RaspberryPi - Cooking up a case (Follow-up)

Following on from the case I made a few weeks back, I was able to get some chestnut wood cut to size.

This one was drilled much as before -

• four 6mm holes in the corners for the spacer nuts and feet
• four 4mm holes in the base piece to attached the Pi (this one being a RPi-B).  Although the circuit board is drilled with 3mm holes, the 4mm ones in the base allow a little play to avoid bending the board.
• one 16mm hole in the top for the new switch.

The Pi has no on-off switch, and powering off the GPIO pins is not advised; so I bought a small circuit from mausberry circuits.  This little circuit sits between the power supply and the MicroUSB power input on the Pi.  Two connections to the GPIO allow the power off and reboot all from the same switch.

The switch was one of these from Adafruit. Complete with blue LED light when powered up, this was easy to connect up.

The final working board looks pretty neat, if I may say so myself.