Intro to Fabrication - Week 04

Making an enclosure:

For this assignment I made a small arcade controller using acrylic, the laser cutter, the joining method (with extra help of glue) in order to create the enclosure for the Arduino cable and the two arcade buttons. while the buttons and the cable got perfect results, I can still improve the joining method in future works, but I gut familiar with the power of the laser cutter which was very fun and helpful.

I started by designing a sketch of the controller taking into account the size of the breadboard buttons and buttons. I used a caliber and a ruler to do so.

I then made the joining design with Illustrator:

This is the final one after some trials and errors. it's not perfect but it was almost in the right measurements and good enough to combine.

I had some mistakes in the joining design that I tried fixing in several cuttings, and also micro mm issues that prevent the parts from completely clicking because of the kerf

some acrylic being cut

The hole for the cable

The buttons clicked inside perfectly. two circles are holding the arduino

Final result