Raspberry PI Modular Case

This is a 3D printed modular casing for the Raspberry PI, it contains modules for RPi 3B+, 4 and 5. There are also modules for two different SSD disks and a power supply. There are back covers that are solid, with mountings for 4010 fans, and with grid.

The modules can be stacked in any order and to any height, the only exception is that the power supply module has to be in the bottom.

The RPi modules are 30mm high and the SSD modules 15mm. The fan back cover is 45mm.

SSD Modules

The SSD disks I use come from scrapped USB portable drives, there are two different modules. One for a disk from a LaCie Porsche and the other from a Western Digital WD1600ME-01.

Raspberry PI

There are modules for Raspberry Pi 3B+, 4 and 5. For the RPi 5 there is also a button for the power switch.

Power Supply

The power supply module is designed for a Mean Well LRS-50-5 power supply. This supply can supply 5V, adjustable, and 50W power, 10A.

The power is distributed to the RPi's using two brass rods, 10mm by 2mm.

Do take care when connecting the line power, and follow your local regulations.

If you are running Debian on a Raspberry PI 5, the RPI might not start when power is applied, you have to push the power button for the RPI to start.

The way to have the RPI 5 automatically boot when power is applied is to add this line in the file /boot/firmware/config.txt:

usb_max_current_enable=1

On older versions of Debian use the file /boot/config.txt.

The Stack

Now it is time to stack your RPi's and disks on the power supply. Place as many modules as you like on top of each other and secure them together with 3*16mm wood screws, not counter sunk.

This is what my stack looks like in action.

Printing the parts

The 3D print files are available for free at Cults.

Credits

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