# RTR project enclosure

**URL:** <https://community.sparkfun.com/t/rtr-project-enclosure/10527>\
**Category:** New Product Ideas\
**Created:** [March 21, 2009, 9:44pm UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/rtr-project-enclosure/10527 "2009-03-21T21:44:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![JJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@JJ](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/JJ)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 9:44pm UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/rtr-project-enclosure/10527/1 "2009-03-21T21:44:26Z")

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I’d love a predrilled enclosure kit. Precut ports for a 16x2/20x2 LCD, serial, RJ-45, USB, SD card slot, DC jack, etc. Supply covers for unused ports. Sell panel mount sockets and connectors and the needed cabling to hook them up to select boards. Make a few different size enclosures to match the different ARM/AVR boards.

Yeah, I can do it myself - but it’s really tedious to make cables and I never really seem to manage to make a neat job dremeling shapes like RJ-45. Sell it to me all in a single bag as a reusable prototyping kit - enclosure, covers, connectors, cables, etc.

:idea:

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**Author:** ![butcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f08c70/32.png) [@butcher](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/butcher)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 12:55pm UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/rtr-project-enclosure/10527/2 "2009-03-23T12:55:14Z")

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…take a SMT UBW (I love those things, thanks Brian), mount it on PRT-00137 (small breadboard) and put it in a built-to-fit enclosure. Make a cutout for the USB connector, maybe even riser buttons for the PRG and RESET switches. I just used UBW to build a IR receiver for my HTPC, mounted on the Radio Shack version of your breadboard; I’d buy one of thes boxes just for that, and another for a model railroading project I’m contemplating.

This sort of enclosure would let us folk who are building one-offs that don’t warrant a PCB to encase them nicely…

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**Author:** ![Polux\_rsv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b5e925/32.png) [@Polux\_rsv](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/Polux_rsv)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 2:25pm UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/rtr-project-enclosure/10527/3 "2009-03-23T14:25:06Z")

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Check chip45 products.

[http://www.chip45.com/index.pl?page=SavvyBOX&lang=en](http://www.chip45.com/index.pl?page=SavvyBOX&lang=en)

Angelo