philippe_44 wrote: > With Ralphy building JiveLite for piCorePlayer > http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?103330-Jivelite-for-piCorePlayer&p=811820&viewfull=1#post811820, > I was wondering if some would be interested by a 3D printable enclosure > that would integrate an raspi A+, touchscreen and some extra DAC > optionally. I'm not a good CAD designer, but I can do a bit of design. I > was thinking of only using available raspi accessories as I understand > many do not want to do their own HW and I absolutely do not want to sell > anything custom > > So, question: is there an interest for such a project and would some > people here be willing to help for the CAD work either by doing some of > it or proposing design ideas or do people prefer to put a raspi in an > existing headless enclosure and use a remote UI ?
Hi philippe. I think that would be a great idea. Maybe include some buttons and a rotary button for adjusting sound level? Greg and I have been discussing supporting a display for the piCorePlayer for some time now. But we have been reluctant because there are so many different screens so it would be difficult to support them all. Therefore, we have been following the discussion closely and waiting for the announcement of the official raspberry display: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=64041 https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=104630 http://raspi.tv/2014/raspberry-pi-official-7-inch-dsi-prototype-preview >From what can be read the screen could be announced very soon - but then again the discussion started already in 2013!!! We have more or less decided to wait for this display. The advantage would be; It does not connect via HDMI, so the HDMI port is free for audio-out connection. It will probably be supported very well from the raspberry foundation, so the drivers are available and last but not least we would only have to support the official screen. For your project it probably also will be difficult to make a design that can fit several displays. So you will have to make a choice on which screen you are supporting. Regards Steen piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM. Homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/picoreplayer/home *Please 'donate' (https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=U7JHY5WYHCNRU&lc=GB¤cy_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG%2egif%3aNonHosted) if you like the piCorePlayer* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sbp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37237 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104099 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
