{"id":7761,"date":"2012-08-04T10:18:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T14:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=7761"},"modified":"2012-08-04T10:18:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-04T14:18:40","slug":"pi-sandwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/04\/pi-sandwich\/","title":{"rendered":"Pi Sandwich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I retired the <a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/09\/not-overthinking-raspberry-pi-enclosures-one-bit\/\">cardboard case<\/a> this morning, as I got some proper enclosures:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7762\" title=\"raspberry pi in pi sandwich\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/314fc5c0dd9c11e1a3461231381315e1_7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/314fc5c0dd9c11e1a3461231381315e1_7.jpg 612w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/314fc5c0dd9c11e1a3461231381315e1_7-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/314fc5c0dd9c11e1a3461231381315e1_7-320x320.jpg 320w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/314fc5c0dd9c11e1a3461231381315e1_7-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looks a bit like a little red <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NoHkaFDTiD8\">Orac<\/a>, no?<\/p>\n<p>This case is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.budind.com\/view\/Plastic+Boxes\/Microcomputer+Enclosures\">Bud Industries Pi Sandwich<\/a>. They&#8217;re cheap ($5) but very basic. Comprised of two identical halves, you could (if you weren&#8217;t fussy about having the top off) house two Raspberry Pis in a single case.<\/p>\n<p>The downsides are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The clip retainers aren&#8217;t that tough, and the computer board can pop out under minor torsion. Make sure you&#8217;re supporting the board while you&#8217;re putting in the connectors.<\/li>\n<li>The box is taller than it needs to be. While this is great for giving space for GPIO cables, there&#8217;s a big empty space underneath. I wonder if there&#8217;s enough room to jam in a LiPo battery, a DC charger and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ladyada.net\/make\/mintyboost\/\">Minty Boost<\/a>-like thing to act as a mini-UPS, with the board lying on top?<br \/>\n(This device would of course be called a <em>llow<\/em>, so it would be a Raspberry Pi<em>llow<\/em>. Ahem.)<\/li>\n<li>The really nice flat acryllic box sits so flat on smooth surfaces, it sticks, yet still slides about. Sticky feet would help.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s a case. It stops the Raspberry Pi shorting out or getting too dusty\/things spilled on it. It&#8217;s cheap. It works. I&#8217;m happy with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I retired the cardboard case this morning, as I got some proper enclosures: Looks a bit like a little red Orac, no? This case is a Bud Industries Pi Sandwich. They&#8217;re cheap ($5) but very basic. Comprised of two identical halves, you could (if you weren&#8217;t fussy about having the top off) house two Raspberry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[2510],"class_list":["post-7761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-raspberrypi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-21b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7761"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7765,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7761\/revisions\/7765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}