I'm almost ashamed to admit I had a Raspberry Pi 400 that went unappreciated for the longest time. My Dad got it for me as a gift, and it was sitting in a box of spare parts for months. Once I finally got to open it up and take a good look at it, I really wanted to do something cool with it. The Pi 400 was great enough by itself, having a built-in keyboard which you would only need to add a monitor to have a complete computer setup. However, I wanted to have an "all-in-one" setup, with even less wires to plug in. And since I was in a "Fallout" kinda mood, having recently watched the TV series and played one of their games, I decided to model this all-in-one casing based off of the terminal featured in the Fallout game series.

The general idea was to build a plastic casing to house all the pieces, and extend the Pi 400's ports with panel mount cables. First things first, I needed a monitor. It took me a while to find a monitor that I liked, but in the end, the one pictured above was what I settled on. However, I realized much too late that the monitor in question turned out to be a 12V monitor, and I was trying to have all the pieces be consistently 5V. I needed to adapt my strategy if I wanted to have a system powered by only one adapter. So, I bought a power adapter that output 12V and 5A, which I would use to power the monitor first, then bring the remaining power down to 5V via a buck converter.