If you have read my other posts here, you know I am fascinated with 3D Printing, but something you probably do not know is I have almost as big a fascination with Raspberry PI. The DIY movement is taking off big time, eventually allowing us to make in our garage things that couldn't be made on billion dollar R&D budgets just 5-10 years ago. 3D printing and Raspberry Pi seem to be coming together allowing for even more freedom for us makers. Here is one example I ran across this morning:



This is basically a DIY laptop computer. Created by Nathan organ, from Austin, Texas, the internals are all via Raspberry PI, while the outside shell is 3D printed. Despite this system looking like something from the early 90's, it actually has some decent specs. It has a 10 hour battery life, 64 GB ssd memory, and is both wifi and bluetooth enabled.



Here is a look at the internals: