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Prototype cleanup!

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 10/25/2018 at 13:230 Comments

So, the prototype was looking pretty decent, but it still had some noticeable holes around the LED ring, power switch, and the amplifier board.

Also, the belt synth should probably have a way to mount it on your belt.

I know, right?

So anyway, I spent a night doing CAD and 3d printing stuff.


I made the LED ring cover with flexible TPU/TPE/Ninjaflex filament . This allows me to have the cover flex to get around the ring and have some indents to lock the board and bezel in.

Printed the bezel in "natural" PLA filament. It turned out that all of the soldered vias on my homebrew 16 LED ring were pushing it up, so I ended up printing it again. That one also didn't fit, so I ended up going at it with nippers until it kinda fit. 

I also needed a cover for the amplifier board.

So I designed that.

I also needed to make an end for the switch and a plug for the hole in the case for the switch that is too big.

Hey, look here is a thing! This makes it sound like I didn't spend my entire working day on this. Rest assured that I'm STILL working on it.

Those colors sucked, so I reprinted in colors that match the existing case.

For some reason, the blue is less snug than the natural, so I had to use the natural white version of the switch.

But hey, I promised you a belt mount. Well, It kinda takes awhile to print, so you'll have to wait, but here is a cool render.

Anyway, see it Thursday at the Hackaday Meetup!


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