Enclosure for Raspberry Pi 3 and LiFePO4wered/Pi3

Name: Enclosure for Raspberry Pi 3 and LiFePO4wered/Pi3
SKU: 8644
Price: 10.99 USD
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Rating: 4.38 (10 reviews)

(10 Reviews)

An acrylic laser-cut enclosure for the Raspberry Pi 3 and the LiFePO4wered/Pi3 battery system

Designed by Marty Rice in United States of America

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An acrylic laser-cut enclosure for the Raspberry Pi 3 and the LiFePO4wered/Pi3 battery system

Review Breakdown

Average Ratings

Product: (4.50)

Documentation: (4.10)

Shipping: (4.50)

Communication: (4.40)

Scott | May 6, 2018

Very nice and simple to put together

This case looks great and holds my portable pi media server very nicely. The vendor was extremely helpful when my package went astray. The case looks good and the instructions are very clear and easy to follow.

Lance | Dec. 12, 2017

It's good... a couple of things could be better

All in all it is a good product and when the Pi + battery are installed it is a nice package. Here is how it could be improved:

The assembly instructions are very limited. More would be better.

The design fails to accommodate the pins and solder on the bottom of the Pi. Tightening down the screws can bend the Pi board a bit.

I am surprised there is no opening to access the GPIO pins. I know not everyone wants that but modifying the case to permit access
was a bit tricky.

Ben | Nov. 2, 2017

Good case well made.

The case does the job well. Its solid and a good design.

Only thing I would change is to find away to cover over the battery system on the end just to make it look better. but not needed for functionality.

thanks :)

Jasper | Aug. 19, 2017

Just what I needed!

TL;DR
This case fits snugly which is great since acrylic squeaks if it moves the slightest. All the ports I use are accessible and my plugs all fit. I love the flat sides since it can now stand on 5 out of 6 sides. Marty was responsive and handled the mishap in a timely manner.

I know the Pi was designed to be a super affordable computer, but somehow I ended up spending more on various accessories than the Pi itself! Went through a few cases before coming across the LiFePO4wered project on hackaday and then patiently waited for that to come out. Then I immediately realized none of my cases fit with the new protruding growth out the side. Tried out various acrylic cases but the quality has never been great. Then one day I saw the LiFePO4wered got updated to use the bigger 18650 battery and went to Tindie to check out price. Saw this nice little case linked in the description and decided to go for it since it was purpose built for the LiFePO4wered! All in all, it's been an adventure getting my Pi protected and now I feel ready to expand the farm!

Alan | July 29, 2017

Turns Pi 3 into a "Proper" Desktop, w/BIG heatsink.

While I am away from my desk, I leave one of my Raspberry Pi 3 computers running BOINC with Einstein@Home and SETI@Home tasks crunching with computing options set to 70% processor / 80% memory. In a FLIRC metal Pi3 case, vcgencmd measure_temp reports 69-73 degC, BUT my precious Pi3 and SD card are vulnerable to the "Florida Flicker And Flash" power company.

BTW, this crunching draws about 0.7A at 5.4v at the wall-wart before installing the LiFePO4wered/Pi3 UPS. Since this is below the 0.85A load limit of the LiFePO4wered/Pi3 UPS, there is no electrical problem to support this.

I purchased the LiFePO4wered/Pi3 UPS with this cool transparent blue case. The case went together easily, and is very aesthetic on my desk.

Because the old metal case had an integrated heatsink, I added heatsinks over the CPU and LAN chips before closing up the cool, new blue case.

My Pi3 quickly started reporting temperature throttling (0x20002) so I scaled back the computing load. I ended up having to run with the top cover off yielding temps from 74.1-75.2'C.

When I stuck a second heatsink on the CPU making the total heatsink about 12mm high, and turned the case on edge with the battery down, it is running on three cores, 70% of processor time, 80% of memory and staying around 72-74 degC - Success!

Ned | July 17, 2017

Attractive and functional case for PI 3 and UPS

This is a very nice case for the Raspberry Pi 3 and LiFePO4wered/Pi3 combo. Unfortunately I initially received the wrong case - the one I received was for the Raspberry PI 3 without the UPS - but that was quickly rectified by contacting the vendor, who immediately dropped the correct case in the mail.

The case is fairly intricate - a lot of effort went into the design and the plexiglass work is very high quality.

I have only two criticisms:

(1) The end of the battery away from the connector needs more physicals support. I solved that as others have with a double piece of sticky tape.

(2) There's no slot for access to the GPIO connector. I'm going to need that at some point, but I think I can get by with a cable run through one of the vent holes.

Jean-Jacques | May 30, 2017

The perfect case for the LiFePO4wered/Pi3

The Raspberry Pi and the LiFePO4wered/Pi3 fit perfectly all together in this case.
I recommand to insert two layers of double-sided tape underneath the LiFePO4wered/Pi3 to solidarize it with the bottom plate.

June | May 22, 2017

Base behavior a little weird, mechanical support not great

Previous review was for the LiFePO4 board itself, not for this enclosure. The enclosure is actually pretty awesome, though I do wish it was a little more snug around the pi and had adequate protection for the back end of the battery enclosure, but overall, quite good.

June | May 22, 2017

Base behavior a little weird, mechanical support not great

Without the drivers installed, the base behavior of the addon board is a little weird -- literally no way to turn off the pi without the drivers installed. Additionally, the mechanical support of the addon board is very poor. It feels like the control board might easily break, and there's limited support for the battery enclosure to be anchored to the pi. Overall, though, it gets the job done, given you provide some form of additional mechanical support for the addon around the pi it's attached to (ie: the LiFePO4 Pi case).

Alan | Feb. 16, 2017

Stylish and Functional!

Case(s) arrived quickly, and I felt it was quite well protected from scratches by the paper covering on surface.
I feared it would be hard to remove given all the cut-outs, but I was able to remove most in one piece, and at most three pieces, each time starting from a corner and just carefully pulling it up.

I have assembled a Red and and Green case, the Blue is waiting to be deployed to my 3rd Pi that lives in a box on the side of my house - so it will wait for the right day. So far the Green looks coolest, probably because of the greenish tint to the Pi PCBoard itself.

Perfect, but admittedly minimal, instructions for assembly allowed me to assemble it fine on the first try, but did require a little tiny bit of puzzling out how it all goes together. No suggestions for how to improve the instructions since I think nothing short of a video could make it better.

The LiFePO4wered/Pi3 and my PI2 fit perfectly in the box, leaving good ventilation. In my application (piaware from flightaware) I get CPU temperature graphs, and going from a "naked Pi" to in this case only raised the core CPU temp from 120F to 130F while using 30% of the CPU 24x7. Don't know if it matters, but I have my PIs vertical, sitting on the only "edge" without external connectors, which puts the LiFePO4wered/Pi3 at the bottom. This is the same orientation that I used without the case, as I found it also led to the lowest core CPU temperatures.

Case seems very well built, I've taken it apart a few times and put it back together with zero fear that anything will break, unlike some of my previous Pi only cases with plastic catches.

Quite happy

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