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Welcome fellow Raspberry Pi nerds - and apologies in advance to the Raspberry Pi Foundation for stealing their thunder on Pi Day!
I am thrilled - no, honored - to introduce the next evolution in single-board computing: the Raspberry Pi 50000.
Many of you are aware of the Raspberry Pi 500, the groundbreaking device that was literally just a keyboard (well, and the equivalent internals of a Raspberry Pi 5).
While I don't know if the Raspberry Pi Foundation heard your feedback after the release of the 500, I certainly did.
You want to go smaller. You want to be less productive.
So, I dove into my lab and took a long, hard look at what computing really means and I made a bold decision. A decision that will redefine innovation. You want...a mouse.
I give you the Raspberry Pi 50000:
Yes. Just. A. Mouse.
It's 2025. Keyboards and monitors are barely used anymore. Remember when Apple dropped the headphone jack from the iPhone? This is like that, but even...more.
How do you use it? I assume you'll figure it out. Just like you figured out that the Raspberry Pi 500 was not, in fact, a standalone computer. You adapt. You evolve. I innovate.
What's Inside the 50000?
Prying open the "case" of the Raspberry Pi 50000, we can see the internals include a Raspberry Pi Pico (literally).
Now, and this is where we really blow your socks off, also inside this perfectly normal, borderline disposable mouse...is a Blues Notecard for cellular data access.
Yes, cellular. Because in 2025, why would you need a screen or a keyboard or even a basic computer when you can have a mouse that has full 4G LTE connectivity?
That's right, folks, you can now click your way to the future, no matter where you are. Need to record the number of clicks on your mouse? Maybe send the temperature inside your mouse to the cloud? Boom. Done.
And let's talk specs. It's a mouse. It clicks. It scrolls. But deep inside this unassuming husk, there's that tiny cellular system-on-module that's actually useful.
So How Does the Raspberry Pi 50000 Work?
Now you might be asking: "How do I use it?"
To which I say: "Why are you looking at me?"
However, to get started with that little cellular system-on-module known as the Blues Notecard and your Raspberry Pi, STM32, ESP32, or whatever host you're using, check out the Blues Developer Center for quickstarts, guides, and example apps.
In the meantime, if the Raspberry Pi 50000 is something you're actually interested in...well, best of luck to you in all your future endeavors.
Yes this is satire...yes I work for Blues...and yes I just wrote this for fun...I mean come on people did I really just need to write that? 😅
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