Retro Case Skins for the Most Popular Pi Cases
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I've been drawing a few pictures of systems sized to fit on an official raspberry pi case, now I have 15 of them and thought I'd share. Thanks to all the positive feedback and requests for different skins I have now doubled the number of skins I drew. There are now 31 skins and each skin now comes in three different case designs so I obviously can't post previews of them all here. What I've done is made a single image with all the new ones on. I hope you like them but I'd appreciate constructive feedback even if you don't!
Here is a link to Red Bubble where you can get them. rb.choccyhobnob.com
EDIT: Updated Image to the complete collection.
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@ChoccyHobNob holy cow, these are awesome!
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@mattrixk Thanks!
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Such a great idea.
Edit: I honestly don't know which one to get. I've narrowed it down to either the Atari 2600 or possibly the Commodore 64. I'll probably go with the 2600, as that faux wood grain is both beautiful and hilarious at the same time.
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Best thing I've seen today
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@ChoccyHobNob shame I don't have an official case. I have this one.
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@mattrixk I ordered one of those today, I was going to make them for that one too, it seems really popular. I'll post here when there are skins for that case too.
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@mediamogul Drawing wood in a vector art app is hard LOL
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Drawing wood in a vector art app is hard LOL
Well, it looks fantastic. I currently have the case you guys are talking about and I love it. However, In this instance, I think I actually prefer the official Raspberry Pi case. With the artwork applied to that rounded top, it really brings out the type of stylistically deformed, yet adorable appearance that has become so popular over the past several years with collectable items such as the Funko line of figures. That being said, I think it's smart to offer up alternatives to suit other popular case types. I really hope you do well with these.
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Really nice!
But for some reason the ZX Spectrum one isn't available on Red Bubble?
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@GtBFilms said in I've made a thing. Case Skins for the Official Raspberry Pi Case:
Really nice!
But for some reason the ZX Spectrum one isn't available on Red Bubble?
Doh! It is now
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@ChoccyHobNob said in I've made a thing. Case Skins for the Official Raspberry Pi Case:
@mattrixk I ordered one of those today, I was going to make them for that one too, it seems really popular. I'll post here when there are skins for that case too.
I too have this case-it seems to scratch so easily, so would be great to have an option to be able to cover it in the future. Any chance you'd consider just doing plain colours for that one? I don't know why, but I have a thing about black and orange: would be cool to have an orange outer with the black innards, matches my heatsink and wiring!
Love the work though-I'm a Graphic Designer by trade, so appreciate how difficult it is to put things like this together!
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@ChoccyHobNob said in I've made a thing. Case Skins for the Official Raspberry Pi Case:
@mattrixk I ordered one of those today, I was going to make them for that one too, it seems really popular. I'll post here when there are skins for that case too.
I'd love to see them. I'm curious what you'd do with the cut-out logo on top. Would you cover it up, or just sort of design around it? It's probably the only real airflow my Pi gets, so it's probably not a great idea for me to cover it with anything.
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@mattrixk said in I've made a thing. Case Skins for the Official Raspberry Pi Case:
@ChoccyHobNob said in I've made a thing. Case Skins for the Official Raspberry Pi Case:
@mattrixk I ordered one of those today, I was going to make them for that one too, it seems really popular. I'll post here when there are skins for that case too.
I'd love to see them. I'm curious what you'd do with the cut-out logo on top. Would you cover it up, or just sort of design around it? It's probably the only real airflow my Pi gets, so it's probably not a great idea for me to cover it with anything.
I think I'll probably ignore the cut out and allow the user to decide how much of it if any they want to cut through. It's just a piece of vinyl so an exacto or scissors will cut it with no problems and its peelable/restickable so its easy to do
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@ChoccyHobNob Thanks!
I ordered the Amiga500 one in the end, as I have the white and red case.
Might buy myself a black case just so I can stick your ZX Spectrum wrap on it now though! There's no such thing as too many Raspberry Pi's right?
:-)
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@GtBFilms said in I've made a thing. Case Skins for the Official Raspberry Pi Case:
Might buy myself a black case just so I can stick your ZX Spectrum wrap on it now though! There's no such thing as too many Raspberry Pi's right?
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Right!
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great idea and great work getting it done!
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I will be buying one, (once I figure out which one I like best. I might buy a few and just get more official cases, since I have a bunch of Pis with RetroPie on them. that might be the way to go.
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It's arrived! Thank you very much!
It was most admired at our local retro club last night!
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Can you make this for the flirc case?
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