alternative fully enclosed cases?

[kenyee]

Has anyone been able to find any alternative cases to the DP6037 case?
Specifically, I'm looking for one that's enclosed on most of it except for an opening for a couple of connectors on one side...

[arhi]

Has anyone been able to find any alternative cases to the DP6037 case?
Specifically, I'm looking for one that's enclosed on most of it except for an opening for a couple of connectors on one side...

check out shapeways, you can get a box for buspirate
bottom piece: http://www.shapeways.com/model/431530/c ... Box-search
top piece: http://www.shapeways.com/model/431532/c ... Box-search

check if it fits the version you have

if you dislike that bottom part has holes, just put a business card between pcb and bottom part and it's solved :D, search shapeways if there is maybe a newer version too

[Sleepwalker3]

Thanks Arhi, haven't seen those before.

You can likely make a variant of the SOB by simply cutting a thick section of acrylic for the middle section, like a sort of square doughnut. You could either keep the existing SOB design and put one doughnut either side of the PCB, or you could design a different setup with single doughnut that is bigger on the ID than the PCB, but the case would be a bit bigger (assuming you stuck with the same profile on the PCB). Of course you could just buy a plain plastic Zippy box from your local electronics store too ;)

[arhi]

guy who designed those is a forum member here (dsm) and his designs are really great. I have not tried the bus pirate (I do not really use bus pirate) but logic sniffer case works a treat :)

[ian]

guy who designed those is a forum member here (dsm) and his designs are really great

DSM didn't just design those cases, he influenced the whole DPXXYY standard PCB system :) His cases are great, but as Arhi said, be sure to make sure they match your EXACT version. We did flail around a lot about sizes for some time.

[arhi]

I had a feeling it was him who made you jump the pcb size standardization vagon :D.

[Sleepwalker3]

I was thinking of getting a BP at some stage, so it would be 3.6 or later 3.x not sure if those would fit. I can easily get cases cut anyway, so might just make a SOB case or something similar.

[arakis]

Has anyone been able to find any alternative cases to the DP6037 case?
Specifically, I'm looking for one that's enclosed on most of it except for an opening for a couple of connectors on one side...

There is a a laser cutting design that encloses all the sides.
viewtopic.php?f=63&t=4362

If you're interested I could post the SVG laser cutting files here...

[Sleepwalker3]

Sounds good to me arakis

[kenyee]

If you're interested I could post the SVG laser cutting files here...

Sure...please do. That actually looks like an interesting alternative. And please write up the quick tutorial you mentioned in the previous thread.
Hypothetically, you could just create a new DP6037 case by including the top/bottom sheet and a few of the rings you sandwich in between. Then you can just dremel cutouts in a few of the sheets and you'll have a case w/ custom openings. Or sell rings w/ cutouts appropriately sized for 3.5mm jacks, RJ11 jacks, pin headers, etc.

How much did your case end up costing?
5euro (around $10 US) doesn't sound bad at all for parts that may still be reusable.

[arakis]

Here are the files, the case ends up costing $30 for 5 cases, or $6 a case if you order through Seeeds Laser cutting service... This is for the BPv3.6 case.. so 4 different laser cut's are needed...

If you want to built a custom case, I suggest just getting the DP6037_SoB_v2_template.svg and DP6037_SoB_v2__ring_template.svg laser cut.. You can even arrange them both on a singe 10x10cm sheet but you'll have to change the difficulty into normal... so the end cost will be $12.5 for 5pcs of template and ring template, which is good for 2 cases, with leftovers...so it ends up being 6.25 a case... If you order 10pcs, it'll come to $25 and this is good for 5 cases at $5 a case...

If we ever get around to sell these, my guesstimate would be that we would sell them for ~$6-$8, but this is not on the agenda currently..

[arakis]

The tutorial is already up in our Tutorial section.. http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Dan ... _Tutorials
more specificly
http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Cus ... er_cutting

I'll add the original SU files to this post...

Also the dp6037 template is the exact same as the one used on our DP6037 case at seeed.. so all you need laser cut for a custom case is the ring templates....