All right, lots of presents arriving from USPS and UPS this week. Just went to OSH and Fry’s today, roamed the aisles and grabbed whatever I thought might be useful this weekend, a bunch of floppy drive cable connectors, heat shrink tubing, atx power supply extension cable, silver thermal adhesive, brackets. Ponoko final cases arrived :) The bamboo is a real beaut, a very dark blonde, have to see it in person. Looks like I messed up on the design of the lid, one part overhangs and I’ll need to cut it off for everything to fit together. H bridge holes look good.
Final word is — I can’t believe what a struggle it has been to find brackets to mount the aluminum block to the case. The smallest brackets I could find in my initial search were gargantuan 1″ ones, and after Home Depot, vark.com, amazon, google, bing, ebay, calling 3 stores in SF, walking to my local hardware store, Fry’s, lastly I went to OSH and found 3/4″ ones. Still too big, but might be able to be made to work. Definitely an interesting piece of the project for me, finding a lot of the sexier components was easy, even having the aluminum block made wasn’t too exciting. But finding brackets — impossible!!