No matter what you intend to do with a Raspberry Pi, you will most likely want to spruce it up with a starter kit that was either bundled with the board or sold separately as a purpose-built kit.

A Raspberry Pi 5 4GB was boosted to 8GB RAM via a hardware swap by MadEDoctor on YouTube. Upgrading RAM requires skillful soldering, but it's possible and improves performance. Other mods include ...