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Is that pronounced PIckle?

Mr_Navigator wrote:Hmm some of those suggestions Dave might not work:
I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do
I've just picked up a fault in the AE35 unit. It's going to go 100% failure in 72 hours
It can only be attributable to human error.

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Nice looking design! uQLx for Linux on the RPi is undergoing testing, so if QL style cases come along too that will be brilliant!
The name PiQL though? Hmmm...

Sparrowhawk wrote:Is that pronounced PIckle?

yes

so so so many connotations

vanpeebles wrote:Haha. I'm spending the summer tinkering with my fleet of bangers. The MG needs a bit of work but I was sad to see the Alfa go.

Even his cars are version "MG" it seems

Was at the RSPB Glaslyn Osprey Centre this weekend for an event there and we had a visit by about 100 MG owners from the MG Owners Club on a round Snowdonia trip, their annual Snowdon Run. Spent some time (in the rain!) having a good look at both the vintage and modern MGs. Don't suppose you were among them somewhere, vanpeebles?

Dave wrote:I am working on a design for a Raspberry Pi case in the style of the Sinclair QL black ABS case. It will be printed on a 3D printer. The idea here is to make a tough, nice looking case for the Pi that QLers will instantly recognize.

Most likely, it will look like a Tandata modem box, but smaller.

One option is to include a mini PSU to run the Pi, based off a mains->USB adaptor of the type found for $5 that autoranges from 100-240V...

Ideas - let's share them!

Just catching up on posts, are you still looking at doing this? I was thinking of building a Pi in a Spectrum case but its a bit to small

dilwyn wrote:

vanpeebles wrote:Haha. I'm spending the summer tinkering with my fleet of bangers. The MG needs a bit of work but I was sad to see the Alfa go.

Even his cars are version "MG" it seems

Was at the RSPB Glaslyn Osprey Centre this weekend for an event there and we had a visit by about 100 MG owners from the MG Owners Club on a round Snowdonia trip, their annual Snowdon Run. Spent some time (in the rain!) having a good look at both the vintage and modern MGs. Don't suppose you were among them somewhere, vanpeebles?

Just seen this post now, no it's a bit too much of a trek(no pun) for me but it sounds like a good event. Did you take any pics?

vanpeebles wrote:

dilwyn wrote:

vanpeebles wrote:Haha. I'm spending the summer tinkering with my fleet of bangers. The MG needs a bit of work but I was sad to see the Alfa go.

Even his cars are version "MG" it seems

Was at the RSPB Glaslyn Osprey Centre this weekend for an event there and we had a visit by about 100 MG owners from the MG Owners Club on a round Snowdonia trip, their annual Snowdon Run. Spent some time (in the rain!) having a good look at both the vintage and modern MGs. Don't suppose you were among them somewhere, vanpeebles?

Just seen this post now, no it's a bit too much of a trek(no pun) for me but it sounds like a good event. Did you take any pics?

It was raining too much for me to take pictures. Part of the site, including two marquees and the craft event car parking got flooded. Eventually the organisers abandoned the event as the site was in serious danger of becoming totally flooded. I have a couple of pictures of the flood if you'd like to see those (we took pictures of that end of the site in case it became an insurance issue).

Dilwyn

iand wrote:

Dave wrote:I am working on a design for a Raspberry Pi case in the style of the Sinclair QL black ABS case. It will be printed on a 3D printer. The idea here is to make a tough, nice looking case for the Pi that QLers will instantly recognize.

Most likely, it will look like a Tandata modem box, but smaller.

One option is to include a mini PSU to run the Pi, based off a mains->USB adaptor of the type found for $5 that autoranges from 100-240V...

Ideas - let's share them!

Just catching up on posts, are you still looking at doing this? I was thinking of building a Pi in a Spectrum case but its a bit to small

John Alexander (who is on the ql-users list) is also doing RPi cases, though not in QL style AFAIK. Not sure either if he's using 3d printersor how he's doing them. Maybe you can all see them in the pictures of the Wigan Raspberry Jam.

Dilwyn

dilwyn wrote:

iand wrote:

Dave wrote:I am working on a design for a Raspberry Pi case in the style of the Sinclair QL black ABS case. It will be printed on a 3D printer. The idea here is to make a tough, nice looking case for the Pi that QLers will instantly recognize.

Most likely, it will look like a Tandata modem box, but smaller.

One option is to include a mini PSU to run the Pi, based off a mains->USB adaptor of the type found for $5 that autoranges from 100-240V...

Ideas - let's share them!

Just catching up on posts, are you still looking at doing this? I was thinking of building a Pi in a Spectrum case but its a bit to small

John Alexander (who is on the ql-users list) is also doing RPi cases, though not in QL style AFAIK. Not sure either if he's using 3d printersor how he's doing them. Maybe you can all see them in the pictures of t
he Wigan Raspberry Jam.

Dilwyn

I was at the Wigan jam, I arranged it
John had his case on display.

I think it should be possible to read the ql keyboard and convert it USB and then mount the pi in a real ql. I may look for a broken ql on ebay

My Pi arrived last week. I've put it in a PiBow case which, although not QL-ish, at least reminds me of my spectrum thanks to the spectrum of coloured layers it uses. Very pretty

Loving it so far. I've only installed the RISC OS distro so far (excellent! ) but this weekend I hope to get Raspian (Pi-optimised debian Linux) running on it too and then stick an external HDD off it and use it as a small LAMP test stack.

It really does rekindle the fun factor with regards computing. I don't know why really - it's just a small computer, but there's something about it...