A Raspberry Pi Mini Laptop Tucked Into a Spellbook

There are two things that motivate makers: the simple urge to harness your ingenuity and create something, and the ability to make your own unique devices that don’t have a broad enough market for mass production. A corporation may not see the value in your IoT dog treat dispenser, but as a maker you’re free to create it anyway. It’s that freedom that allowed YouTuber Kamitech to create Spellbook, a Raspberry Pi mini laptop.

Kamitech likes to play tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons and often needs to look up the specifics of the spells that his character casts. He was using an old smartphone to do that, but that died and he needed something new. What he came up with is a Raspberry Pi mini laptop that’s concealed within what looks like a magical tome. That book is actually 3D-printed, and houses all of the laptop’s components.

Spellbook is running on a Raspberry Pi Zero W, but Kamitech reports that there is sufficient room to add a full-size Raspberry Pi if he ever needs the extra horsepower. The display is a generic 9" LCD, and the keyboard is a small model that was pulled from a tablet case and connects via USB. Power is provided by two 2500mAh lithium-ion batteries through an Adafruit PowerBoost 500C board. All of those components fit inside the custom enclosure, and Kamitech now has a fun way to look up spells during gaming sessions.