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3d Printed Enclosure: First Draft Issues

A project log for Stylish!

A most stylish wearable music synthesizer! A real stylus based monophonic music synthesizer built into a giant trucker belt buckle!

t-b-trzepaczT. B. Trzepacz 10/07/2018 at 14:050 Comments

So, 22 hours later, I've got my 1st draft 3d printed enclosure! I knew it was going to have some problems, and I wasn't disappointed!

As it came off the 3d printer!


But if you don't look too closely, it does look pretty!

The Tindie contest requirements say you should show your project inside and out, so here it is!


It... doesn't fit together as well as I'd like, I had to chop, chop, chop away a lot of stuff to get around all of the bodge wires and lumps of solder, etc. and even then it doesn't go together very well. 

When assembled with batteries installed, it works very strangely. The LED ring will either light dim red, or full bright white when the power switch is on. It will play, but it won't light up correctly. It works fine when USB or programming adaptor are installed. It ran fine on batteries for yesterday's case, so I can only imagine that the manhandling to put it in the case is disturbing some delicate connection somewhere. 

Anyway, things learned: 

  1. There should be a groove in the bottom part for the board to fit in. 
  2. There should be a much thicker edge around the board. 
  3. The groove in the top part that the board fits in is really hard to get support material out of. 
  4. The hole for the LED ring is way too small, and the tube is too tall. 
  5. The power switch hole isn't wide enough. 
  6. There should really be some holes or groves for the stylus, USB, and debugging connections.
  7. There should be some sort of mount for the battery.
  8. The speaker mounting ring really doesn't fit in the hole when printing, and really had to be chisled out. 
  9. he solder vias at the top of the keyboard cause things to ride up.

I thought I had to have another video done by 7am, but it turns out to be 7am on Monday. And it's Sunday. Who knew?

So I get to sleep before I try to make another video. Yay!

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