Hinged Locking Electronics Enclosure

prusaprinters

<p>Simple hinged box designed to house a half-size breadboard, mini breadboard, and a 20x4 LCD with Adafruit backpack.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I used the awesome print in place mini hinges from E. Soderburg which can be found here:&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.printables.com/model/124967-print-in-place-mini-gear-hinge-assortment">https://www.printables.com/model/124967-print-in-place-mini-gear-hinge-assortment</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I'm using this enclosure to house a raspberry pi pico which runs a simple circuitpython script to monitor the temperature and humidity of my kitchen herb grow house and display it on the LCD. &nbsp;It works nicely to prevent little fingers from getting to the electronics.</p><p>I did not model mounting holes into the design and so I just drilled holes in post and secured it to the metal wire shelf with zip ties. I included the .step so you can make your own adjustments as needed. As a note, the pegs which secure the half size breadboard in place could use some adjusting, but the breadboard happened to friction fit quite nicely in my case so I left them as is.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I printed the Door in PETg with a 0.8mm extrusion width on a 0.6mm nozzle, and the main box at a 0.6mm extrusion width on a 0.4mm nozzle. I'm sure a 0.4mm width / nozzle will be fine, it will just take longer.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Required hardware:</p><ul><li>Hinges and hinge mounts: M3 screws.</li><li>LCD is mounted with M2 screws.</li><li>Door is “Locked” with a single M4 screw.</li></ul><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Link to Github repo for project:</p><p>https://github.com/csn495/Grow-House</p>