[Lab] acrylic project boxes

Jean-Marc LeBlanc jeanmarc.leblanc at gmail.com
Tue Mar 8 11:09:04 EST 2011


Then you would need a switch like this
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gomezaddams/4418003324/
just kidding

Jean-Marc Le Blanc
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wrote their own device drivers?" Linus Torvalds




On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Andrew Plumb <andrew at plumb.org> wrote:
> You could also adapt PC water-cooling systems if you want something that
> looks "mad scientist".  Locally, RB Computing carries Thermaltake options:
> http://www.shoprbc.com/ca/shop/categoryProducts.php?category=137
> http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Category.aspx?C=1443
> Andrew.
> On 2011-03-08, at 10:49 AM, Jean-Marc LeBlanc wrote:
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> If they have large heat sinks on them then I would say it is important
> to keep the air circulating no matter what you make the box out of.
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> Jean-Marc Le Blanc
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> "Do you pine for the nice days of Minix-1.1, when men were men and
> wrote their own device drivers?" Linus Torvalds
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> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Darcy Whyte <darcy at siteware.com> wrote:
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> I don't know.
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> I'm planning on having lots of fans.
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> Is there a better choice for making boxes?
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> Perhaps I can come up with a rack mounting system or a stacking system.
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> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Jean-Marc LeBlanc
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> <jeanmarc.leblanc at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I don't see why not.  do the controllers produce allot of heat?
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> Jean-Marc Le Blanc
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> "Do you pine for the nice days of Minix-1.1, when men were men and
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> wrote their own device drivers?" Linus Torvalds
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> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 7:34 AM, Darcy Whyte <darcy at siteware.com> wrote:
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> Is there any reason not to use acrylic to make boxes for CNC
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> controllers?
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> I'm gong to have 7 CNC controllers with power supplies (three are
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> backup)
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> and that's a lot of wires so I need to start looking at keeping things
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> tidy.
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