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- From: langston@memstvx1.memst.edu (Mark C. Langston)
- Newsgroups: comp.robotics
- Subject: Cases for miniboard?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.014715.4140@memstvx1.memst.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 01:47:15 -0600
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- Organization: Memphis State University
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- I was wondering if anyone out there has come up with a good functional,
- modular-type casing for the miniboard that could be made from household
- products. I was gonna use a cassettetape case, and still might, but
- the rj11 jacs as well as the perihrial ports extend just a bit too far
- to actually fit inside the case, so a lot of cutting is necessary. Besides,
- since the board is so small, it needs a bit of padding inside the case.
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- What I'd really be interested in is a form of casing that would provide
- a stable mount for the board, allow access to all the ports, and still be
- seamless enough to act as a nice, pocket-sized 'modular' control unit for
- porting among various operational platforms. (e.g., I can slide it out of
- a robot chassis, pop it into a desktop-cpu tethered sensor array, or into
- a 3-degree of freedom arm, and vise versa, with my bigest handling worries
- being (un)plugging everything. The cassette case is still a viable idea, I
- just don't like having to saw all those holes :-). Isn't there any other
- kind of readily accessable casing, a little smaller and a littler higher
- (like only 1/ to 1/4" higher...and I refuse to mount it in one of those
- ugly blue project boxes from Radio Schlock...)?
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- Now that I think of it, perhaps one of those travel soap dish/cases may work
- ....but, aargh! Those tacky pastel colors!
-
- Just curious,
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