Chips By Lee Mathews May. 6, 2014 4:37 pm
The tiny Raspberry Pi is small enough to cram into all kinds of housing, including plenty of repurposed ones. We’ve already seen one modder convert the retail packaging from a Magic Mouse into a Pi case. Another RasPi fan has just finished off a similar project: cramming a Raspberry Pi into an old audio cassette.
You’ve probably taken apart a cassette tape or two in your day. I know I have, but mostly it was back in high school when it was fun to make a colossal mess out of the spooled tape and string it all over the inside your buddy’s car.
The goal wasn’t to create something that the entire Pi could fit inside. A cassette’s not thick enough to properly package the Pi’s preponderance of protruding ports. What set out to do was to carve out something that offered some protection for the main board.
The first step was to crack open the cassette and saw off all the all the high spots so that the Raspberry Pi had somewhere flat to sit. Once that was done, Michele made cutouts for all the tall connectors. Admittedly, the mod isn’t a perfect one. The cutouts could have been done to fit more snugly around the Pi’s components, but that doesn’t take anything away from Alessandrini’s hack.
It’s a very clever little project, and one that will no doubt inspire another Raspberry Pi fan to do come up with a new and improved version… unless, of course, Michele beats everyone to the punch.
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You’ve probably taken apart a cassette tape or two in your day. I know I have, but mostly it was back in high school when it was fun to make a colossal mess out of the spooled tape and string it all over the inside your buddy’s car.
The goal wasn’t to create something that the entire Pi could fit inside. A cassette’s not thick enough to properly package the Pi’s preponderance of protruding ports. What set out to do was to carve out something that offered some protection for the main board.
The first step was to crack open the cassette and saw off all the all the high spots so that the Raspberry Pi had somewhere flat to sit. Once that was done, Michele made cutouts for all the tall connectors. Admittedly, the mod isn’t a perfect one. The cutouts could have been done to fit more snugly around the Pi’s components, but that doesn’t take anything away from Alessandrini’s hack.
It’s a very clever little project, and one that will no doubt inspire another Raspberry Pi fan to do come up with a new and improved version… unless, of course, Michele beats everyone to the punch.
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