pi based systems

[Pascal Hibon]

Sorry for the late response - I have not checked this forum in a bit.

In my build, I did not leave the top on the enclosure when I cut the angle for the front - I probably should have - but I had no trouble on my table saw with a composite blade, tilted to about 15 degrees. I clamped the box to the sliding guide on the table. I did have to de-burr the cut since the composite blade caused a bit of melting of the aluminum. I then cut the top of the box to match.

A band saw would be a much better approach for this sort of work, though.

Whit

I think that your composite blade was the issue. I used a blade for cutting aluminium and had no issues with melting aluminium.
The cut is very clean.

Keeping the top in the enclosure makes sure that the top has exactly the same dimensions as the rest of the enclosure. And the edge is also at the right angle.

But glad it worked out well for you.

[DomieMic65]

some pics from my rpi based setup

[carsten_h]

Here are some Pics of my last project.

That looks really great!

[*]Waveshare 4,3" HDMI touch display

As it is very small compared to the 7" display which I have here. Is it easy to control? Or do you often touch the wrong entry in a list?

[*]aluminum case from china

Do you have a link for it?

[*]a cnc milled front plate

Where did you got that?

[*]LMSTools[*]pikeyd

What for do you need those?

Many questions, I know. :-)

[sfraser]

Sorry for the blurry image. Basement sound system. Max2play imaged Pi3, with HifiBerry DAC with 7" screen. Outlook prepro , and a pile of vintage Brystons' providing the beef.

[piPlayer]

I built a mini boombox for my son with a Raspberry Pi Zero and a Pimoroni amp. The case is 3d printed.

Regards
PiPlayer

[Greg Erskine]

Great work!

[Howard Passman]

Nice...:-)

Howard

[piPlayer]

Thank You. My little son is thrilled too, he hears his goodnight story with it every evening.

[piPlayer]

Sorry, I completely overlooked the questions.
I hope the answers are not too late.

As it is very small compared to the 7" display which I have here. Is it easy to control? Or do you often touch the wrong entry in a list?

Input pens are included with the touchscreens, so operation works very well. I chose this display for cost reasons. If you have a little more budget, a bigger display is certainly not wrong.

Do you have a link for it?

Link

Where did you got that?

I work in a metal company with CNC machines. So I was able to make the front panel myself.

What for do you need those?

Pikeyd is used to convert the rotary encoder's pulses into keyboard commands for volume up and down. And I use LMS tools in a Python script to query the player status (play, pause, stop, etc.) from the LMS in order to control the LEDs.

Regards
PiPlayer

[carsten_h]

Sorry, I completely overlooked the questions.
I hope the answers are not too late.

No, they are not too late. Thank you!

I work in a metal company with CNC machines. So I was able to make the front panel myself.

Ok, that is great! It looks very good!

Pikeyd is used to convert the rotary encoder's pulses into keyboard commands for volume up and down

Ah, thank you!
I build a player in a plastic Smartipi enclosure which has no real place for a rotary encoder. But most of the time I am three meters away from it, so I am using an Ikea Symfonisk (E1744) ZigBee controller together with Home Assistant to control the piCorePlayer.