Raspberry Pi Case with OLED SSD1306 by Ajaxjones

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This is my second Pi Zero Case designed mainly to hold my Pi Zero W , but also works with the normal Pi Zero as well if you are using wifi dongles.
Its designed to allow the Pi to just slide in and the power cord keeps it in place. As it uses a sleeve to hold the Pi it also means it is quite robust and doesnt break mounting lugs and also does not neeed screws or bolts to hold it in.
In addition, the top can take a LED ring for added bling and I run it as a status light off a GPIO pin with a resistor. There is also a hole for a small push button and I monitor this with a script to shutdown the Pi if necessary.
The latest mod was inspired by someone who installed a larger OLED, but I tried here to keep it within the case. As it is rotated 90 degress, I use the luma.oled library and rotate the output and use I2C to communicate with the Pi.
It now runs an instance of PiHole to block adverts from my laptops and mobile devices at home and have added a clock for functionality.
The base now has a title space where i applied some Tip-ex and write the IP address of the box as I have too many now and dont like using hostnames and prefer fixed IP
It all prints easily and the only trick is that i have printed the LED diffuser in PETG with 0% infill.
If you just want it as a case, then you can omit the light ring or print it as a solid.
Hope you like it and it makes a change from the standard flat rectangles.
I use the 128x32 SSD1306 I2C clones from ebay which do the trick.