{"id":8550,"date":"2013-01-06T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/01\/06\/move-over-altoids-tins-legos-for-raspberry-pi-case\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T00:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:52:12","slug":"move-over-altoids-tins-legos-for-raspberry-pi-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/01\/06\/move-over-altoids-tins-legos-for-raspberry-pi-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Move over Altoids Tins!  Legos for Raspberry Pi Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/rpi-case.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"162\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/rpi-case.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <b>Too bad the Raspberry Pi board is a bit too big for our beloved Altoids tins. It would have been a very fitting match: British board in a British box. A twelve year-old has solved the problem with Legos: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/2012\/06\/11\/lego-raspberry-pi-enclosure\/\">http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/2012\/06\/11\/lego-raspberry-pi-enclosure\/<\/a><\/b><br \/> <b>Will this lead to raids on the toy boxes of the grandchildren of SolderSmoke fans? <\/b><br \/> <b>Billy&#8217;s RasPi is running nicely (but no Legos for him). <\/b><\/p>\n<p> Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too bad the Raspberry Pi board is a bit too big for our beloved Altoids tins. It would have been a very fitting match: British board in a British box. A twelve year-old has solved the problem with Legos: http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/2012\/06\/11\/lego-raspberry-pi-enclosure\/ Will this lead to raids on the toy boxes of the grandchildren of SolderSmoke fans? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/01\/06\/move-over-altoids-tins-legos-for-raspberry-pi-case\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Move over Altoids Tins!  Legos for Raspberry Pi Case&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,179,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-minimalist-computing","category-raspberry-pi","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8552,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8550\/revisions\/8552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}