Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400

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This is so cool! The Raspberry Pi comes alive when you put an SSD boot drive in, it becomes such a joy to use (for me it also offered a bit of a feeling of safety as I had multiple SD cards die on me in my networking Pi). If you compare running APT on an SD card and SSD you’ll never wanna go back.

As for the cable issue, I struggle with that myself, I designed a ‘tablety’ case for my Pi 4 with the 7” touchscreen and a 2.5 enclosure housing an SSD to run OctoPrint for my 3D printer and couldn’t find a better solution. Maybe Adafruit’s ribbon connector modules would’ve worked but I didn’t want to buy them with overseas shipping. I’m attempting to learn electronics to maybe one day be able to make my own boards to more elegantly integrate the Pi with other hardware within the same enclosure.

That project sounds really awesome actually - have any links or write ups on it?

Agreed with the cables. I’m keeping my eye out for some sort of minimal, flat ribbon cable that I could possibly have flush against the side of the casing.

I used to have it up on Thingiverse but I deleted it and wanted to move all my designs to Thangs but it somehow never happened. So I just reuploaded it to Thingiverse, here's the link: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4932279

It was the first thing I created in Fusion 360 while learning the basics of 3D printing and CAD so it's not the most professional :)

Did anybody ever recreate the C64 look with a Raspberry Pi inside the original case?

Apparently: https://www.bartneck.de/2020/04/02/raspberry-c64-pi-computer...

Awesome! I want one :)

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