keyboard from iPazzPort comes with a touchpad mouse and a tiny USB that it is stored in its back. Simply plug it in to your Pi 4 and you are good to go!
Raspberry Pi 4 HAT
The PoE HAT allows you to power your Raspberry Pi using Power over Ethernet–enabled networks; for this product to be used, the network it is connected to needs to have power-sourcing equipment installed.
Grove Base HAT for Raspberry Pi
Grove Base HAT for Raspberry Pi Zero
The Grove Base Hat for Raspberry Pi Zero provides Digital/Analog/I2C/PWM/UART port to meet all your needs. With the help of build-in MCU, a 12-bit 6 channel ADC is also available for Raspberry Pi.
This product is fully compatible with Raspberry Pi 4 (1GB, 2GB,4GB)
Currently, more than 60 groves have supported the Grove Base Hat for Raspberry Pi . In addition, we will continue to add new compatible modules to the compatible list, the more you use, the more grove will be added.
We will keep updating about the Raspberry Pi 4, check our previous post to help you explore the world of Pi 4:
- Best 11 Raspberry Pi 4 Cases Selection
- Compare Raspberry Pi 4 Heatsink and Cooling Fan
- How to use mini USB Microphone on Raspberry Pi 4
- Installing ROS Melodic on Raspberry Pi 4 and RPLIDAR A1M8
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