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Boxing up Raspi?

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I would like to think that I could make a box to contain the Raspi, but looking at the Safety Information,

it should be operated in a ventilated environment and not covered.

And of course, it would be electricily safe, wouldn't it?

I have seen a report somwhere that a container was made from Lego bricks!

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  • in reply to jamodio

    Tried to post that question (about it being covered) on the RasPi forum, but it got buried.

     

    Unsurprisingly, i've just checked my leaflet and it says the same thing.It also warns against connecting any unapproved devices to the GPIO connectors, I thought that education was part of what this was about ? And if they can point me towards an 'approved' device and i'll happily buy it.

  • in reply to GreenYamo

    I remember seeing some comments about issues with temperature but can't find them now.

     

    I've one of the RasPi up now, not running graphics, just responding to a constant ping over the network

    the board draws about 400mA and the IR gun shows about 115F for the GPU/RAM stack.

     

    Obviously the GPIO header goes straight to the BCM chip without much protection you can do a lot of damage.

     

    I guess that little piece of paper is just sort a "I told you so" and invalidate the warranty.

     

    -J