You can add old-school cartridges to this Raspberry Pi mod. Photo: Ben Heck
The low-cost Raspberry Pi micro-computer was created to give kids an application development platform that could be hacked with abandon — thus saving Mom and Dad the heartache of a thoroughly borked home PC. The Pi’s creators hope that their modest development machine will rekindle the DIY spirit that was prevalent among nerds in the 1980s.
Super-modder Ben Heck took that nostalgia-fueled idea, and went one step further by creating a Raspberry Pi case that resembles an iconic computer from the War Games era. Built to resemble the BBC Micro computer, the case has a full keyboard, I/O ports and even something that the Raspberry Pi lacks — a power switch.
An educational experimentation kit also teams up with Raspberry Pi. Photo: Ben Heck
Marketed as an educational tool, the BBC Micro computer was built by Acorn in the early 1980s, and branded by the British Broadcasting Corporation. The BBC Micro included a cartridge slot that could be used to conduct educational experiments (as seen in the photo above). Heck added a cartridge slot to the Raspberry Pi mod so experimenter boards could be inserted into the tiny computer.
And if that wasn’t old-school enough, Heck built his keyboard case out of wood and added hinges so that the keyboard could be flipped up like a school desk — perfect for storing cartridges, SD cards, and multi-tools for the young modder in training. Check out the video below for a taste of the mod.
The entire Raspberry Pi episode of The Ben Heck Show will be available on Friday, July 6 on element14.
Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/07/custom-80s_raspberry-pi-case/
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