Title: Bus Pirate in a Hammond 1551HBK case
Post by: Toley on February 16, 2011, 03:44:30 am
Post by: Toley on February 16, 2011, 03:44:30 am
My Bus Pirate is the one from Sparkfun and it fits perfectly inside the Hammond 1551HBK box that can be buy from Digi-key for around $2. I don't know if the original Pirate fit in it.
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I had to cut the posts inside so the screw cannot be used to close the box, I simply glued it with hot glue. The most challenging part (and the most interesting) was to made the SMD LEDs be seen from the outside of this black box. To do this, I made hole in the box and put some tooth of a transparent plastic fork and fix them with hot glue. They act like "Light Pipe". I have also color them with a black marker to prevent other LEDs to reflect inside.
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This is a simple trick I found and want to share.
The Bus Pirate is a great and very usefull tool I simply love it. Thank you for it.
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I had to cut the posts inside so the screw cannot be used to close the box, I simply glued it with hot glue. The most challenging part (and the most interesting) was to made the SMD LEDs be seen from the outside of this black box. To do this, I made hole in the box and put some tooth of a transparent plastic fork and fix them with hot glue. They act like "Light Pipe". I have also color them with a black marker to prevent other LEDs to reflect inside.
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This is a simple trick I found and want to share.
The Bus Pirate is a great and very usefull tool I simply love it. Thank you for it.
Title: Re: Bus Pirate in a Hammond 1551HBK case
Post by: rsdio on February 16, 2011, 09:12:16 am
Post by: rsdio on February 16, 2011, 09:12:16 am
[quote author="Toley"]The most challenging part (and the most interesting) was to made the SMD LEDs be seen from the outside of this black box. To do this, I made hole in the box and put some tooth of a transparent plastic fork and fix them with hot glue. They act like "Light Pipe". I have also color them with a black marker to prevent other LEDs to reflect inside.[/quote]
Nice! I think you could also shrink-wrap the fork tines if you happen to have some black shrink-tubing lying around. I assume the heat-shrink gun would not melt the fork tines, but it might.
Nice! I think you could also shrink-wrap the fork tines if you happen to have some black shrink-tubing lying around. I assume the heat-shrink gun would not melt the fork tines, but it might.