The Official RaspberryPi Thread

[Fudzy]

Thought we should start one in the vein of other hardware threads like Galaxy S3 etc.

Been thinking about case ideas so I Googled Raspberry Pi DIY case and came across this gem:

http://discpi.vkspartak.sk/

[aka.Goliath]

Thought we should start one in the vein of other hardware threads like Galaxy S3 etc.

Been thinking about case ideas so I Googled Raspberry Pi DIY case and came across this gem:

http://discpi.vkspartak.sk/

Aahh that is brilliant, I'm waiting for mine to arrive next week. Now just to go get all the nuts and bolts.
How to you think they made the little feet for under the PC board?

[Bukshi]

Aahh that is brilliant, I'm waiting for mine to arrive next week. Now just to go get all the nuts and bolts.
How to you think they made the little feet for under the PC board?

I'm glad you like my case I made them out of a CD case cover like this one:



Just cut the L-shaped plastic bits with a box cutter and glued them to the base

[Fudzy]

I'm glad you like my case I made them out of a CD case cover like this one:



Just cut the L-shaped plastic bits with a box cutter and glued them to the base

Thanks Bushki, and welcome to MyBroaband.co.za Did you just eyeball (guess) the placement of those little L-shaped plastic bits or did you use a stencil of some sort?

[jay-co]

that is such an awesome idea for a case. that gave me a couple of ideas as well.

now if mine would only arrive

[ghoti]

I purchased my case from here https://www.modmypi.com/shop/raspber...-pi-case-white Purchased it about a week ago, so still another week until they deliver

[Bukshi]

Did you just eyeball (guess) the placement of those little L-shaped plastic bits or did you use a stencil of some sort?

The underside of the Pi board is quite crowded on the edges with soldered items so there isn't too many places where you can put the supporting bits if you don't want to interfere with the parts on the board. First I drilled the holes for the screws and placed the screws in place so I could arrange the board between them to have access to all the connectors. Then while keeping the board in place I started looking for places where to put the bits and just started to glue them on one after another. This way the board fits in between the bits precisely and it holds the board in place so you can plug/unplug peripherals easily without the need to disassemble the case

As I think afterwards it would be probably better to first glue the bits on and drill afterwards

[Bukshi]

that is such an awesome idea for a case.

Thanks I'm sure you'll too come up with some great ideas.

The Pi board is just an awesome piece of hardware

[jay-co]

came up with an awesome idea.

now just to source a nice thick piecie of clear perspex.

[Nerfherder]

This is the case that I made.

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/album.php?albumid=1901

It looks a lot less rough than is really is, I took an old case for a door bell chime and hacked at it with box cutters and a leather man.
Took about an hour and almost cost me a finger but was just essentially something to protect the board until I get a better case.

My main issue us that the board slides round inside, I need to create internal supports to keep it in place.

I also need to add some kind of power switch !

[Fudzy]

This is the case that I made.

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/album.php?albumid=1901

It looks a lot less rough than is really is, I took an old case for a door bell chime and hacked at it with box cutters and a leather man.
Took about an hour and almost cost me a finger but was just essentially something to protect the board until I get a better case.

My main issue us that the board slides round inside, I need to create internal supports to keep it in place.

I also need to add some kind of power switch !

Nice! What would you put the switch on? The USB cord or before that?

[Fudzy]

Are the images on the raspberry site the only ones out there?

[cavedog]

I just ordered the case on the raspberry pi when I ordered my pi. They have 3 cases now. satin black, white and clear plastic case. I took the clear case cause it looks cool.

Now the long wait I think.

[Fudzy]

http://www.bitbarn.co.uk/thepishop/gpio.htm

If I can build a robot using the GPIO boards then I should be able to use this for home automation? You could have a second one running as a fail-safe.

[iAmThePope]

Omg I wanna get one so bad now after reading through all the threads and watching some vids