RFIDeas RDR-805H1AKU Contactless Card Reader Snap-In Box / Cover

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If necessity is the mother of invention, then emergency is surely its father. Needing to deploy a contactless card reader for a mobile health screening, but having no housing with which to do it, a coworker asked if I could 3D print something. It was all downhill from there. Some notes and observations. First, this is a really tight fit to the reader panel. I mean really tight. Although the interior lip does allow the retention clips to engage, this is basically a friction fit setup, so you'll probably have to press harder to insert the reader than you initially feel comfortable doing. You might benefit from gently heating the print with a hair dryer before trying to insert the reader. The opening in the back allows the retention clips to be disengaged, and the reader to be pushed out of the housing. You can feed the USB cable either out the back or through the pass-through in the bottom, depending on your application. This is one of those projects where the working scale was both fun and a little infuriating. Some of the bits are only a millimeter or two, and I was genuinely surprised when the first print fit exactly. I was also pleased with the way the details turned out, particularly given the annoying difficulty doing chamfers and fillets in TinkerCAD. Anyway, I know this is a pretty specialized application, but hopefully someone else can make use of it.