STEP 5 – MAKE DESIGNNow you’ve got the overall dimensions you can produce your mimic. This can be done either by:Laser-cuting using a CAD file – this can be done on plywood or acrylic, the above design is translated to a package such as inkscape and...
It's time to build the case. For this, I disassembled the CD player enclosure and prepared the separate parts. The back panel Let's start with the back panel. Drilling some holes - tools available: a hand drill. Once all is drilled out, it looked like...
Building the boxFirst of all we need to make an enclosure. I decided to make my own cause I didn't find any online. I made mine in oak. I recommend that you don't make the box too small so you can fit the components inside. My box is 16cm deep, 16cm...
Take a 20 gallon storage tote. Using hot glue, fit mylar coated bubble wrap around the interior of the enclosure, and the interior of the cover.Cut insulation carefully to allow container to close easily.
When the junction box is roughly where you want it, collect a relay, and place it in the bottom of the junction box.Using self-drilling dry-wall screws, drill through the hole in the heat sink of the relay, through the junction box, and into the wood. ...
To get a good idea how we made the electrodes, you can read the project update entitled "The Hand Thingie". If you want to use the same sensing set up we used, this worked well. Any sort of Object that is fairly ergonomic and can have the...
Get yourself a box, and you put that stuff in the box.What I ended up doing here is mounting metal supports to the metal tripod pole. I then used lacing twine and laced the battery to those supports, the plastic bin is basically just sandwiched in there....
Optional (see #5, option of hard or soft enclosure): Make an enclosure out of a Hammond 1455N1602 case (Digikey part # HM980-ND). This case has plastic end panels which you can easily modify with a hot knife, file, etc. For the front panel you can print...
Optional (see #6 too, option of hard or soft enclosure): Use a 12" piece of 3" clear diameter heat shrink tubing to cover the board, the cut out the USB-mini connector with an X-acto knife, and mount rubber bumpers such as Digikey part # SJ5748-0-ND...
After some scrounging around I found a cheap axis laser housing with diode and driver board still intact! For me, this is a mirracle as most of the time, I usually disassemble things when I first get them.After I scrounged up the rest of the parts I...
Gather parts to build a system for your intended purpose:Research your system board & processor & be double or more sure it is supported. Number of PCIe, PCI should reflect what you want to run. Internal serial HEADER is preferable over DB9 on...
This instrument is primarily a MIDI device, so we need to build a MIDI out. There are two ways to do this (and over the course of this project I did one and then switched to the other):output MIDI via a 5 pin DIN connector output MIDI via USB (this is...
I borrowed an idea from my friend Mads Hobye for my enclosure. Mads founds these sleek boxes at the container store and used them to make project enclosures for the various musical instruments he's built. These boxes are particularly convenient because...
Bike ModuleWire up the bike side module. I made up a really straight forward picture for this:You can solder everything down to one of the mini perf boards to hold everything solid and mount it into the project enclosure like I did, or design your own...