Hello, on the box where the switches for reading from the nand or sd card are, can you make a hole to move the position of the levers without taking the cover apart.
Hi all! I understand that the problem of all engineers and electronics specialists (including me) is the case. I would like to ask: maybe together we can draw something other than a parallelepiped? Something more modern and different looking? At the moment, I asked a friend to draw a body similar or the same as that of the TPlink Be900, but he is still on vacation. Therefore, for now I’ll start sketching, taking into account the fact that the case is supposed to have a removable fan and a 2.5-inch hard drive for files. So, if you are interested, I will post the result here.
I have remixed this design to allow for a screwless composition (a 6-part modular design + 4 feet) and 3 (wider hole) antennas, the ones sold by AsiaRF in a pack with AW7916. It is meant to mount the board upside-down.
I’m not planning to develop this design any further, just wanted to share it (alongside a source Blender file).
bpir4case.tar.gz (430.3 KB)
Anybody skilled with openscad could consider contributing to GitHub - hominoids/SBC_Model_Framework: A framework for the generation of SBC and micro-controller models ? It might make adapting over the boards generations quicker. 
Hi! I was trying to modify the case myself and started with recreating a simplified model of R4 using the CAD files here and dxf drawings from wiki, however the mounting hole spacing is off by 0.5 mm and I have issues getting ports to line up, is this something by design for something effect during 3D printing?
Would it be possible to get the latest version of this in an STL or other format that works well in FreeCad or OpenSCAD? Can’t seem to get the 3mf file to import well to modify.
Is there a way to make this case rackmountable for a 19 inch by 1U rack?
I’m sorry but I cannot relate. Public projects for things like RPi work - this deviates a lot from BPi I have.
I created a v2 ceiling access point case. I converted two bpi-r4 to use poe+ and mounted both of them on the ceiling in my home. They’ve been working well with a 120mm fan. I’m seeing idle temps of 33c and peaks of 59c.
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May I ask which antennas you used? I plan something similar!
Could you maybe upload the latest version of your case in stl again. I like it but have the same problem as the guy before with dividing the parts of 3mf. Since the original metal case creates more RF noise I would switch to a 3D printed case.
Your case looks awesome, just im also needing access to the boot switches without needing to open the case
very cool. How about for the other side?
Hi guys 
Has anyone modeled just the top cover of the original case to add some ventilation? If such a model exists, please share it.
would you consider uploading to printables or makerworld? would be easier for others to find it and reuse the design
most stuff I found had very specific use cases like rack mount, etc.
I am working on this thing (without any ETA), firstly for myself, because I want something that looks like a standard desktop router from any other brands. A decade ago I had an Archer C7 with very fancy LEDs. I designed something similar by myself and it came out in very good shape from my 3D printer (transparent PLA).
Here is how it looks now: iCloud Photo Sharing
For the technical perspective, for the LEDs, I am using pogo pins, to hijack the ETH LEDs from the connector solder points and three more pogo pins for the reset and WDS button (by this test print, this idea looks like a working one). For the other LEDs (system, storage, internet, wifi1,2,3 and the two SFP LEDs) I defined LED devices on the free GPIOs. Because I wanted to use vanilla, unmodified OpenWRT I had to figure out how to add something for the device tree without touching anything which was provided by the OpenWRT (link). Because my plan is to only use one SIM, this was the only one which has been “extended” to the outer world via some extension cable. I am trying to design it to use as few supports as I can.
It looks great, too. I just wanted something that could be mounted in a 10“ or 19” rack. At the same time, I wanted to address the cooling issue. The fact that there’s no option to mount a fan on top bothers me the most. But since the manufacturers aren’t offering anything, I’ll just have to build something myself…