BrewPi Case redesign: meet version 2.0!

Hi Brewers!

We have given the BrewPi case a major overhaul and are very pleased to present you the results: a more compact and much better looking design.

The case keeps a lot of features from the old design:

• Transparent laser-cut acrylic to proudly show off the geeky internals.
• The Raspberry Pi case locks into the top of the Arduino case.
• The OneWire distribution board can be mounted on top of the case or you can put it somewhere inside your fridge.
• A beautiful engraved BrewPi logo.

We have changed these bits:

• The Arduino is mounted on its side to save space. The connectors now plug into the side instead of the back.
• The menu knob has been moved to the side as well, which puts the LCD nicely in the center.
• The Raspberry Pi is now mounted to the bottom panel, it so cannot move around inside the case. This also allowed us to give the GPIO header a bit more distance from the case bolt nearby.
• We laser-cut the spacers for the display. The clear acrylic looks a lot better than the grey spaces we had before.

A lot of tiny tweaks were needed to make sure everything lined up correctly. We made 5 prototypes before we were happy with the end result.

We also found a new production partner with a huge industrial laser cutter, which means the new cases look better than ever.

This beast cuts the new BrewPi cases!

Zap Zap!

Cheers!

The BrewPi Team