Arduino-Plex: Plexiglass Arduino Work Surface

I am still new to Arduino, but as I tinker I find it very difficult to keep my projects together. I use a Velleman solderless breadboard and an Arduino Mega board (I know, I made a mistake and bought a Chinese one. I have since bought an official Arduino Uno board). I do a lot of work at the kitchen table with a laptop because it is less dusty than the garage, but then everything needs to be boxed back up and put away again. Sometimes I leave my projects together, and sometimes I have to dismantle them to fit them back in a shoe box. I sometimes keep notes on a clipboard, which also worked pretty well as a movable workspace. I could stack the laptop, shoebox and the clipboard all together and move them out of the way without too much effort. I remembered I had some Plexiglas that had been waiting for a good project to come along.

Step 1: Hardware

When I build a computer for someone, I usually keep the extra screws and standoffs that come with the case and/or motherboard. Because of this, I had a bunch of different standoffs, felt washers and screws to choose from. I decided to go with the ones with the largest threads and the tallest heads.

Comments

[mpilchfamily]

Made something like this several months back. But rather then using the double sided tape that came on the back of the breadboard i removed that then soldered wires on the back side of the power rails. This way you don't have to always use jumper wires to bridge the gaps and it gives you a cleaner setup. I had to use screws and nuts to bolt the breadboard to the acrylic and pinch it tight together so that the metal clips in the board don't fall out. I used Sugru on the ends of the screws for soft feet. No the whole things sits up high enough for a small battery pack to be mounted under the Arduino to make things more portable.

[qwerty156]

If you want ill buy that arduino mega from you....

[gada888]

brilliant idea.