Go to your local Big Box hardware store (Home Depot, Lowes, Menards, Ace, …). Find a nice employee in the lumber section and ask for "Four cheap two-by-fours, and someone to cut them for you". Getting the boards cut in store saves you time,...
Have them cut the boards for you to these specs:Board #1 and 2: 20.75", then 20.75", then the remainder should be cut in half (will be 27.25" each, minus whatever is converted to sawdust)Board #3 and 4: Just saw these in half: 48" long.This will give...
Screw them together. See the Sketchup plan (attached). The 48" boards are obviously the "rails" and support posts. 20.75" boards should link the rails together to form front and back panels. Squaring things up may be a challenge,...
Add your gear. Use more wood screws to secure faceplates to the wooden posts. For small items like cable modems and wireless thingamajigs, you can put wood screws into the side and hang them (most of these have special slots, as if they were......
CLEAN UP YOUR WORKSPACEGather your componentsWe will start with the "multivibrator" or "Oscillator" circuit. It supplies an A.C. Waveform to the "T1" transformer. you can make a PCB or just solder the legs togetherIt's not a very complex circuit.First...
Component sources:Most items are commonly available, with the possible exceptions being the 63C09EP (be sure to get an 'E' type with external clock) and the Z8536 CIO. I obtained the CPU via eBay. The CIO might be a bit harder to find. It's not critical,...
make or find a pretty box. over build it.a round box is cool, but a bit of a painmake your box hard to open unless you have neat toolsthis box is planned for being epoxy and screwed to a wall outside