Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Weekend Project: Raspberry Pi Preserve Jar”.
If you’ve ever built a project with a Raspberry Pi, you probably put it in a store-bought or 3d printed enclosure, if you even bother to put it in one at all, if you plan on keeping your project around for a while a case can make things, look A bit nicer, but you don’t want yours to look like everybody else’s boring case. Do you, and this weekend project by Matt Reed will set up BitTorrent sync on the PI to create a quiet, low-cost data, backup system and will assemble the whole thing in a fancy. Mason jar enclosure, this Raspberry Pi, preserved jar, isn’t just a silly visual pun. It’S a great way to show off your PI project. You’Ll need all of these parts and tools to complete this build, while the software should run on any revision of the PI you’ll be best off using the original Raspberry Pi model B.
The reason here is the placement of the microUSB power jack on newer boards. This jack is on the side and you’d have a tough time getting it to fit inside the mason jar unless you have a fairly unique USB cable on the older board, the power jack is on the opposite side of the board from the Ethernet cable. It’S still not ideal, but it’s something we can work with start by taking your wooden board and trimming it down to a six inch square, then use a sander to round down the sharp edges drill a hole at each of the four corners one half-inch in for The decorative drawer pulls and rubber feet place the jar lid upside down on the board and drill the seven holes for the mounting post, the power and ethernet cables. The GPIO jumpers and the four LEDs install the hardware that will secure the jars lid to the board and then fit the Ethernet cable and USB cable through the three-quarter inch hole run. The five GPIO jumpers through a smaller hole connect all of these cables to the PI.
The jumpers will plug into GPIO, pin 17 18 22 23 and ground use a short metal bracket and some screws to secure the power in Ethernet cable to connect the LEDs, warm up, your soldering iron start trimming a few short lengths of jumper wire strip and tin. The ends of your jumpers and solder them to the PCB connect for 330 ohm resistors in series to the GPIO jumpers coming from the pie and then solder these to the positive legs of the led, protect any exposed joints with shrink tubing solder. All of the negative legs of the LEDs to a ground rail on the PCB and then solder, the GPIO ground, jumper to the ground, insert the LEDs into the four holes you drilled earlier and secure them in place with hot glue, download the noobs OS distribution and Then flash it to your SD card, insert it into your PI, connect it to your network and power.
It up connect to it via SSH and update the OS to the latest version, install node.js and the other software packages needed to support BitTorrent sync and then install the BitTorrent sync software finally set up the software packages to automatically run every time the PI boots. You will likely also need to apply for a BitTorrent sync API key to make the most out of this project. Okay, so you don’t need to put the Raspberry Pi in a mason jar in order to reap the benefits of this build.
But what I like about this build is that it’s different from most of the other Raspberry Pi cases that I’ve seen on the net. So what kind of enclosure would you use? Do you have any other ideas for a better or more unique housing? Let us know what you liked and didn’t like about this project and send us your tweets and photos of your build. We just might feature it in an upcoming weekend. Project .