A couple of things I picked up from my local Asda recently are great Pandora accessories. (Said local Asda is fairly large and is an open-24h one. I have no idea if either of these products are big-branch-only.)
First up, a very suitable USB hub. (Yes, tested - definitely makes a wireless-mouse receiver work properly when usually it fails due to being the wrong flavour of USB). I think it cost around £7, was blister-packed and somewhere on a shelf-end in the computer/audio-video area - near the digital cameras and inkjet ink cartridges and suchlike.
The other thing I picked up was a case. Also inexpensive, somewhere around £7 I believe.
You may be thinking to yourself, "but Buxton, all the DS cases around now are sized for the DS Lite / DSi, which means they're too small for a Pandora."
And you'd be right.
But, this one is only unsuitable due to the size of that inner super-padded pocket. Easily fixed with a sturdy pair of scissors! (Cut down the side-edges of the pouch.)
It fits!
You won't be able to close the velcro on that inner pouch any more, but it reaches round well enough to offer pretty good protection apart from leaving the corners a little exposed.
The outer zip still closes pretty easily, and the outer shell is padded too so I'm happy with the amount of protection this would offer - certainly good enough for "keep it safe within a backpack" sort of good.
While I'm dumping tons of photos, here's the tags off the case so you can figure out if it's the same one I bought:
(post edited: realised I should use an image-host that I know will allow hotlinks, rehosted the images.)
First up, a very suitable USB hub. (Yes, tested - definitely makes a wireless-mouse receiver work properly when usually it fails due to being the wrong flavour of USB). I think it cost around £7, was blister-packed and somewhere on a shelf-end in the computer/audio-video area - near the digital cameras and inkjet ink cartridges and suchlike.
The other thing I picked up was a case. Also inexpensive, somewhere around £7 I believe.
You may be thinking to yourself, "but Buxton, all the DS cases around now are sized for the DS Lite / DSi, which means they're too small for a Pandora."
And you'd be right.
But, this one is only unsuitable due to the size of that inner super-padded pocket. Easily fixed with a sturdy pair of scissors! (Cut down the side-edges of the pouch.)
It fits!
You won't be able to close the velcro on that inner pouch any more, but it reaches round well enough to offer pretty good protection apart from leaving the corners a little exposed.
The outer zip still closes pretty easily, and the outer shell is padded too so I'm happy with the amount of protection this would offer - certainly good enough for "keep it safe within a backpack" sort of good.
While I'm dumping tons of photos, here's the tags off the case so you can figure out if it's the same one I bought:
(post edited: realised I should use an image-host that I know will allow hotlinks, rehosted the images.)
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