TARDIS Deluxe New Rear Panel for Raspberry Pi Case by lar3ry

Last crawled date: 3 years, 1 month ago

I wanted to use this as a Raspberry Pi case for a specific purpose, but getting the (many) cables in was a problem. So I redid a side panel to make it easier to run the cables to the Pi. I also wanted a little more room, so I printed the entire project at 140%. I drilled the mounting holes for the Pi by hand, in one of the side panels.
The specific purpose was to mount the Pi in a case that suited the program I was running. It is an Amiga Emulator, and for me, the ability to run and program an Amiga is, in itself, a time machine. Hence the TARDIS, to help take me back to the 80s.
Not content with just having it sit there, I decided to activate it while loading up the emulator. I added two LEDs, a white one for the beacon, and an amber one one for the interior light. I also plugged in a cheap PC speaker for sound.
I then intercepted the Amiga Emulator startup and wrote a program to turn on the interior LED and pulse the beacon. I used a Linux program called aplay to play the TARDIS sound.
countspatula included labels, but since I don't have a label maker, I was stuck with using JPGs, which get a little ragged when scaled up to 140%. So I made my own, using Corel Draw. I printed them on Avery labels (5523/5543 - same as 5163) because the weatherproof labels are much whiter than regular paper or labels. I have uploaded the Corel file.
I have posted a video of it in action on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HkrkMe3UTE
"Tardis_Takeoff is a bash file that plays the Tardis takeoff sound.
"pulse.py is a python program that lights the amber internal LED and flashes the white beacon LED