I am going to release a limited batch of the WALKER case.
Limited means 202 cases. 1 for me, 1 for a friend and 200 for whoever likes it : )
Each case will habe a serial and date stamp.

The case is a resized version of the Walkers designed to hold a Raspberry Pi2 with UPS (3000mA battery), a PiTFT Touchscreen, a slim DVD-RW drive and optionally a 2.5" Hardrive. Also included are speakers so it can act as a mobile boombox.

The 4 legs can be removed and another case can be placed below it with more extensions.

One extension is a Keyrah or kyroflux for example.

The OS is AEROS Premium. It comes with AmigaOS 3.1 which can be launched from AEROS. Also you can run a majority of i386 linux apps and Windows apps without the need for direct3D.

You are free to choose colors like red, blue, green, black and white.
Price is 300€ including:
Case,
Powerplug
UPS
Pi-TFT
AEROS Premium
AmigaOS 3.1
DVD-RW (CD32 anyone? )

The ground dimension is 150x150mm

Together with the case you get the 3d data so you can enhance the design or create additional stacks.




The Touchscreen can do Screen-mirroring or can show a unique UI to control the music player or "Power, - reset and sleep buttons". Also system notifications or messages could be forwarded.

Available here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/681890174/quantahome-quantum-computing-for-raspberry-pi

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@phoenixkonsole

Interesting idea, but I really don´t like such red design. However, I´m not future customer, so my opinion is not relevant.

@pavlor
About colors see above. Black, Green, Blue and white are also possible. On request maybe more.
The case alone is around 80€.

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@pavlor

walker clone come in these colour to blue, green, black and white.


you may of miss other colours

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@phoenixkonsole

hell dose Raspberry Pi2 including: with walker Case, as i own pi2

thank you

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Walker design was ugly and misguided back in 1995 and still is

@ExiE
I like it more as soon you start stacking, so it grows to a tower.



Sound tower : )

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@phoenixkonsole

I prefer the look of this one.

@Rob
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phoenixkonsole wrote: @ExiE I like it more as soon you start stacking, so it grows to a tower. Sound tower : )

Looks like a trashcan...

The typewriter design for A500/600/1200/C64/128 is fine and universally acceptable, same with a 19" cuboid box stereo design or any cuboids-shaped design like loudspeakers, but this Walker belong in a baby room, or jusst for nostalgic reasons or just plain scary.

Who the heck came with such a horrible design anyways?

@LimoU.Sin
Hmm i like it : )
The first time i saw the walker was in a magazine called Amiga games... So yes maybe it is nostalgia... Back than lt was a good sign (Hope for a Amiga future)..

Yes indeed nostalgia : )

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@LimoU.Sin

Yeah, this design will sit nicely next to my desk...as a new trashcan :) Sorry Pascal :) hehe Es tut mir leid.

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@LimoU.Sin

The tower version looks like a kitchen bin of some sort, maybe IKEA would be interested?

The regular desktop design is better, I think for the time was quite a neat design and would have stood out from the crowd. It also accomodated a CD-ROM drive and floppy drive while keeping a small footprint. Of course a few years after the Walker the iMac, PC gaming cases took off and the industry become more experimental.

On your updated design I think less would be more really, not keen on the screen or red. Keep it quite mimimal preferably with optical drive hidden behind some facia (like the A1-500 case). Maybe have an empty 3.5" drive bay as on the original, useful for card readers, extra USBs, hard drive tray, etc.

@phoenixkonsole

For nostalgic reasons in 2015 yes.

can't remember what magazine it was, probably CU or Amiga Format or something I saw it for the first time and I was paralyzed by how bad it looked. Couldn't invite girls home with such a monster of a typewriter/computer... If I remember correctly i thought the BoXer was the most interesting Amiga clone at the time.

BTW, the Nintendo 64 looked weird too but that was just a game console.

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@LimoU.Sin
Well this thing here is much much smaller than the original. The touchscreen is there to be able to play music without the need of a tv/monitor. So basically it is a mediacenter case with a excentric design ; )

Btw.. The red color was the default color of the material in the cad system. . The slim dvd-rw just fits... The widest dimension is 150mm ...so it is a cute little vacuum cleaner

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phoenixkonsole wrote: @LimoU.Sin Well this thing here is much much smaller than the original. The touchscreen is there to be able to play music without the need of a tv/monitor. So basically it is a mediacenter case with a excentric design ; ) Btw.. The red color was the default color of the material in the cad system. . The slim dvd-rw just fits... The widest dimension is 150mm ...so it is a cute little vacuum cleaner

Usually you put the vacuum cleaner or food processor away when you're done with it or its finished, you don't do that with a stereo... My DAB radio has round corners btw?

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@phoenixkonsole

It's too small.

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@Tomppeli
It holds a raspberry pi, a dvd-rw, a ups, a tft and has room for a 2.5" hard drive.
So compared to a normal raspberry pi case it is huge.
For extension like floppy you can add an extra stack below.

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Tomppeli wrote: @phoenixkonsole It's too small.

He could always put on some buttons and get something like this:


I can remember my uncle bought pac-man and donkey kong on something like this when he was out at sea too:

@phoenixkonsole

So you made it only for Pi. What about Sam boards, for example ?

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