Now that everything is sorted out, time to assemble the enclosure. I really needed to be sure everything was working the way I planned, because I will be glueing this thing completely shut. So I only have one shot to get it right. It was a big pain in the ass to get it all in, to be honest. It was designed to be as compact as possible, so I had limited inside-real estate and there were a few times I actually feared I wouldn’t be able to pull it off. But after some convincing with my dremel, I eventually got everything to fit 😉

I took pictures every few hours. Yeah it took THAT long… This has in fact been a 3-day project. One thing to always keep in mind is that some things must be assembled in a particular order, which had me retracing my steps multiple times.

So without further ado, here are the pictures:

Adding big fan and butt-piece (as I call it), and installing the large parts: arduino/gshield, 2 power supplies and my power PCB.

Main power connector, USB hub and front panel:

Casualty of misplacing my soldering iron :-), and wiring the lighted switches:

 

If I had a beard, the NSA would be watching me probably.

 

Testfitting the tablet:

Dremel to the rescue. I ended up replacing that fan with a 1 cm version to make space for the hold/resume/abort buttons:

Finally done with the wires, closing up shop:

Aaaand done:

One of the next days, i’ll do a bonafide photoshoot and make a video if it in action. I did check it though, and everything seems to work!

I’ll make all CAD files, electronics schematics and such available when I put everything in order.