Auditorium Test Platform protective enclosure

[pcb rookie]

Just finished assembling the Auditorium Test platform. It's going be a useful tool! Anyone have suggestions for an enclosure or bottom base to protect it?

 

[Stickman393]

Certainly!

It's got four holes in it that would be perfect for something like a 3mm brass PCB stand off. Or even the sticky back plastic versions.

At that point you could really use anything to mount it to...sheet aluminum, plywood, copper clad board, acrylic

 

[BuddytheReow]

You could try a rubber cabinet bumper. They’re cheap and removable if you don’t like em. Or try poster tack on a piece of finished wood. If moneys tight tape it to a few sheets of cardboard.

 

[Big Monk]

On my Protoboard, I used male/female metal PCB standoffs and bolted the male end to the board.

Then I screwed Wah feet into the female end.

I used 5/8” standoffs for the back and 1/4” for the front to give me a slight incline.

 

[Robert]

I just have adhesive rubber feet on the bottom of mine.

They get tossed around in anger regularly but are surviving quite well.

 

[fig]

I like the pogo-pin clip and the I/O power board for testing. I have a couple of them floating around. I was going to build out another protoboard when I heard that @Chuck D. Bones would send me one if I could build a time machine out of a muffin board. I turned the soldering iron off and grinned. Then I tuned it back on because....I was in the middle of something, but it was a cool moment...you had to be there. Long story short, I managed to actually build one, but BtR stole my schematic, breadboarded one, and wrote up a great tutorial in like 5 minutes....He then went back in time, and managed to put me off track from building one in the first place. Of course, this meant that he could never have built one either, so it too was erased....not like that cheesy Ahhnold flic, more like Marty vanishing from the picture.....nah.........more like that TZ when everyone starts forgetting the astronauts who recently returned fro space....bingo!

yeah...that pogo-pin kajigger is the trick.

 

[BuddytheReow]

Long story short, I managed to actually build one, but BtR stole my schematic, breadboarded one, and wrote up a great tutorial in like 5 minutes.

The secret is to have a polarized fix capacitor

I’m gonna hold off on Chucks contest for a while and let others enjoy the fun. Of course, most of the fun has been squashed after submitting (1, 2, 3,….) 8 circuits? Still, the possibilities are almost endless. I’m gonna turn my soldering iron for a while

 

[pcb rookie]

Adhesive rubber feet it is for now and I might do the standoff/underplate if I get my hands on a piece of acrylic down the road. Thanks for you suggestions.

@fig you should be allowed for a rematch.

 

[Mike52]

I'd go with a piece of MDF. They are really dainty things and could use a solid base when plugging chords into them. I use 9mm plastic PCB supports for legs. They need a block of wood to stick to to make them more stable.