I've been encouraging people building Freebees to post pictures of their machines. I derive great satisfaction from seeing the customisations people put into their creations. Knowing that people are having fun with stuff that I've designed is, well, a real blast. And if others see what's happening they'll be egged on to join in and have a go themselves.
So with permission of people, I'm going to make this post a tribute to the various machines that are out there. If you want me to feature yours, just drop me a line on my email - suzyfromoz@gmail.com - with a picture and description and I'll add it. If you have a blog or whatever where you feature it I can bung a link in for that too.
So in no particular order:
Brizza's Freebee Fremium, with Compact Flash coreboard. Brizza designed a cool 3D printed lower case for his that keeps it off the desk, while providing instant access to the top of the machine:
Brizza is a sucker for punishment, and also built a standard Freebee:
Cheshirenoir's Freebee Fremium prototype. Cheshire isn't above adding bodge wires to make a board work, so bravely built one of the initial Fremium prototypes up, dealing with a dodgy CRTC and annoyingly fast RAM along the way, then putting it in a cool laser cut case:
Glen's Freebee is unique. He built a version of the production board just before the power switch was added. Glen discovered the fast RAM issues on the initial Freebee, that can be worked around by using slower video RAM, and have since been resolved in Freebee Fremium (but not in original Freebee - I must revisit the design when I have a chance). Check out the cool 3D printed keyboard frame and custom keycaps:
Dirk https://8bitsisenough.blogspot.com is brave enough to go with lavender keycaps on his Freebee Fremium build. His blog has some great pointers on sourcing components:
