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Adrian McEwen
@amcewen@mastodon.me.uk  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago
Today's updated design, laser-cut and assembled in its final form. It is sat inside the outer cardboard box. You can't see the saddlebag that's hidden at the bottom, nor the battery that's in the centre of the assembly. Some of the strip of RGB LEDs can be seen, which are looped around the battery box and holding-tabs; there are some velcro ties just about visible in that loop too. The top of the insert has a green (because the prototype board was more readily-to-hand than the production red versions) My Bike's Got LED circuit board on top of it, held in with cardboard tabs that fit through the PCBs mounting slots. Rounding it off is the @MCQN_Ltd@social.mcqn.com logo etched into the cardboard, and the instruction zine folded up and tucked above the battery
Today's updated design, laser-cut and assembled in its final form. It is sat inside the outer cardboard box. You can't see the saddlebag that's hidden at the bottom, nor the battery that's in the centre of the assembly. Some of the strip of RGB LEDs can be seen, which are looped around the battery box and holding-tabs; there are some velcro ties just about visible in that loop too. The top of the insert has a green (because the prototype board was more readily-to-hand than the production red versions) My Bike's Got LED circuit board on top of it, held in with cardboard tabs that fit through the PCBs mounting slots. Rounding it off is the @MCQN_Ltd@social.mcqn.com logo etched into the cardboard, and the instruction zine folded up and tucked above the battery
Today's updated design, laser-cut and assembled in its final form. It is sat inside the outer cardboard box. You can't see the saddlebag that's hidden at the bottom, nor the battery that's in the centre of the assembly. Some of the strip of RGB LEDs can be seen, which are looped around the battery box and holding-tabs; there are some velcro ties just about visible in that loop too. The top of the insert has a green (because the prototype board was more readily-to-hand than the production red versions) My Bike's Got LED circuit board on top of it, held in with cardboard tabs that fit through the PCBs mounting slots. Rounding it off is the @MCQN_Ltd@social.mcqn.com logo etched into the cardboard, and the instruction zine folded up and tucked above the battery
An unfolded box insert, laser-cut from brown corrugated cardboard, sits on a white table. The sheet of cardboard it was cut from can be seen off to the left. The insert is roughly in a cross-shape, with some three-sided rectangle cuts made into the centre of the cross. Those will fold up to hold the box the battery goes in. Three "arms" of the cross will fold down to form a void below the insert where the saddlebag goes; and the final "arm" folds back on itself to sit above the battery box, and has two fold-up tabs that will locate the My Bike's Got LED PCB.
An unfolded box insert, laser-cut from brown corrugated cardboard, sits on a white table. The sheet of cardboard it was cut from can be seen off to the left. The insert is roughly in a cross-shape, with some three-sided rectangle cuts made into the centre of the cross. Those will fold up to hold the box the battery goes in. Three "arms" of the cross will fold down to form a void below the insert where the saddlebag goes; and the final "arm" folds back on itself to sit above the battery box, and has two fold-up tabs that will locate the My Bike's Got LED PCB.
An unfolded box insert, laser-cut from brown corrugated cardboard, sits on a white table. The sheet of cardboard it was cut from can be seen off to the left. The insert is roughly in a cross-shape, with some three-sided rectangle cuts made into the centre of the cross. Those will fold up to hold the box the battery goes in. Three "arms" of the cross will fold down to form a void below the insert where the saddlebag goes; and the final "arm" folds back on itself to sit above the battery box, and has two fold-up tabs that will locate the My Bike's Got LED PCB.
Adrian McEwen
@amcewen@mastodon.me.uk  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago
Today's updated design, laser-cut and assembled in its final form. It is sat inside the outer cardboard box. You can't see the saddlebag that's hidden at the bottom, nor the battery that's in the centre of the assembly. Some of the strip of RGB LEDs can be seen, which are looped around the battery box and holding-tabs; there are some velcro ties just about visible in that loop too. The top of the insert has a green (because the prototype board was more readily-to-hand than the production red versions) My Bike's Got LED circuit board on top of it, held in with cardboard tabs that fit through the PCBs mounting slots. Rounding it off is the @MCQN_Ltd@social.mcqn.com logo etched into the cardboard, and the instruction zine folded up and tucked above the battery
Today's updated design, laser-cut and assembled in its final form. It is sat inside the outer cardboard box. You can't see the saddlebag that's hidden at the bottom, nor the battery that's in the centre of the assembly. Some of the strip of RGB LEDs can be seen, which are looped around the battery box and holding-tabs; there are some velcro ties just about visible in that loop too. The top of the insert has a green (because the prototype board was more readily-to-hand than the production red versions) My Bike's Got LED circuit board on top of it, held in with cardboard tabs that fit through the PCBs mounting slots. Rounding it off is the @MCQN_Ltd@social.mcqn.com logo etched into the cardboard, and the instruction zine folded up and tucked above the battery
Today's updated design, laser-cut and assembled in its final form. It is sat inside the outer cardboard box. You can't see the saddlebag that's hidden at the bottom, nor the battery that's in the centre of the assembly. Some of the strip of RGB LEDs can be seen, which are looped around the battery box and holding-tabs; there are some velcro ties just about visible in that loop too. The top of the insert has a green (because the prototype board was more readily-to-hand than the production red versions) My Bike's Got LED circuit board on top of it, held in with cardboard tabs that fit through the PCBs mounting slots. Rounding it off is the @MCQN_Ltd@social.mcqn.com logo etched into the cardboard, and the instruction zine folded up and tucked above the battery
An unfolded box insert, laser-cut from brown corrugated cardboard, sits on a white table. The sheet of cardboard it was cut from can be seen off to the left. The insert is roughly in a cross-shape, with some three-sided rectangle cuts made into the centre of the cross. Those will fold up to hold the box the battery goes in. Three "arms" of the cross will fold down to form a void below the insert where the saddlebag goes; and the final "arm" folds back on itself to sit above the battery box, and has two fold-up tabs that will locate the My Bike's Got LED PCB.
An unfolded box insert, laser-cut from brown corrugated cardboard, sits on a white table. The sheet of cardboard it was cut from can be seen off to the left. The insert is roughly in a cross-shape, with some three-sided rectangle cuts made into the centre of the cross. Those will fold up to hold the box the battery goes in. Three "arms" of the cross will fold down to form a void below the insert where the saddlebag goes; and the final "arm" folds back on itself to sit above the battery box, and has two fold-up tabs that will locate the My Bike's Got LED PCB.
An unfolded box insert, laser-cut from brown corrugated cardboard, sits on a white table. The sheet of cardboard it was cut from can be seen off to the left. The insert is roughly in a cross-shape, with some three-sided rectangle cuts made into the centre of the cross. Those will fold up to hold the box the battery goes in. Three "arms" of the cross will fold down to form a void below the insert where the saddlebag goes; and the final "arm" folds back on itself to sit above the battery box, and has two fold-up tabs that will locate the My Bike's Got LED PCB.
Adrian McEwen
@amcewen@mastodon.me.uk  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
A screengrab of FreeCAD showing a red PCB (exported from Kicad, so missing a few components but has the important bits for this design work) sat on a folded cardboard (though it's not totally clear from the render that that's the case) insert with a green rectangular box (which will also be cardboard in reality, and so not green, but it makes it easier to differentiate it) sandwiched in between. The cardboard insert is rectangular with flaps folded down at either side, providing a void below it for a saddlebag (not pictured, that's far too tricky for me to bother drawing up in CAD!); the (green) battery box sits on top of that; and then a flap at the front of the insert folds up and round to wrap the battery box and provide a platform for the red PCB to sit on.
A screengrab of FreeCAD showing a red PCB (exported from Kicad, so missing a few components but has the important bits for this design work) sat on a folded cardboard (though it's not totally clear from the render that that's the case) insert with a green rectangular box (which will also be cardboard in reality, and so not green, but it makes it easier to differentiate it) sandwiched in between. The cardboard insert is rectangular with flaps folded down at either side, providing a void below it for a saddlebag (not pictured, that's far too tricky for me to bother drawing up in CAD!); the (green) battery box sits on top of that; and then a flap at the front of the insert folds up and round to wrap the battery box and provide a platform for the red PCB to sit on.
A screengrab of FreeCAD showing a red PCB (exported from Kicad, so missing a few components but has the important bits for this design work) sat on a folded cardboard (though it's not totally clear from the render that that's the case) insert with a green rectangular box (which will also be cardboard in reality, and so not green, but it makes it easier to differentiate it) sandwiched in between. The cardboard insert is rectangular with flaps folded down at either side, providing a void below it for a saddlebag (not pictured, that's far too tricky for me to bother drawing up in CAD!); the (green) battery box sits on top of that; and then a flap at the front of the insert folds up and round to wrap the battery box and provide a platform for the red PCB to sit on.
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