I am not an industrial designer, but I need to refresh some of the basics basics. I had gotten a driver board for some old LCD screens that were salvaged from a Lenovo W510 laptop which overheated. It was a great panel with high resolution and good black. The driver board was great and easy to use, but lacked any case. I have been using it as an extra display for configuring my Ordoid and Raspberry Pi’s prior to adding them to the cluster. I found it much handier that a full monitor for quick an easy configuration.
Now that I have a laser cutter I can make custom cases for project so I don’t have to leave things like the driver board on my desk like a hazard. I mainly use FreeCAD, but prefer OpenSCAD for 3D part creation . I have not yet reviewed or updated sheet metal fabrication and card stock box techniques into the CAD world. I had learned back in the mechanical drafting classes taken in my past. Yes I’m old enough to have taken pencil and paper drafting classes. I guess that will have to be updated. What to do to create plans for cases….
I headed over to MakerCase to build a box. If you have not used their tool it is super easy, and has great results as you can see. However, my ability to measure and line up the ports was lacking. I also missed the check box for “inside dimensions” so a bit tight. My only reservation about the tool is there is not size control on the output. That is a minor inconvenience that InkScape fixed right up.
I wonder if I should do a rev 0.2…. For another day….