MIDIBox SID Basic Enclosure Ideas

[toneburst]

Anyone have any cool ideas for enclosures for a 'SIDBox Uno' with a Step A interface (ie LCD, 5 buttons and an encoder)? I'm currently thinking white plastic, but want something a bit more exciting than a bog-standard ABS project box. I'd also prefer to be able to drill holes etc. myself with hand-tools, so that effectively rules-out aluminium boxes, I think. Anyone any ideas/suppliers I could try?

I'm UK-based, incidentally.

Alex

http://www.toneburst.net

[th0mas]

I've had good luck looking at junk shops for old electronic gear.  My SID (photos soon, it's almost done) is in a Cable TV channel changer case (which is annoying as hell, dremeling metal = bad).  For my next projects I found two SEGA Master units that are going to rock, they have a very neat sloped case design that's perfect for a desktop synth unit.

[toneburst]

cheers for your reply th0mas,

cool! I was looking for something with a sloping front-panel too. I have a Novation Nova desktop synth which comes in a nice handy case http://www.vintagesynth.com/index2.html (and is incidentally also a really nice synth). I was thinking more of getting some sort of new case or project box for it though. I've been looking at some suppliers and some of the prices seem a little OTT. Like £40+for slope-top keyboard-style ABS boxes.....

Alex

http://www.toneburst.net