Hello,
Thanks Mark. Just to give some context to these files:
- This is a first draft. Even though Luke wrote he'd take care of it, I had already started the process with Mark last week. I didn't spend more than a couple of hours on this last night and I didn't calculate precise clearances, the PCB as per Luke's STL model will fit but there may be too much or not enough clearance along X and Y axes (X and Y being parallel to the ground).
- It requires 8 layers of 3mm wood panels, overall dimensions of casing (without screws) being 111mm wide by 115mm deep by 24mm high. Consequently the PCB is near flush to the front and rear of the casing.
- For 3 layers, the panels are separated into a left side and a right side. 4th and 5th layer (from bottom) are identical.
- If it was judged acceptable for the card reader to be exposed underneath the casing, the bottom layer could be removed to reduce the total number of layers to 7.
- The PCB board sits on the 2nd layer, not having seen any picture of this board I don't now if components protrude underneath it (I know nothing about electronics). It may not be viable to have it sit on a flat surface that way.
- There are 11 lasercut wood pieces. That's a lot. Is the layered design definitive (I guess that's what the backers will expect since that's what's shown on Crowd Supply), or could this be discarded in favour of a new design optimizing fabrication? A more classic box with dovetail joints may be less expensive, and allow more control on the fitting of the board. Something akin to
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91H9TOVowCL._SL1500_.jpg (but hopefully with better looks!)
Luke, I know you prefer working with OpenSCAD, I was able to export my FreeCAD file to .csg which is a format recognized by OpenSCAD, but the generated text file is over 1MB and contains a series of multmatrix and polyhedrons with an unmanageable number of coordinates. Let me know if you want to have a look at it anyway.
