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Retro Raspberry Pi Computer (Pi Deck)
This project was inspired by an old Project-or-View slide viewer that I found at a thrift store. I was inspired by it's resemblance to a tiny computer, and decided to turn it into a small, portable, Raspberry Pi powered computer.
The project involved a fair amount of modification to the original components, as well as the design and fabrication of a number of custom 3D printed parts. These 3D printed components housed the electronics that would make up the computer and computer interface.
This Retro Raspberry Pi Deck has all the functionality of a regular computer:
4GB Ram Raspberry Pi 4B
5" LCD Touchscreen
7" Standard LCD Display
1" GPIO Display
SD Card Reader
Micro SD Card Reader
4 Pin GX12 Aviation Connectors (USB Interface)
Keyboard
Mousepad
Half the fun of this project was disassembling the original Project-or-View. This was a neat product in itself, allowing for the viewing of slides directly on the display or the projection of slides on a wall using a clever series of mirrors and lenses.
Fitting all the desired functionality into a fairly small system required several iterations of 3D printed components as well as some tricky wire management.
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