3d Printed cases - UPDATE 1

That is one sweet little case. Add a few threaded inserts and you have a very flexible configurable setup. You oucould even design a lid and some hinges that protect your modules + patch in transport.

Not exactly the same but something very similar, i.e. these inserts that you can melt in place with a soldering iron in your 3D printed parts. The inserts on the AE cases are just bolts that are glued in place if I'm not mistaken.

I think it's impossible rn. Only if uModule bases inserted horizontally. Rn on TW store I see only horizontal case minimum 12U wide with PCB along it's width

ah.. but,  the horizontal bases in those cases ( poetry! :] )  are made up in sections of 4 .. so it is vaguely conceivable that Robert might sell you some of them at a reasonable price ( no doubt ) and you could make an 8 row case ?

btw, love the look of this white 8 row case , we just need white module faceplates to match

Do you know anyone tried to make Vinyl stickers for modules? I have a feeling that stickers will be peal off easily because of painted surface. To prevent that maybe just make stickers wider and wrap sides of faceplates so stickers also would be hold by neighbor modules. Dunno

i did think about making sticker sets for the Grains modules , so once you had decided what firmware to use the pin and pot labels would be clearly shown... but feijai  and his amazing endless new things makes that a bit hard to pin down

yes, i see what you mean,,,  and orientation of the mini modules on their side shouldn’t be much issue ... still, 2 of those 4mu plates would be even more neat ‘n’ tidy if you can get ‘em ..

Oscilloscope! on a module with no screen??   now how would that work? i’m off to yr repository to get the skinny!

wow... that looks pretty damn fine ,,, and a nice compact way to have 16u stowed!  just needs the handle-stand to take 5 or 6 AA batteries and they’ll be hammering yr door down for ‘em

Woaaaaah this is SUPER COOL!! Awesome work. I would love to try and print this once you share the models   opens up so many possibilities for cool case colors as well.

Is the model parametric by any chance? Would be supercool to be able to enter how much 'U' space you want and have the width of the case change (I'm not super good at this myself, so I'm not 100% sure how one would deal with making the screw spacing change nicely with this for example.)


By the way, I know that the Wonkystuff modules tend to be something like 1mm longer (length of PCB), I noticed when printing some boxes to 'store' some modules: the AE modules fitted perfectly, the Wonky ones didnt go in. However, the standoffs/'feet' of the modules are always in the same place, so as long as there is enough tolerance so the modules fit in, it should be no problem. 

Last thing: I know some people have been messing with 3D-printing frontplates as well. I imagine printing some new frontplates for such a homemade case can make really cool custom modulars! 

It's not parametric and I have no idea how to make it such (started using fusion 360 a week age 😅). But indeed that would be cool. I will check it and if it's not super complicated I will try to add this.

It have some tolerances (0,4mm summ vertically and horizontally) but I don't have any wonkystuff modules to test unfortunately. Stock modules actually a little smaller than sizes specified in docs and fitted pretty well with some space left (probably you can see on photos)