Cases for things: The Bus Pirate
A while ago I bought a Bus Pirate - a useful debugging tool, but it ships as a bare PCB. No case, no protection. So I decided to lasercut a layered case. I carefully measured the sizes of all connectors (remember to connect everything!) with calipers and modeled a simple layered case. It was cut from 4mm acrylic, because the mini-USB connector is exactly 4mm high.
It consists of a top sheet with cutouts for all the top connectors, a middle sheet with a cutout for the USB connector, another middle sheet for the PCB itself, a bottom sheet to close it off and a set of 'feet' to finish it off which also function as nuts to hold it all together.
All holes are 3mm to let an M3 bolt fit through easily, except for the feet and bottom sheet where the bolt screws in.
All the parts
Middle sheets
Top sheet
Putting it together
The end result
