Box/enclosures?
Box/enclosures? Posted on: 17.07.2011 by Lavette Zediker Hey guys. Been very impressed with all this controllerism for a long time - and I finally pulled myself together to build my first diy midi controller. It's an old eks xp-10 I want to modify. The jog feels good, but the buttons are really shitty - when I splitted it appart I saw why. The buttons are actually all attached to the same piece of plastic - No wonder why it worked like shit. So under them are tiny small buttons - And I started to detach them, and have soldered a few wires on them attached to 30mm arcade buttons. Tested it, and all seem to work. So the next thing i'm looking for is some kind of dekstop box to put it inside. As the circuit is very tiny, it will fit inside almost any box - Where do you guys find good basic enclosures? | |
| Lavette Zediker 17.07.2011 |
Originally Posted by rutierut
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| Lavette Zediker 17.07.2011 | Hey guys. Been very impressed with all this controllerism for a long time - and I finally pulled myself together to build my first diy midi controller. It's an old eks xp-10 I want to modify. The jog feels good, but the buttons are really shitty - when I splitted it appart I saw why. The buttons are actually all attached to the same piece of plastic - No wonder why it worked like shit. So under them are tiny small buttons - And I started to detach them, and have soldered a few wires on them attached to 30mm arcade buttons. Tested it, and all seem to work. So the next thing i'm looking for is some kind of dekstop box to put it inside. As the circuit is very tiny, it will fit inside almost any box - Where do you guys find good basic enclosures? |
| Lavette Zediker 17.07.2011 | Cool thanx, that was exactly what I was looking for. Will see how this homemade enclosure turns out, and if I fail doing it prob I now know a direction... |
| Lavette Zediker 17.07.2011 |
Originally Posted by rutierut
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| Geri Krieger 17.07.2011 | http://www.hammondmfg.com/scpg.htm That's their site if you wanna see what they've got. |
| Geri Krieger 17.07.2011 | Ha yeah I know what you mean, it's a mess! I was looking into building my own all in one midi controller recently until the OHMrgb came out with the extension jacks. Now I reckon I'll just build a smaller unit I can connect to the brain. The ones I like most are the hammond ones. Their site's not too bad and you can always just search by manufacturer on mouser to find prices and order. These are the ones I've got my eye on... Sloped ones are pretty cool too... I'm not too hot on CAD or have any idea how difficult it is to drill through steel or alu but I see with the flat ones at least they come without a bottom and I reckon you could put a sheet of acrylic on there and use it the other way round which might look cool (an ebay acrylic seller offers to mill or route in the small print, can't find it just now). There's always the plastic enclosures too, but my thirst for the vintage synth look may be too much. Hope that helps, let us know how you get on! |
| Era Roka 17.07.2011 | Please post some pictues! And yeah mouser has got the most boxes but they've a terrible search function. |
| Geri Krieger 17.07.2011 | Mouser usually has some cool enclosures. |
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