Thursday, February 8, 2024

A Better Disney Computer? - Part 3?

 


Here is my idea for a better Disney computer. It is inspired by Goofy's hat or at least it does to me. 

The Disney computer they had before was a small desktop with a few Mickey Mouse type things added to it. I thought it was kind of plain and not very creative. It used a small desktop tower with a CRT monitor. It had a Disney frame around the monitor. I thought they could have done better.

My idea for a Disney Goofy (see other - part 2 - for the Mickey Mouse inspired computer) computer. It is a rough sketch. The main box is shaped like the hat Goofy wears. It has feet at the bottom to stabilize it. It doesn't show speakers but they could be on either side of the monitor. 

I think the main box could hold the main board - a Raspberry Pi board or small mini-ITX style board - that could easily fit within it. It could a thin LCD or OLED screen like that used in a laptop computer. If one wanted a camera, it could be placed above the screen. One could place speakers on either side of the screen. 

Since optical drive are no longer on newer computers, one would not have to make room for one. If one wanted one, there are USB optical drives that one could use.

The base of the computer box are 'feet' - shaped like Goofy's shoes. It could hold a power supply in one and different ports in the other (like USB, memory card slots, etc.). The feet would also stabilize it so it would be less likely to fall over. 

For the drive, one could use a small hard drive or a small solid state one. They don't usually take up a lot of space. One could also operate off a SD card or a micro-SD card (both now have really large memory capacity). 

One could use a blue tooth keyboard and mouse since one would not have to connect either to the box or one could attach them to the USB ports. 

This is just me thinking out loud. I like to design things - most of which I never get around to making or doing. Perhaps one day I will get to create it. 






2024 / 02 / 08








A Better Disney Computer ? - part 2?

 

Here is a more detailed version of my earlier blog and design for a Mickey Mouse computer. 

They had Mickey Mouse computer before but I think it was boring and not very creative. I think they could have gotten a little more creative than adding a Mickey Mouse frame around a regular small desktop computer.

My idea for one would be an all in one design. The box would be round with mouse ears on top (the ears being speakers on either side). There would be feet at the bottom to keep it steady. Perhaps a mouse shaped computer mouse and perhaps a Disney inspired keyboard. I think this would leave a possible camera for the space above the screen but with the frame / round box design.

I think the computer board could be a Raspberry Pi board, or one like the Mini ITX style boards. It is small enough that it could fit the case design above. 

The screen could be either an LCD or OLED screen; both of which would be thin (like those used in laptops computers) and would not take up much space. The screen would not have to be round but square and fit within the round box in front. 

I think a power supply could be located in one of the feet in the base and the other would have ports (USB, power, memory ports, etc. ). 

It would not need a space for an optical drive or a floppy drive since they are not being used in newer computers. It would need lots of USB ports or have blue tooth capabilities since both are very popular (but that could change) 

The above is just me 'thinking out loud'. It is my ideas on how it could have been better. Perhaps one day I could do it but I don't see it happening in the near future. I have lots of ideas and/or designs like this. 







2024 / 02 / 08