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RPi Cases!

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Former Member over 13 years ago

Hi!

 

More questions to see what everyone else is planning!

 

CASES?!?!?!

 

As most people will have spent quite some time wondering about how they are going to enclose their nice new RPi, I was curious what ideas other people had come up with!

 

My plan-

     One of the Ice-Blue (or IR Red) 2 part project enclosures (get too see that nice lil POP tower) with the RPi mounted on the bottom

     USB hub stripped down and mounted on the top. (to one side, deep sockets being for permanently attached devices- WiFi / USB Key / Bluetooth / Wireless Keyboard & Mouse, shallow ones for 

     Sides of enclosure drilled and filed down to give access to the connector sockets.

     Power from mains to USB adaptor, with power adapter spliced in to give power to both USB hub and RPi (alternate idea with power going into hub, then out to RPi to keep connections to a minima)

     Some sort of mount to a VESA plate on the back of the TV (Torn between magnets, and some sort of slide to lock and attach)

 

Hopefully the end result will provide good protection, look good, be easy to attach and remove from a VESA mount, have minimum connections to hook up (ideally just power and HDMI with everything else being semi-included in the packaging) and be easy to add functionality too at a later stage.

 

Only puzzle I've got at the moment is how best to mount something without mounting holes!

 

What are other peoples ideas for cases?

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    dajobe over 13 years ago

    Personally I'll be using a cigarette packet - it's the perfect size (1mm clearance each way with my brand), and I've got one prepared with holes cut for all the ports.

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    dajobe over 13 years ago

    Personally I'll be using a cigarette packet - it's the perfect size (1mm clearance each way with my brand), and I've got one prepared with holes cut for all the ports.

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