electronic box

[Emmanuel]

Hello
When I make my electronic stuff I often have a problem to get a box to put
it in : They are expensive an often inapropriate.
So I prefer to use a video tape box/cover (I don't now the exact
translation) and tune it to receive my electronic card, switches, screens,
buttons ,etc. It is inexpensive, and easy to modify.

So I am thinking of designing a plastic video tape cover like specially
designed for electronic integration of cards, components, switches,
batteriess, fan, cables, plugs, and other electronic stuff

I wonder if there is a market for this. Would you, hobbist, interested by
such a cheap cover to include all you stuff easily ?

The box would have rails to guide european format cards, pre drilled holes
for fixation, a 9V and 4x1.5v reserved space to place your batteries and so
on.

Thank you for you answers even if not interested.

Emmanuel

 

[Michael Black]

Hello
When I make my electronic stuff I often have a problem to get a box to put
it in : They are expensive an often inapropriate.
So I prefer to use a video tape box/cover (I don't now the exact
translation) and tune it to receive my electronic card, switches, screens,
buttons ,etc. It is inexpensive, and easy to modify.

You can build in tin cans, use a piece of copper circuit board as the
front panel. You can make boxes out of that circuit board, works quite
nicely. You can pull power supplies out of computers, the boxes they are
in are often more valuable than the power supply (given there are so many,
given you don't usually need so much power) again slap a piece of circuit
board over the front to make a clean panel.

Watch for satellite receivers being tossed out. Those make a deep but
short box for reuse. Cable converters are plentiful in the garbage or
at garage sales, though I don't find the boxes too appealing for reuse.
Any piece of equipment pulled from the garbage has potential to be reused
as a case, cassette decks, car radios, stereo amplifers and receivers.
We're bound to start seeing DVD players in the garbage, and some of those
can offer up quite nice and small cases. VCRs for larger ones, and if
you're lucky the power supply is on a separate board so you can keep it
intact to power something else (this holds true for a lot of consumer
items too).

Sometimes CD and DVD drives for computers have a full metal case when you
remove the plastic bits, and those can be used for cases.

One could even use computer cases, so easy to find tossed out, for even
larger projects.

Michael

 

[petrus bitbyter]

Hello
When I make my electronic stuff I often have a problem to get a box to
put it in : They are expensive an often inapropriate.
So I prefer to use a video tape box/cover (I don't now the exact
translation) and tune it to receive my electronic card, switches, screens,
buttons ,etc. It is inexpensive, and easy to modify.

So I am thinking of designing a plastic video tape cover like specially
designed for electronic integration of cards, components, switches,
batteriess, fan, cables, plugs, and other electronic stuff

I wonder if there is a market for this. Would you, hobbist, interested by
such a cheap cover to include all you stuff easily ?

The box would have rails to guide european format cards, pre drilled holes
for fixation, a 9V and 4x1.5v reserved space to place your batteries and
so on.

Thank you for you answers even if not interested.

Emmanuel

Don't think so. For hobby electronics there are plenty other possibilities.
Only for small series in a project for instance you may need uniform boxes.
Besides, the old video tape boxes I have, are too weak and/or too brittle to
make a real good electronics enclosure.

petrus bitbyter

 

[Don McKenzie]

Hello
When I make my electronic stuff I often have a problem to get a box to put
it in : They are expensive an often inapropriate.

here are some interesting new boxes:
http://www.dontronics-shop.com/cases-enclosures.html

Cheers Don...




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