Screw Printing Project Boxes!! (when you don’t have to)

I enjoy designing project boxes in Fusion 360 for my tinkering, but man do I hate waiting on them to print.

I’ve got lights and mounting hardware ordered for my permanent Christmas/holiday lights as well as a couple of other odds and ends I’ll need to get them installed.

One thing I do already have is is the Dig-Uno controller set up with WLED, but needed to get an enclosure made for it. I’ve been playing around with printing a custom enclosure for it, but never could really get the holes on the Dig-Uno to line up.

I dug through my “toy box” and found a couple of nice project box I had bought for who knows what, but figured why not use them for this (since this will be my most expensive non-garden project to date – only the best right?)

I measured the mounting hole spacing on the inside, got the hole spacing fo Dig-Uno close enough and got the Dig-Uno mounted in the box. This is a sealed project box, and I really don’t want a lot of heat build up in the box, so I drilled out a vent hole in the lid, mounted a heat sink on top of the D1 Mini and printed a custom vent cover (image at top of this post).

Once I get the mounting position and orientation figured out, I’ll drill additional vent holes in the side of the enclosure.

Oh, and my table, as usual is a mess. Fortunately, the only thing I spilled everywhere was the box of heat sinks!