Tuesday, 3 March 2015

Rapid Pi Case

I have a Raspberry Pi in my house which is mostly for testing things out for school or workshops. For example when I needed a samba server for a workshop, or a web server with sftp chroots for kids to practice web sites. Anyway, it runs headless powered by a usb cable from the firewall and sits on top of it, next to the router. If I need to prepare something graphical like a Scratch workshop, I connect to a remote desktop using vnc. Until today, it has been inside my lego case; the one I spent about a week making and perfecting. So to bring my lego case back into circulation, I decided a quick replacement was needed. This is what I came up with.

Not like the cases you see on the Internet, but in terms of functionality return for time invested, its a winner. There is an ethernet cable running in one end, and the usb into the other. Five minutes' work. Maybe ten. It took longer to write this post. It even has its IP address handily visible, look.