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A few weeks back, while writing a report, I had it. The stroke of brilliance. I've always looked at my EZ-b as a fragile, I find that all electronic boards look fragile when they don't have a case or a housing that protects them. Eventhough they usually aren't, but I do.. So here comes the idea, a case for the EZ-b. A few hours of "Inventoring" and mesuring later:
I added all the holes you would need to plug in servo's and other things, but I also added a hole on top, so that you can add a fan to cool the heatsinks. Also I added a hole in the middle of the case. If I wanted to use an external communication system, like USB, Synapse, Xbee, WiFi, etc. And finally I added holes to the bottom of the case for easy mounting.
Last week I ordered it from ShapeWays, to have it 3D-printed and today it came in. Here and there some adjustments (it's always difficult to design something for an object if you don't have all dimensions or a CAD model of the object), threaded the holes made some spacers and taadaa:
Presenting the EZ-Case
It works, looks great and is easy to assemble.If anyone else likes it, wants one, you might be able to motivate(yell at me, "I want one!") me to design v2.0 that requires less "adjustments" ,is a little bit smaller and a few other things that I would change now I have my one.
Awesome, let me know how it works out and what you think of it.
I had some time left so I made a tutorial.
TheEZ-CaseTutorial.zip
I also made this: The EZ-Case order link For those who don't own a 3D-printer but still want an EZ-Case.
Thank You Guys so much. I looked on thingiverse but could not find it. Fortunately you posted the stl files and I downloaded them.
God Bless you guys. This is the Greatest forum in the whole world.
@MovieMaker- agreed!
+1 For this as well. I didn't even know it existed until now.
Oh woah, completely forgot I made this thread. Glad you all still like it
Will this work with the EZB 4? And: annyone in the community offering prints, or do I need to go through Shapeways?
Thanks!
The print files are for the version 3 EZB. There have been no new stl files created for a version 4 EZB.