I wish hahaha
Why don’t you do a mini vacuum form?
Could set up some Legos or anything as a mold…and use that to cover it
Even better … Just get some Legos and build a box and super glue the Legos
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Super cool man!!!
I would love to share your photos with my friend that works for Legoland. She promotes the theme park in San Diego. She would get a kick out of seeing pictures.
No problem with that! I have some more of them.
They were quite astonished here as well in the Lego shop when they asked me what I’m going to build with it (they always ask!).
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Shared and Bravo mate…
I might have to build a mini millennium falcon to use as my enclosure… Lol
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That is SUPER cool! Why didn’t I think if that?! I like the vent pieces and charging ports. Now I’m gonna have to build one, just to try it. I can already envision some design ideas. Lol. Any tips for a new box builder? Did you actually super glue them together?
I remember that I took the strongest glue I could find. Something like this maybe: https://media2.supermagnete.de/docs/uhu_plus_endfest_300_eng.pdf
Also, I replaced those little “holder”-pieces on top of the box with strong neodym magnets to hold it in place, looks a little bit cleaner and it’s very easy to open.
Also you could find the specific needed parts like the slim one row bricks in eBay for a cheaper price (second hand and cleaned). To deal with the concave I used neoprene sheets, cut it in pieces to fill the gaps and also glued it together with a more flexible glue.
Btw, I use those neodym magnets for all my boxes on the boards to hold them in place, it works just perfect! But of course the components have to be mounted on a base plate to make the box lighter and easily removable.
@elkick I’ve got a ton of oddly shaped legos that could make for an interesting design. And you use magnets to hold the enclosure to the board? I know those neodymium magnets are super strong, but I would be scared of them coming loose for any reason and ruining my day. I do like the potential ease of removing the whole enclosure quickly though. What size and quantity of magnets do you use? Are there any other physical components holding the box in place?
With the Lego box I used an additional tiny velcro strip on front an back side, but removed it later on, since there was no failure. Even if the top plate would have fallen off it wouldn’t have caused big damages since everything is mounted on that base plate.
With the other boards I use the strongest magnets I could find here, they are really strong - 4 of them on the long side of the box, 3 of them on the shorter sides. I think it was this shop: https://www.magnet-shop.com/
Additionally, I have one nut in the front and in the back of the box which can be pulled of by hand (looks like a tiny wheel, 1cm diameter, takes 5 seconds to unscrew them) for security.
Wait, so the box/base plate is bolted to the board and just the access plague is held on with magnets? Still, so many great ideas with the legos, magnets, Velcro and thumb screws. Got any more pics?
Yes, exactly. It’s like this: baseplate contains two slots where a velcro is put through under the entire baseplate, the ends hold the electronics & battery. The baseplate is glued (could also be bolted) to the deck, the velcro and neoprene acts dampening to the electronics.
So the content of the box is virtually tightly “hanging” in the box held by velcro and the cover plate is just mounted with magnets. This way the electronic parts are less affected by vibration.
Velcroed parts:
2 Nuts to remove the box: Another velcro solution, the box is bolted to the deck: Another older example for baseplates to mount stuff (I wouldn’t use that silly ESC anymore!
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This is amazing. (lego board)
It came this way, it’s a beercan brewster board (cruiser 30") and available in blue, green, red and silver.
Nice to mount things on those rails!
Thanks…love that blue color…
Ok back to the subject…VESC enclosure…
I wonder why they just don’t mass produce a plastic snap enclosure…something like you put on travel toothbrushes?
Or something like this?
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I’m working on something like that. I can lasercut plexi (all thicknesses) at uni. Give me a sec i’ll upload it, I can use some feedback for nice features for example.
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The front and backplates have extra plates to clamp the cables coming out of the vesc. That’s the main reason I made this, I dislike the fact that the motor cables can tug on the VESC solder joints when inside the enclosure. Any other features or suggestions that I can add? If people are interested I can produce them very cheaply. But right now it’s only for me unless there is some interest.
