Hack aluminum enclosure

High-quality custom aluminum enclosure for the HackRF One. Includes all hardware required for finished assembly. Please be sure to select your desired color below! SKU: Sign up for price alert. Orders usually shipped in 1 business day! Read more Free shipping, always. Any order, anywhere. These custom, high-quality aluminum enclosures are fabricated for all current production versions of the HackRF One. They will not only provide improved EMI shielding, but also provide fantastic physical protection for your investment.

Two color options are available - matte black and silver. Color matched screws are of course included. A philips screwdriver is required for assembly. So here again. Received the missing screws free of charge from nooelec and now the case closes fine. I model each piece as a separate piece of wood as a module. For example, you cannot tell the difference between two pieces that butt together exactly, and two pieces that overlap each other by 18mm. So I make each piece each module with every dimension.

So I know if it looks right in the drawing including 0. And it worked! A key difference seems to be that this here does not need bending, just cutting and milling, plus there are no visible screws from the front and back in this model.

No, nothing at all is bent. All nice rectangles of sheet metal. The slots in the sides enable 1. This looks like a great tool for any one-off chassis or housing but you need to step up for any type of small scale production.

Protocase has an excellent online design tool and a series of starter housing shapes that are easy to work with. It is best to source acrylic from a local shop that can also cut it to size with the right tools for a reasonable price, but it is still far from being a cheap material. But what newcomers might not realize is that the cost of the printer itself is only part of your initial investment.

Not sure he wanted to spend the money on a dedicated machine just yet, [Chris Chimienti] decided to take an unusual approach and modify one of his filament-based 3D printers to handle wash and cure duty. The curing part is easy enough to understand, but how does it do the washing?

Custom Python software is used to generate G-code that commands the printer to dip the part in the alcohol and swish it back and forth to give it a good rinse. Once the specified time has elapsed, the printer raises the part up into the enclosure and kicks on the LEDs to begin the next phase of the process.

It seems as though the case was indeed an afterthought, but rather than throwing it in a nondescript black project enclosure it was decided to turn the idea of a project enclosure itself inside-out.

The radio build is based on an SI radio receiver which is a fairly common radio module and is easily adaptable. It needs a microcontroller to run though, so a Maple STM32 platform was chosen to do all of the heavy lifting. The build includes a screen, some custom analog controls, and a small class D audio amplifier, but this is the point it begins to earn its name: the Chaos Radio. While playing around with the project design in CAD, a normal design seemed too bland so one was chosen which makes the radio look like the parts are exploding outward from what would have been a more traditional-style enclosure.

While the project includes a functioning radio receiver, we have to complement the creator for the interesting display style for this particular set of hardware. It can get boring designing the same project enclosures time after time, so anything to shake things up is often welcomed especially when it puts all of the radio components on display like this.

At first glance it may look as though slapping a rectangle of aluminum extrusion around a display is all it takes, there is also the mounting and management of wiring, power supply, and possibly a Raspberry Pi to deal with. The process of building an attractive frame also has a few hidden gotchas that can be avoided with a bit of careful planning. It may not be much, but it can be the difference between an ideal fit, and something that looks like a bit of a hack job.