TARDIS Deluxe New Rear Panel for Raspberry Pi Case

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I wanted to utilize this as a Raspberry Pi enclosure for a specific reason, but getting the numerous cables in was a major obstacle. So I reworked a side panel to make it simpler to route the cables to the Pi. I also desired more room, so I printed the entire project at 140% scale. I drilled the mounting holes for the Pi by hand, one of the side panels. The specific purpose was to mount the Pi in an enclosure that matched the program I was operating. It is an Amiga Emulator, and for me, the ability to run and develop an Amiga is, in itself, a time machine. Hence the TARDIS, to help transport me back to the 80s. Not content with simply having it sit there, I decided to activate it while loading up the emulator. I added two LEDs, a white one for the beacon, and an amber one for the interior light. I also plugged in a cheap PC speaker for sound. I then intercepted the Amiga Emulator startup and composed a program to turn on the interior LED and pulse the beacon. I used a Linux program called aplay to play the TARDIS sound. Labels were included by countspatula, but since I don't possess a label maker, I was stuck with using JPGs, which become somewhat distorted when scaled up to 140%. So I created my own, utilizing Corel Draw. I printed them on Avery labels (5523/5543 - same as 5163) because the weatherproof labels are much whiter than regular paper or labels. I have uploaded the Corel file. I have published a video of it in action on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HkrkMe3UTE "Tardis_Takeoff is a bash script that plays the Tardis takeoff sound. "pulse.py is a Python program that illuminates the amber internal LED and flashes the white beacon LED.