Pseudonymous maker “fantasticmrdavid,” hereafter merely “David,” has turned a Raspberry Pi right into a miniature facsimile of a classic desktop PC — full with working monitor and the flexibility to play traditional video games by means of the DOSBox emulator.
“[This is] a retro desktop PC model case I designed and 3D printed based mostly on an previous 286 PC I grew up with,” David explains of the challenge. “eSun Bone White PLA was the closest I may obtainable in Australia that was an in depth color match, however [I’m] completely open to ideas if somebody has one thing higher; I actually needed the PrintedSolid stuff however they will not ship right here.”
The three-part major physique of the machine, full with a entrance panel which features a sadly non-functional scale mannequin of a 5.25″ floppy drive, homes a Raspberry Pi 4 Mannequin B single-board pc and an inexpensive sound module with inside speaker.
Atop that is the monitor, which is constructed round a 3.5″ HDMI-connected full-color LCD in a housing designed to seem like a traditional CRT show. “I additionally tried out a 2.8″ LCD,” David provides, “and whereas I acquired it working, discovered the DOS immediate unreadable at that measurement.”
The Raspberry Pi is configured as well a replica of Debian “Bullseye” Linux, which exhibits a faked Energy-On Self Take a look at (POST) display screen earlier than loading the DOSBox emulator — able to play video games like Id Software program’s traditional first-person shooter Wolfenstein 3D or do some productiveness work in Microsoft’s Home windows 3.1.
The case and monitor are totally 3D-printable, and the remainder of the {hardware} simply sourced. (📷: fantasticmrdavid)
“it was an excellent enjoyable challenge,” David writes. “[I] can verify it additionally works for a [Raspberry] Pi Zero 2 W, however I’ve but to discover a keyboard and mouse combo that works with the Zero (or at the least the USB hubs I’ve tried to this point).”
Extra data is obtainable in David’s Reddit thread, whereas directions and the 3D print recordsdata have been printed to Printables beneath the Artistic Commons Attribution 4.0 Worldwide license.
