Mini Commodore 64 1702 monitor with LED provision

cults3d

I printed up a miniature Commodore 64 for a coworker, and it turned out really well. This coworker has a thing for adding LEDs to his projects, as evident from other things I've printed for him, which include a menorah with 5mm LEDs and a tiny leg lamp from A Christmas Story. So when he saw the Commodore monitor, he started talking about hollowing out the model and putting in a 10mm LED to backlight the printout of the Commodore boot screen. Hollowing out the model wouldn't be that hard, but I couldn't help thinking - wouldn't it be better to modify the model to support the 10mm LED? I began with the original monitor model from the source, loaded the STLs into Sketchup, and started working on it. My goal was to make it printable with a bare minimum of supports, and I accomplished this. The only part that requires supports is the front, and that'll only be around the edges. The back can be printed with supports, but that flat spot is thin enough that any printer that can bridge reasonably well should be able to handle it without a problem. I also expanded the bezel trim for the front so that it's a light press fit - the original design had quite a bit of space around the edges, so it had to be glued into place. There's a small hole in the rear to route out the wires for the LED. Note: I've found that Sketchup is pretty weak at dealing with small details on the sub millimeter scale, so I take to modeling things in Sketchup using meters. I find it far less quirky, and when I export the STL, most software assumes I was using mm and it loads into your slicer no problem.