4 New Community Projects to Explore with Your PocketC.H.I.P.

3D print of marjoras_other_mask's first design

3D print of marjoras_other_mask’s first design

The NTC forum is full of Pocketeers pushing PocketC.H.I.P. to its full potential. The hacks are getting more frequent and more ambitions. If you’re looking for hacks to explore, the forum is a great place to start your adventure.

Just this week, Marjoras_other_mask shared a great case hack with a kickstand, FireflyII added a thumbstick-mouse for precision control, and debianUser and emuboy are trying out different window managers to radically change the user experience.

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New Highlights from the PocketC.H.I.P. Case Mod Community

Nice lime keys

Nice lime keys on that PocketC.H.I.P, Johnbiehler

With upwards of 5.7k views and 243 individual posts, the PocketC.H.I.P. Case Mod, Customization, and Decoration threads is one of the most popular on the NTC forums.

The lengthy, and ongoing, conversation covers everything from admiring case design of existing products to sharing 3D printable add-ons to showing off successfully assembled custom enclosures.

Our forum software estimates that it would take 28 minutes to read the entire thread, but who has that kind of time? Here are some of the recent highlights.

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C.H.I.P.sters in Focus: Custom C.H.I.P. Case Roundup

This week at the office we’re getting a new 3D printer for prototyping. It got me thinking about all the things I want to print. Rather than printing doodads and Yoda heads, I surfed over to the forum to look for custom C.H.I.P. enclosures.

The community did not disappoint! Custom enclosures abound! Some are 3D printable, others use Lego brick designs, and one gem simply repurposes the cardboard box C.H.I.P. ships in. Check them out.

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