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It’s probably easier to buy a regular case and then fit the raspberry pi into it.

• hinkley 5y ago
  We should be meeting in the middle and creating SBCs whose bolt holes spacing is identical to some other device standard. For instance 2.5” HDDs, or 3.5-2.5 adapters. Then you can find trays and enclosures and caddies that can be modified slightly to purpose. Expanding holes in sheet metal is easy. Tapping holes, welding captive nuts, and bending are a lot trickier.
  • Ruthalas 5y ago
    This would be excellent. That's a great idea.
  • sokoloff 5y ago
    For something as lightly loaded as a home computer, rivnuts are pretty darn easy and cheap way to add threads to sheet metal. Brass standoffs with a nut on the back are also readily available and cheap.
    • hinkley 5y ago
      Brass standoffs are great but they still require a tapped hole. I was thinking more of moderate scale. I’d totally rivnut one SBC if I had a friend who could show me how. But I’m not doing twenty or small batches for resale. I think there’s a fraction of people in that demographic for whom a rivnut is still fancy tech. I’ve only heard about them from watching Bad Obsession Motorsports (with Rex Hamilton as Abraham Lincoln) and rivnuts are like a running gag argument between the two hosts. Welded captive nuts always win. Every time. I just looked at a rivnut catalog, and couldn’t figure out how to find a nut that would work with standard computer case screws, or in fact what tool and nut combinations worked together. I’m not gonna sort that shit out on my own.