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 power to play basic video games by the DOSBox emulator.
“[This is] a retro desktop PC model case I designed and 3D printed primarily based on an outdated 286 PC I grew up with,” David explains of the venture. “eSun Bone White PLA was the closest I may out there in Australia that was an in depth color match, however [I’m] completely open to solutions if somebody has one thing higher; I actually wished the PrintedSolid stuff however they will not ship right here.”
The three-part fundamental 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 appear to be a basic CRT show. “I additionally tried out a 2.8″ LCD,” David provides, “and whereas I bought it working, discovered the DOS immediate unreadable at that dimension.”
The Raspberry Pi is configured in addition a replica of Debian “Bullseye” Linux, which reveals 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 basic first-person shooter Wolfenstein 3D or do some productiveness work in Microsoft’s Home windows 3.1.
The case and monitor are absolutely 3D-printable, and the remainder of the {hardware} simply sourced. (📷: fantasticmrdavid)
“it was an excellent enjoyable venture,” 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 info is out there in David’s Reddit thread, whereas directions and the 3D print information have been revealed to Printables underneath the Artistic Commons Attribution 4.0 Worldwide license.