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Ambi'Son closed wooden enclosure

Ambi'Son · Laser cutting · by Joseph Sardin

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A laser-cut wooden box, closed on every side, with the logo engraved underneath. It goes together without glue: the four sides have tabs held in the slots of the top and bottom plates, and four screws clamp everything onto spacers. A screwdriver opens it again.

From the outside, you can reach the PLAY button, the potentiometer, the USB stick, the microSD card, the power socket and the jack. The potentiometer is tightened onto the side with its nut: the wood takes the strain on the knob, not the solder joints. The Nano's USB socket stays hidden: to change the program, you open the box.

The bottom goes together like the open protection kit: under each corner, a screw passes through a 3D printed foot, which hides its head, and through the bottom plate, then tightens into a short spacer. The bottom has two elongated holes, one vertical and one horizontal, to screw the box to a wall or a piece of furniture and level it (board removed), and a cable hole for the terminal block wires. Overall size: 87.7 × 65 mm, 32.8 mm high with the feet, without the screw heads.

The files exist for two boards: the V14, whose sockets stop at the edge of the board, and the V14.1, whose sockets stick out past the edge. Each version fits on two sheets smaller than 150 × 150 mm, one for the plates and one for the sides, in SVG, DXF and PDF at 1:1 scale and for LightBurn (3 mm MDF or plywood). The recess engraved around the potentiometer, 0.8 mm deep, is set by a test on an offcut. The PLAY button is the one from the open protection kit: a 15 mm disc in 5 mm plywood, with the offcut of the opening glued on top. The dimensioned drawing of each version gives every measurement and the assembly order.

At a glance

For

Ambi'Son

Board versions

V14, V14.1

Technique

Laser cutting

Material

3 mm MDF or plywood; 5 mm plywood for the button; 3D printed feet (PLA or PETG)

You will also need

4 M3 nuts, one in each foot.
4 M3 spacers, 4 mm, male / female.
4 M3 spacers, 18 mm, male / female.
4 M3 screws, 6 mm long.
A little wood glue for the button.
2 wood screws to mount the box (optional).

Maker

Joseph Sardin

License

CC BY-SA 4.0

Download

Everything in a single ZIP file: photos, source files and a sheet saying who made it and under which license.

Source files

Have you built an enclosure for one of my boards? Send me your photos and files and I will add it, with your name.

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