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   I was wondering if anyone out there has come up with a good functional,
modular-type casing for the miniboard that could be made from household
products.  I was gonna use a cassettetape case, and still might, but
the rj11 jacs as well as the perihrial ports extend just a bit too far
to actually fit inside the case, so a lot of cutting is necessary.  Besides,
since the board is so small, it needs a bit of padding inside the case.

  What I'd really be interested in is a form of casing that would provide
a stable mount for the board, allow access to all the ports, and still be
seamless enough to act as a nice, pocket-sized 'modular' control unit for
porting among various operational platforms.  (e.g., I can slide it out of
a robot chassis, pop it into a desktop-cpu tethered sensor array, or into
a 3-degree of freedom arm, and vise versa, with my bigest handling worries
being (un)plugging everything.  The cassette case is still a viable idea, I
just don't like having to saw all those holes :-).  Isn't there any other
kind of readily accessable casing, a little smaller and a littler higher
(like only 1/ to 1/4" higher...and I refuse to mount it in one of those
ugly blue project boxes from Radio Schlock...)?

Now that I think of it, perhaps one of those travel soap dish/cases may work
....but, aargh!  Those tacky pastel colors!

Just curious,

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