Pi case reviews

A good review of Pi cases would probably be interesting material for the Element 14 Raspberry Pi Blog .  Once you're happy with the article on your website, perhaps you'd like to like to write up some version of it for our blog here too?

The case I'm most waiting to appear in the UK is the Adafruit one , as I'm a big fan of transparent cases for boards that have LEDs and interfacing headers.  The main reference for Pi cases is on the wiki of course -- http://elinux.org/RPi_Cases , which doesn't yet include the acrylic Adafruit one.

Good luck with your reviews!

Morgaine.

Yep, I was going to share it here - just realised there's a blog!

The only place I'm not going to re-produce it is on the Foundation's website.

Did make me laugh today when they featured the Pibow on the front page and then proceeded to spend half the (long) article vehemently saying that it was in _no_ way officially supported by the Foundation. Glad to see that all those pictures weren't promoting or supporting it in any way... Hmmm....

I'm currently using an "open frame" non-case which holds my RasPi vertically and allows free air flow on both sides of the board, keeping her LAN and SoC chips from getting hot.  I hate to think how hot they'd get closed up inside that pretty little Pibow.  I'm looking forward to seeing photos of Pibows with a lovely rainbow soup of melted plastic around the LAN chip

Hi John.

Do you have a picture of your set-up?

Hi John.

Do you have a picture of your set-up?

Michael Horne wrote:

 

Hi John.

Do you have a picture of your set-up?

Not yet.  I'll put one up in a couple of days and let you know where.

Michael Horne wrote:

 

Hi John.

Do you have a picture of your set-up?

Here's an attempt to show the external and internal views.  It's the first time I've incorporated images, so it may take me a couple of iterations.

Here's the external view of Ethernet and USB connectors, with HDMI on top.  The RCA jack makes a dandy mounting plug:

And here's the internal view:

The face plate was salvaged from an old Rubbermaid garbage can.  It ended up being the perfect size and shape, and easy to work with a power drill and X-acto knife.

OMG, you get a 500-point bonus for using the composite video out as a mounting lug!

The Pi has several nutty design choices that are totally out of keeping with its stated goals and  requirements, and that's one of them.  At last a good use for that stupid RCA connector.

Wow, extra points for being able to drill the hole at the same crooked angle as the RCA jack

You're making me seriously reconsider removing the rca jack by default with that setup.