Simple din rail housing for Pi zero

RE: Simple din rail housing for Pi zero

hwhardsoft — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 07:31:11 GMT

We've changed the board to a full THT design. Furthermore the voltage regulator is stronger now:

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RE: Simple din rail housing for Pi zero

hwhardsoft — Sun, 04 Jun 2017 08:04:26 GMT

now also available with transparent lid in the top shell

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RE: Simple din rail housing for Pi zero

hwhardsoft — Sat, 20 May 2017 13:32:55 GMT

that was exactely the idea behind this enclosure set. You can integrate other ciruits or boards together with a Pi_Zero (W) on a din rail.... Here another example with a Homematic IO-Module for the Homematic wireless automation system (very popular in Germany): The module represents 4 buttons with 2 rockers. IT's easy to control the "rockers" via the GPIOs of the Pi-Zero...

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RE: Simple din rail housing for Pi zero

balearicdynamics — Wed, 17 May 2017 21:29:16 GMT

Interesting the integration of the two boards. In a general view, IMHO, the interesting aspect is that this can be considered also a good prototyping platform. Is possible to provide the rail base supporting the PI-Zero with custom PCB ? I think that an option of this kind opens a lot of possibilities for derived specific products for industrial or home automation.

RE: Simple din rail housing for Pi zero

hwhardsoft — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 19:04:04 GMT

we've tested the integration of Razberry module (enables Z-Wave wireless protocol) in our RasPiBox Zero din rail enclosure for Pi Zero. It's a little bit more tricky but it works.

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RE: Simple din rail housing for Pi zero

hwhardsoft — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 07:46:09 GMT

So far as I know the Pi Zero has only 1 USB host port. The other one is for supply only. You will find an USB-A socket foot print on our pcb. This USB-A connector is directly connected to some pads beside the breadboard. The idea is to solder a cable between these pads and the corresponding testing point of the PiZero. The USB host will be accessabke from the outside. You can stick a WLAN USB stick in it to have access to the Pizero via SSH for example.

The other option is to make the enclosure smaller (2 modules only), to bing the sockets of the PiZero to the right enclosure side. But this solution have some disadvantages:

- the breadboard is much smaller than

- its hard to find a place for the terminals an the voltage regulator in this case

RE: Simple din rail housing for Pi zero

clem57 — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 05:54:49 GMT

Okay, I see your point. But in my case I need to use the newer Pi zero with camera attached in a small enclosure. To solve I need to tap 12 V input down to 5 V for the zero (probably a buck to buck converter). Also it must be weatherproof since it may be in a harsh environment. This enclosure fails on both of those requirements in my case. I suspect others may be considering choices that have a limited budget IMHO.

Clem

RE: Simple din rail housing for Pi zero

hwhardsoft — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 05:36:42 GMT

Hi,

thx for you comments. Sorry, but I can't see a relationship between the price of the PiZero and especially this product. As Enrico explained, this is not a standard case - it's a problem solver, if you want a professional solution for a cabinet. For the customer the price for the complete solution is interesting and this is much more lower (5€ + 15,99€ = 21,99€) as for the Raspberry Pi 3 and one of our enclosure kits for the "normal" Raspberry (38€ Pi3 + 29,99€ Raspibox Open = 67,99€). [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-be543bd3-a70d-429a-9bbf-64707afcabf8/contentimage_5F00_4751.png:16:16]

I think this argumentation (price of PiZero equal to price for the enclosure) is wrong in this applications. We have for example a similar enclosure kit for the Arduino in our shop. Price is the same as for the standard Raspibox Open kits. If you take a Arduino clone for 6-7€ the price of this enclosure is 5 times higher as the Arduino, but we have a lot of orders and requests for this solution...

Cheers

Hartmut

RE: Simple din rail housing for Pi zero

clem57 — Sat, 06 Aug 2016 23:38:37 GMT

Very nice enclosure. But at costing 3 times a zero, this puts it out of range cost wise IMHO.

Clem