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Pi to Go: Hot Raspberry Pi DIY Mini Desktop PC Project

Posted by timothy on from the tab-a-slot-b-fruit-x dept.

MojoKid writes "Hot Hardware recently set out to design a custom mini desktop system with the popular Raspberry Pi single board computer. People have configured the device for a variety of applications, from micro-servers to low cost media players. Basically, the goal was to turn what is currently one of the cheapest bare-bones computer boards into a fully enclosed mini desktop computer that could be taken anywhere without the need for cabling or setup. This small DIY project is just one of many examples of the flexibility of the Raspberry Pi's open architecture. And to think you can even run Quake and Minecraft on it."

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  1. Pi Madness by maxrate · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This simply isn't newsworthy.

    1. Re:Pi Madness by EmperorOfCanada · · Score: 4, Insightful

      They built a crappy laptop. What many people are missing is that the Raspberry pi is best for two groups of people. Underprivileged kids who will use the Pi as the basis of a scrounged together machine. Or for people needing a fairly decent machine for their embedded project (robot, car computer, etc).

      To simply reinvent the laptop seems like a waste of a Pi.

  2. You're kidding me, right?!?!??! by OzPeter · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Someone puts some electronics in a box and that's newsworthy???

    If so, then I've got a suggestion for you. Just follow me around at work for a week and you'll get enough stories for a year of stories like this.

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    1. Re:You're kidding me, right?!?!??! by toygeek · · Score: 4, Insightful

      And that *deserved* to be noticed. That's a very neat project! Useful, original, and creative. Certainly far more creative than the kludged together "computer" mentioned in TFA.

      Yours demonstrates the complete opposite end of the Raspberry Pi spectrum. Putting a computer where you'd least expect one, which I think is what the Raspberry Pi excels at in at least this aspect.

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  3. To: the critics, by MacTO · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You are perfectly correct: we should discourage people from entering the field of electronics by focussing upon advanced projects. Yes these projects are exciting to read about, but they are impractical for the novice to attempt building. It's impractical because it's too complex to understand, too expensive to botch, and tedious for those who don't have the construction skills. We should also discourage people from entering the field of electronics by instilling the mentality that it ain't worth trying if it ain't new, thus ensuring that any project is out of reach of the novice.

    After all, we wouldn't want to encourage people to get into electronics by pointing to articles about stuff that they can actually try doing.