Love ’em or hate ’em, you’ve got to hand it to Apple: they really know how to push people’s buttons with design. Their industrial designers can make a product so irresistible – and their marketing team can cannonball the hype train sufficiently – that people will stand in line for days to buy a new product, and shell out unfathomable amounts of money for the privilege.
But what if you’re a poor college student without the budget for such treasures of industrial design? Simple – you take matters into your own hands and stuff a Raspberry Pi into a cheese grater. That’s what a group of engineering students from the University of Aveiro in Portugal called [NeRD-AETTUA] did, in obvious homage to the world’s most expensive cheese grater. The video below for the aptly named RasPro is somewhat less slick that Apple’s promos for the Mac Pro, but it still gets the basics across. Like the painstakingly machined brushed aluminum housing on the Mac, the IKEA cheese grater on the RasPro is just a skin. It covers a 3D-printed chassis that houses a beefy power supply and fan to go along with the Raspberry Pi 3. There’s also a speaker for blasting the tunes, which seems to be the primary use for the RasPro.
All things considered, the cheese grater design isn’t really that bad a form factor for a Pi case. If that doesn’t appeal, though, take your pick: laser-cut plywood, an Altoids tin, or even inside your PC.
is it dishwashable?
Sure it is! Once…
Well, nothing technically prevents multiple washings!
As much as the original
Offcorse. Contrarie to the majority thinking , water is not enemy of electronics. Warm water and soap will clean any scraps of cheese .
You should guarantie that RasPro is dry before you power on :)
“the world’s most expensive cheese grater” ? https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/6/20/18693400/apple-new-mac-pro-cheese-grater-not-great-cnc-machine
Less Hacky, but I CAD-ed up a Pro-style case for the Pi3B and might even make it this weekend. (As I have a CNC mill)
https://a360.co/2Rt4wax
Cool, do you think that it can be 3D printed? I am interested in that :)
nice job!
Have fun: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3705677
I look forward to seeing it! Any provision for a fan?
Looking at that rendering and imagining it as a machined block of aluminum, I’m digging the gloriously overbuilt vibe.
Machined from Aluminium, and Pi3B+ mounted.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/GXLUDYukuUpvGuec9
To answer a question elsewhere, WiFi seems to work fine.
Hi! You can learn how to do it yourself at our website : http://nerd.aettua.pt/raspro/
There are links to Thingiverse and Instructables !
Just perfect!!! Like the idea
Thanks for the link to the Mac Pro, I don’t follow Mac to closely, it certainly is a well made presentation, and the machine looks like it will really kick butt. I’m sitting down, so if someone knows what the price will be, go ahead and post it. B^)
$5000 for the base model. But rumour has it that you can spec it up to about $45,000.
But that would be 128GB of video memory and 2.5 TB of RAM
More like 4x32gb of video memory. Worst case of the cards working togheter all memory needs to be duplicated giving 32gb of usable memmory. Still many graphics workloads could be separated to give loads of usable memmory but 4×32 is still less than 128 from a practical point
IIRC, via infinity fabric, the cards can share memory, meaning that the 128Gb of NVRAM figure is more accurate than “4·32”.
Also don’t forget that the video RAM of the Vega cards is HBM, so quite a bit faster then GDDR
My only complaint on the RasPro, is how the RasPi’s USB and Enet ports seem skewed in the finished(?) product.
I think it’s just an optical illusion due to the shape of the grater body
This form factor is not only fancy. The thermal performance should be very good with this funless design :)
1. The plastic being used by the printer is not rated for DSR.
2. The ground pin of the AC receptacle should be bonded to the grater.
3. Should not be used to grate cheese while connected to AC mains; but this is HaD, so do it.
also you need disconnect your brain, for creating new products.
When under heavy load, the processor may begin to reach unacceptably high temperatures. To alleviate this, the user should procure some well-chilled very sharp cheddar from their refrigerator and rub vigorously against the holes on the same side as the processor die. Continue until processor temperature returns to a nominal figure, and collect the exhaust dripping out the bottom of the unit on a plate of nachos or perhaps some piping-hot enchiladas.
This thermal management mechanism represents a massive improvement upon the previous mac pro design, in which the user was required to stuff used tissues and other refuse into the top orifice of the wastebasket-shaped unit until it caught fire and reached its designed end-of-life.
I’m pretty sure that NASA and Lockheed have made cheese grater cases much more expensive than the Mac. And the Soviet Union undoubtedly then made one bigger.
I think any of the cheesier bare bones PC cases will do a better job.
“But what if you’re a poor college student without the budget for such treasures of industrial design?”
This is HaD. What makes you think we’re poor? ;-)
Or that we went to college ;P
Seems to me it would also double as an anti-theft device ……. Anyone trying to jerk it out of your hand is going to end up with shredded fingers ……
Neat, but I would have done it slightly differently, don’t modify the cheese grater in any way, have the PS connector on the top of the device and the ports on the bottom, tie the power cord around the handle when you plug it in and hang it from the ceiling. (Just make sure the computer doesn’t fall out of the grater!)
I like the extra pun in the RasPro name as a cheese grater is a rasp of sorts (at least the parmasean side is)…
Make America grate again.
there the sime kind of project for the trashcan however, the clustered Pi’s trashcan was really great. I can’t find it anymore, there are lot of copycats but a lot less polished and organized than the DIYed version I have seen 5 years ago.
Farraday cage … how is WiFi performing?
this is a majir drawback of this design
It seems to be very cheap here: https://www.halvathinnat.com/raspberry-pi-model-b-3-1gb-ram-1200mhz-quad-core.html