Raspberry Pi case recommendations

I've just bought what I think you're referring to for, as you say, less than £3. Searching on ebay for "raspberry pi case piworks" brings it up.

Good spot.

Another Dave

I bought a transparent case from CPC. It was about £5. Does the job.

IIRC it was like this:

RS/Allied is shipping them in plastic boxes that can be cut and used as cases (although they reccomend against it) it's a pity about the colour.

paint them inside. any color you want.

The Natural Philosopher wrote

Then you cant see the LED lights!

Mine is more a cabinet than a case - routed out of a block of mahogany

I had to mount a prism on the perspex top in order to see the indicator LEDs

There's a handy place for the backup SD card inside.

On Tue, 07 May 2013 18:25:21 +0100, John Rickman Iyonix declaimed the following in comp.sys.raspberry-pi:

That's what masking tape is for... Or if you have an artist supply nearby, airbrush frisket (film or brush-on liquid; take a paper punch, knock out a few disks of frisket film, apply them, paint, remove frisket)

hmm, you'd get a kind of milky candy-apple effect. It's Polypropylene so it'll need a special paint,

They made the red one far too bright. It spoils the whole aesthetic.

On 8 May 2013 10:53:55 GMT, Jasen Betts declaimed the following in comp.sys.raspberry-pi:

Would the paint used for radio control car bodies do? Those tend to be Lexan.

dunno, ask the paint maker. Polycarbonate (such as lexan) is harder and doesn't feel greasy like PP.

The ones I've bought have come from SB Components on Amazon; here's a typical one.

They're available in a variety of colours and seem to get the job done.