I`m working intensively to finish the clock box this weekend. It turned out, as always, there is a lot more work involved than I was expecting. The case is made out of, of course, lasercut acrylic. The case design is very similar as I did for my Chronulator (Chronulator | Flickr’>http://www.flickr.com/photos/fibra/sets/72157605121536800)
This time I used Bison Plastic for glueing parts by advice of my laserman. It is very good glue. Much better than superglue as it gives you the time to position the parts unlike superglue.
I`ll post small pictures as there are alot of them. So, if you like to see it bigger visit my flickr page. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/fibra)
Those buttons just ain’t doing that lovely case justice though If we could just find cheap CNC for the rest of the world, and cheap CS components for you… Or… yaknow, cheap freight
You probably right about the buttons, but this whole unit is made mostly out of recycled parts and pieces of acrylic that I dug from the manufacturers scrap box, so it should be cheap at first place. I now somehow regret because not using some DIY illuminated buttons, but I couldnt afford it in this momment, and didnt wanted to wait for better times as with rest of the projects. I have too much unfinsished, boxless projects laying all around my house. And women… they just don`t have a sense for PCB art standing on a book shelfs. So I really wanted to finish this one as quickly as possible.
..yeah clean, but house isn`t. It took a lot of sanding and many layers of painting.The day was rainy and cold, so I had to do it in a house. And I made some mistakes, so I had to do more than I planed (trimming the opening on subpanels to fit the LCD properly). I prepared files for cutting too quickly without much checking. So, it could be cleaner.
Nice djembe! I’g guessing that you’ve managed to connect it to the clock-box wirelessly.
Thanks Goblinz. I get this djembe really cheap 25 EUR as it has crackle in top of body around the knot. It is really small and Im planing to seal it with some epoxy from inside. The problem is the hole is smaller than my hand, so Im afraid Ill need to ask my girlfriend to sacrifice, and try to apply some epoxy. I wouldnt like to took off the skin as I doubt I would I be able to put it back as it is now.
I dont know if it affects the sound and how much, but to me djembe already sounds good enough. But, Im not really a percussionist.
You are not far from truth, I`m actually planing to midify it, but not wirelessly. Some wireless MIDI interface would be really cool to have.
If we could just find cheap CNC for the rest of the world, and cheap CS components for you… Or… yaknow, cheap freight 
