| Subject: | Re: Reuse of old cases from obsolete electonics for Pi
| | Date: | Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:34:14 +0100
| | From: | Graham. <me@privacy.net>
| | Newsgroups: | comp.sys.raspberry-pi,uk.d-i-y
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On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 21:53:20 +0100, Rob Morley <nospam@ntlworld.com>
wrote:
>On 10 Jun 2013 18:47:05 GMT
>"David.WE.Roberts" <nospam@nospam.net> wrote:
>>
>> As I am about to become a Pi owner I have been looking at different
>> solutions for powering and protecting the board and I had a sudden
>> thought.
>>
>> All these old scrap electronics have a case and a PSU (a DVD player
>> also has a DVD drive, of course).
>>
>> So what are the prospects of throwing away the 'mother board' for one
>> of these pieces of kit and using perhaps the PSU and the DVD drive to
>> power and connect to a Pi?
>>
>One of the nice things about the RPi is its diminutive stature - why
>would you want to put it in a case that's big enough for an ITX PC?
>Stealth cases can be fun projects, but for RPi a VHS cassette is a bit
>on the large side.
He might have a point.
If his project is saleable a 1U 19in rack mount form-factor will
provide more profit than an Adafruit box dangling from the customers
switch by a patch lead.
--
Graham.
%Profound_observation%
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