You Have a Raspberry Pi. Now What? - Adventures in Raspberry Pi - page 4

If you don't want to spend cash on a case, why not create your own by using the
Raspberry Pi Punnet? This template can be printed onto card, and then cut out
and folded into a box. You can really let yourself get creative here and customise
your case using pens, paints, stickers or coloured card to create a masterpiece.
You can download the template from this site: http://squareitround.
co.uk/Resources/Punnet_net_Mk1.pdf .
Want a sturdier case? Build one with Lego blocks! You can find instructions to
build the Lego Raspberry Pi case shown in Figure 1-3 on the official Lego website
at http://www.thedailybrick.co.uk/instructions/Building%20
Instructions%20[Raspberry%20Pi%202].html .
FIGURE 1-3 Build a Lego case for your Raspberry Pi.
Reproduced by permission of The Daily Brick
• A few spare SD cards —It's worth having a few extra 4 GB SD cards just in case
the one you're using becomes corrupted or stops working for any reason. They
are also useful for backing up your files and projects—I explain how to do this at
the end of the chapter.
• An SD card reader/writer —You'll need an SD card reader/writer to enable
you to put the Raspberry Pi operating system software onto an SD card. You
download the operating system software onto your computer, plug the card
reader into a USB port on your computer and use it to copy the OS onto an SD