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[ultrajosh]

Right now there isn't one!   

[Eddie Lloyd]

Hopefully there will be soon! Josh, my boss just gave me the go-ahead to work on this, since it'll teach me more about the machine and wat it can do. I guess it can work in 3D as well, which sounds cool. I'll send you some ideas soon.

-E

[janijanietc]

What material are you dealing with?  wood/aluminum/etc...?

[ultrajosh]

Eddie, if you feel comfortable with it, you should post the case drawing you sent me, it's really nice.  And I'd like to hear what others think.

[XNDR]

It's always interesting to see what other people can come up with 

So Eddie, please post the drawings 

[janijanietc]

yes, would really LOVE to see them...

[g.p.macklin]

I also would like to see what you have cooking.

[ultrajosh]

Well, I don't know what happened to Eddie, hopefully he'll be back soon!

Meanwhile I've been working on a super-basic plexi case.  The idea is to have two square sheets of plexi held apart by standoffs, and bolts through the four corners of the Driver board hold everything together:

Here's the top plate:


And the bottom plate:


Here's an alternative top plate that marekbuk suggested.  It has a slot to allow the strip connectors to pass through to the circuit, and the strips are adhered right on top of this plate, rather than to a separate plexi sheet as in the previous layout.

This would be thinner and might look really cool:



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I know someone with a laser cutter who can cut the plexi but she needs the designs in vector format, like CorelDraw or Adobe Illustrator, but I have neither.  If anyone has these tools and can quickly convert these to vector graphics I could get them made up sooner than later.

Here are the files in .psd as well as .jpg: http://www.soundwidgets.com/stribe/case/

[ultrajosh]

   Thanks Eddie!  (now have them in vector format - should have some examples to try soon)

[ultrajosh]

Just to see, I ordered a version of this design in 1/8" aluminum from BigBlueSaw.  So if that works out well there will soon be 3 options for cases:

plexi "sandwich"
aluminum "sandwich"
butcher-block routed

[janijanietc]

are the edges on the aluminum rounded off?  fresh-cut metal edges are never a good thing...

[ultrajosh]

Aluminum is pretty soft, I imagine I can file off any sharp edges.

[ultrajosh]

Well, the aluminum sheets came today.  Here's a quick assembly with just some of the edges filed off.  This will look really nice polished, I bet.

[ultrajosh]

more pics here

[XNDR]

Nice pictures! I'm curious about how the frosted panels look when the stribe is turned on.. any chance to take a few pictures? I liked the effect with 5mm blue leds.