I think finding a suitable case could be a problem, especially for those of us who don't own a 3D printer.It also looks like the basis for a daily driver compact BBC, if the keyboard PCB in one of the posts was available alongside, and some use made of 3D printing to make a "FPGA BBC Compact" style case and keyboard shell, Naturally in beige.
I'm wondering whether the board could be made the same size as a Mini-ITX motherboard (i.e. 170mm * 170mm) so it could be fitted inside a standard Mini-ITX case. Prices for such cases start at about £30, and even the cheaper ones look far nicer than anything you could made with a 3D printer. Unfortunately, I haven't seen many beige ones. But I suppose you could paint a black one beige if you really wanted to.
Another possibility would be to redesign the board so it could be a drop-in replacement for an actual BBC Micro or Electron motherboard. But that's presumably harder to achieve than simply resizing the board to make it Mini-ITX compatible.
Statistics: Posted by Grasshopper — Mon Jan 05, 2026 12:05 pm