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Using a laptop optical drive slot to house a dedicated RasPi sub-processor

cruz53

Hi Ben,

     I use my Raspberry Pi via my laptop quite frequently for software development and it is always awkward having to connect to it externally via serial or a crossover cable. I also have a CDROM that goes entirely unused. I was thinking it would be awesome to make a raspberry pi case that could fit inside that CDROM slot and be wired internally. Ultimately the perfect install would be one where the Enet ports of both the laptop and the RasPi are free and the RasPi I/O is still accessible. (possibly it could be pulled out in the same fashion as the CDROM?)

 

Thanks Ben I know it's possible, please show me the way!

Jim

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  • most laptops don't have that much space where the optical drive is to put a Raspberry Pi there. As Clem Martins suggested maybe use the Pi compute, I repair computers and usually the optical drive on a laptop is usually a slim line version and keeping the Ethernet and full size usb's would not fit. take the Ethernet and full size usbs off then you will need to beef up the cooling for the Pi. One thing is powering the pi might be a problem, You need 5 Volt Micro-USB power supply with at least 1.8 Amp output none of the laptops usbs provide that much power. They provide 2.5 volts. so you will need a power cord coming out.

     

    Now after all that modding, testing, fixing found problems, testing again and there is still a good chance this wouldn't work, how is that easier than just putting the pi in a case and set it beside the laptop?

  • in reply to william_hoffer

    Wow you guys sure are negative.  My laptop is a full size 17inch with 32bit arch. And several legacy ports I use for plc programing. Im certainly not talking about doing this in a macbook air lol

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