lyberty5
Well-Known Member
A small cosmetic mod, not in the rasp pi thread because there's not much modding going into it.
It's a small case made to look like the European Snes, the smalles possible, to accomodate a pi 0 and a usb Hub. It's sporting retropie and it looks capable to run a few snes games smoothly (at 480p).
Some glory shots :
Nothing much going on, but if someone's interested, here's a quick rundown of the worklog :
Made a plastic box made to size to be the actual case. Then molded the clay poorly on top of that. Took it off when dry, and epoxyied it back on.
Proceeded to try and make it look a bit less 'handmade' (or childlike) with some thourough sanding and knife usage.
Also used a lot of bondo to fix various mistakes.
Superglued in some screw posts (gamecube case) + Epoxy again.
Few coats of paint to rigidify the very porous surface of the clay and continue smoothing it up. Sanded and painted a few times.
Cut Usb holes also (a bit late to be honest) and the holes to fit in the SD card and HDMI port
Some final pics of the insides : the pi zero is the lowest value for length and is what limits the size of the build.
The usb hub is a flaxty 5€ hub from amazon built for tablets. It does the job but if I had to remake this I'd use an anker one or something else more sturdy. It looks like it's going to break in a week...
Noting much as of soldering. The Hub's 5V intake and the pi's are solderded as one in derivation. And the DP and DM lines are soldered from the convenient pads on the bottom of the pi. Thank you pi dev team ^^
I had trouble running the system with only 1 Amp, the Xbox controller would always disconnect. 2 Amps seems like it's enough.
The keen eye will have noticed the lack of heatsink and airholes. To be honest, it gets quite hot... Quite an overlook on this part. An easy fix would be to drill holes in the ridges on the back of the case with a 1 mm dremel bit.
Hope you enjoy this guys
It's a small case made to look like the European Snes, the smalles possible, to accomodate a pi 0 and a usb Hub. It's sporting retropie and it looks capable to run a few snes games smoothly (at 480p).
Some glory shots :
Nothing much going on, but if someone's interested, here's a quick rundown of the worklog :
Made a plastic box made to size to be the actual case. Then molded the clay poorly on top of that. Took it off when dry, and epoxyied it back on.
Proceeded to try and make it look a bit less 'handmade' (or childlike) with some thourough sanding and knife usage.
Also used a lot of bondo to fix various mistakes.
Superglued in some screw posts (gamecube case) + Epoxy again.
Few coats of paint to rigidify the very porous surface of the clay and continue smoothing it up. Sanded and painted a few times.
Cut Usb holes also (a bit late to be honest) and the holes to fit in the SD card and HDMI port
Some final pics of the insides : the pi zero is the lowest value for length and is what limits the size of the build.
The usb hub is a flaxty 5€ hub from amazon built for tablets. It does the job but if I had to remake this I'd use an anker one or something else more sturdy. It looks like it's going to break in a week...
Noting much as of soldering. The Hub's 5V intake and the pi's are solderded as one in derivation. And the DP and DM lines are soldered from the convenient pads on the bottom of the pi. Thank you pi dev team ^^
I had trouble running the system with only 1 Amp, the Xbox controller would always disconnect. 2 Amps seems like it's enough.
The keen eye will have noticed the lack of heatsink and airholes. To be honest, it gets quite hot... Quite an overlook on this part. An easy fix would be to drill holes in the ridges on the back of the case with a 1 mm dremel bit.
Hope you enjoy this guys
