There are a bunch of people making portable pi systems.
This one is pretty easy. It's also weirdly expensive considering the power of the machine you end up with. Ignoring the cost of the Pi - something like this costing about $50 would be great. I guess you could scavenge parts together. It's useful for some forums and very light web work. I don't know if that's evidence of the web failing or succeeding - that a 750 MHz machine isn't powerful enough for it.
Other people are being a little bit more adventurous. Here's one with a 3d printed case (http://blog.parts-people.com/2012/12/20/mobile-raspberry-pi-...) It's not as sleek as, for example, an OQO umpc but it's still pretty nice for something built at home.
Having read through a bunch of these I wish they'd start to use sleeving when they splice cables together. Little bits of heatshrink or hellerene tubing makes all the difference to reliability and neatness.
It seems the RPi is fulfilling its role as an educational tinkerer's gadget.
This one is pretty easy. It's also weirdly expensive considering the power of the machine you end up with. Ignoring the cost of the Pi - something like this costing about $50 would be great. I guess you could scavenge parts together. It's useful for some forums and very light web work. I don't know if that's evidence of the web failing or succeeding - that a 750 MHz machine isn't powerful enough for it.
Other people are being a little bit more adventurous. Here's one with a 3d printed case (http://blog.parts-people.com/2012/12/20/mobile-raspberry-pi-...) It's not as sleek as, for example, an OQO umpc but it's still pretty nice for something built at home.
This setup looks clunky, but the aim is to be powered off anything. (http://www.instructables.com/id/Port-a-Raspberry-Pi-Project/...)
Odd form factors abound. (http://www.skpang.co.uk/blog/archives/541) (fingerprints and dust would drive me bonkers with that clear acrylic!)
Here's a portable MAME system. This is interesting because of the limited keyboard. (http://blog.makezine.com/2013/01/22/portable-raspberry-pi-ma...)
Having read through a bunch of these I wish they'd start to use sleeving when they splice cables together. Little bits of heatshrink or hellerene tubing makes all the difference to reliability and neatness.
It seems the RPi is fulfilling its role as an educational tinkerer's gadget.