Laser Cut Inky WHAT Pibow Add-on

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An enclosure for the Pimoroni Inky wHAT, an e-ink display for the Raspberry Pi in a "wide HAT" format (AKA larger than a normal HAT and the Raspberry itself).

I designed it to be somehow "Pibow compatible" (even if larger, you can stack it on top of other Pibow's layers), but you should also be able to use it with other Raspberry's enclosures as long as they left the space above the GPIO open to connect HATs (depending on the case and the Pi model, you may need a GPIO header extension to rise it a bit).
You can also use it without a Raspberry case at all, protecting only the e-ink display (it's probably a lot more fragile than the Pi itself).

It consists of 4 layers that need to be cutted from 3mm thick plexiglass and you will need 4 M3 nuts & bolts to put them together (I used nylon ones, like in the Pibow).
If you also want to fix the display to the bottom layer, to be sure that it doesn't move in the enclosure when the Pi is removed, you will also need four M2.5 x 0.45 screws and four M2.5 1mm-thick washers (preferably plastic ones).

Edit: In the images I've used a Pibow Coupè with GPIO with a header extension and 8 plastic spacer rings (about 5mm tall) from a Meccano kit just because I've connected a temperature sensor to the Inky wHAT and the heat from the Pi could have distorted its readings. If you have a standard Pibow, you are good to go without any spacer.

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