Travis Brown has taken an old Gameboy and squeezed inside a stripped-down Raspberry Pi, a composite screen, a battery and several smaller components and created a beautiful retro gaming device. His full account of the build including loads of photographs…
Category: Cases
Designing and making an injection-moulded case for the #RaspberryPi
Here’s a nice piece over on the Adafruit site about the design and manufacture of their popular Pi case. They cover initial design, prototype printing and finally the creation of the injection mould to produce the product. As the son…
New British #RaspberryPi case and robotics solution on Kickstarter
The Little British Robot Company and Kre8 have teamed up to bring to market a construction-grade cardboard case system and robotics kit. They’re currently running a Kickstarter campaign to judge the size of the market and to raise funds for…
New extremely hard-wearing industrial-strength case for the #RaspberryPi
Horsham-based company Lincoln Binns create enclosures… but these enclosures will stand up to a ridiculous amount of punishment. They make them out of aluminium and they’ve now created one for the Pi (pictured). Starting at around £22+VAT (with greater quantities…
Top 5 cases for the #RaspberryPi – a different look
Recently, Life Hacker published a competition to determine the best 5 cases for the Raspberry Pi. Now, obviously I’m just one person, but looking at their list I don’t think they’ve got all the best ones. So, instead I thought…
Review of acrylic case for the #RaspberryPi
I was contacted by Mohammed Ikram about something else and he mentioned that he ran an eBay Pi shop. He’s sent me a few things for review. I will, however, be as honest as usual when reviewing the items. The…
National Museum of Computing features #RaspberryPi / FUZE
Just been contacted by the FUZE team with a press release (it’s the first time I’ve been sent a press release!) so I thought I’d share the news. The National Museum of Computing lights the FUZE at Bletchley ParkThe National…
Great review of the FUZE – #RaspberryPi in a keyboard case
Drew Buddie is head of computing at the Royal Masonic School for Girls in Hertfordshire, UK. He’s been loaned a FUZE – the black-and-red keyboard/case for the Raspberry Pi. As I’ve previously said, I’ve got a lot of time for…
ZX-Pi – a Pi inside a Sinclair ZX-81
Tony Smith previously worked out how to use an Arduino Leonardo to connect a ZX81 keyboard to the Pi. He’s now gone a step further and actually managed to get the Pi inside the ZX-81. Brilliant stuff. Read more here
#RaspberryPi inside a Gameboy console
This isn’t the first time this has been done, but it’s certainly the most complete solution I’ve seen. Anton MacArthur has taken an old Gameboy handheld console, a 3″ LCD screen and a USB SNES controller and done some hackery…