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Luminardo: Designing Enclosure

The idea of making enclosure fully out of acrylic panels was abandoned due to ‘squarish’ look of the final product. We really wanted to create something a little bit more stylish and this is why the most obvious choice was 3D printing. That way it was possible to make rounded corners and streamline shape. However, […]

The BlueButton – Assembling & Testing First Prototype

The PCBs eventually arrived, however, this time it was somewhat disappointing: instead of usual two weeks the manufacturing process along with the shipment took almost four weeks. The quality seems to be fine and no ‘gotchas’ have been found so far so hopefully soldering will go smoothly.

This is how the PCBs look like:

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VFD Color Filter Made of Plastic Glass

Stylish and professionally looking enclosures for DIY electronics is a known challenge for both beginners and advanced hobbysts. Custom made cases are either too expensive, too difficult/time consuming to build or the resulted forms are too primitive/ugly. Besides, electronics engineers usually are not exceptionally good at 3D designing and they tend to consider assembled and […]

Envisaging Case for Luminardo

Recently we have been busy working on new stylish case for Luminardo project. The challenge is to design something which would cost reasonable price and at the same time have modern look. Making cases of acrylic panels by laser cutting them is relatively inexpensive but all cases look kinda the same – like ugly boxes. […]

Case for Pilot Display

It is time to put our Pilot Display into a case. A box of appropriate size and shape has been found at Blacktown’s Jaycar store. The dimensions were almost ideal with only one problem – a battery compartment that prevented PCBA from fitting inside. It tuned out not to be a problem for us, using […]