I got my Core the other day. Here’s a first draft of a case/tray/enclosure for it, for while I’m working out patches for it. (It’ll end up behind a Eurorack panel at some point, I imagine.)
Changes will be made. The gap between the edge of the board and the wall is too big, so I’ll tighten the tolerance, and the holes for the screws are blind so when screwed down it creates marks on the base. I’ll open them out in the next version. I might also build in 3.5mm stereo jacks seeing as they’re always going to get used…
Any thoughts/suggestions? Once I’m happy with it I’ll be sharing the files so good ideas that work for me will be included.
Oh, good idea. I’ll try a couple of things when I’m back in my office! I’ll also make sure there’s enough space for a variety of styles of 3.5mm jacks to be mounted.
I’ve tried to make all the cutouts big enough to see the labels on the PCB (where there’s labels to see). I’ll tweak a couple of the cutout sizes a little more just to satisfy myself.
It’s sized for Thonkiconn jacks but I’m more likely to use the other one here (because it’s stereo and better suited for panel mounting). The whole thing is held together by screwing through the mounting holes, as is probably obvious here! The central window of the bump cover allows for a 6x1 connector to go through, so it can loop over and plug into the header because that made most sense to me and my plans.
If this were its forever home I’d have used a 90 degree header so that it could all be self contained, but I just wanted something to provide protection. I also wanted to make sure the buttons were accessible and that my old eyes could see the headers and enough of the labels to know what I’m plugging a wire into, hence the top part being closer to the PCB.
You’ve got me wondering what a one-piece top would be like though, because there’s only about 3mm difference. Time to find out! The wires will still have to come out and go back in but that can’t be helped without making it much bigger or removing the header (that’s not going to happen).
That looks pretty cool. Are you going to make the STL files available? I’d like to 3d print one to protects it till I make an Axo/Kso box for myself… Cheers, P
Nice one the tolerances are quite tight, I forgot to mention that. I modelled it around the 3D model of the board to get everything to line up perfectly - what a pro!
