Friday, July 6, 2012

Custom Raspberry Pi Case Harkens Back To '80s-Era Computing

The low-cost Raspberry Pi micro-computer was combined to give kids an focus growth stage that could be hacked with desert - thus saving Mom and Dad the suspense of a completely borked home PC. The Pi's creators hope that their medium growth appurtenance will rekindle the DIY suggestion that was rampant amid nerds in the 1980s.

Super-modder Ben Heck took that nostalgia-fueled idea, and went a step serve by formulating a Raspberry Pi box that resembles an iconic P.C. from the War Games era. Built to resemble the BBC Micro P.C. , the box has a full keyboard, I/O ports and even something that the Raspberry Pi lacks - a power switch.

Marketed as an informative tool, the BBC Micro P.C. was built by Acorn in the early 1980s, and branded by the British Broadcasting Corporation. The BBC Micro enclosed a capsule container that could be used to actions informative experiments (as seen in the print above). Heck updated a capsule container to the Raspberry Pi mod so experimenter play could be extrinsic in to the minuscule computer.

And if that wasn't old-school enough, Heck built his set of keys box out of timber and updated hinges so that the set of keys could be flipped up similar to a college table - best for storing cartridges, SD cards, and multi-tools is to young modder in training. Check out the video next for a ambience of the mod.

The whole Raspberry Pi part of The Ben Heck Show will be existing on Monday, July 9.

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