This is a small display case consisting of two halves:
The motivation to build this display case from scratch came from several reasons:
- the bottom half shaped like a tray, with four additional vertical pillars,
- the top half with the glass plate.
The motivation to build this display case from scratch came from several reasons:
- After envisaging buying two picture frames, it turned out that (1) I could not find frames that are thick enough, (2) frames made in China means kerosene, (3) I cannot get the exact size I want, and (4) it would cost 2 X 20$ for wooden frames of nice quality.
- I had remaining wood from a former project. So the cost is just the glass (approx 8$) and the investment for a router bit to make the grooves (20$)
- Building from scratch is more fun!
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Materials:
As said before, I had remaining wood from a former project. But the list is pretty simple:
As said before, I had remaining wood from a former project. But the list is pretty simple:
- Wood bars. Preferably hard wood (beech, oak, etc.)
- MDF or plywood plate, e.g. 5 mm thick
- Glass, 3 mm thick. The best is to measure the needed size at the end of Step 3. Ask the shop to cut it to size.
- A few screws and dowels
- Wood glue (modest quantity)
- Linseed oil (modest quantity)
- Saw or electrical jigsaw
- Sand paper, sanding machine (or sanding block)
- Framing vise (optional)
- Router and router bit for 4 mm wide groove
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Thanks for the instructable.
I cannot believe there were 6 comments on the contents of the case before anyone even talked about the project!!
Nice I'ble, I too would want to make a coffe table for memento display.
Nice project
The 1401 is more of a calculator, with all the math functions on individual keys on the upper right, whereas on the displayed unit, you only find the cursor keys.
Both units are Basic programmable, the PC1500 has a additional Z80 inside.
I used it at school, besides a HP.
I just found out, that my "PC1500" is actually a PC1600 with 4 character lines.
I used it as a replacement for a punch-strip reader in a old NC-milling machine. (with quite some assembler code...)
I still have them, just not in such a nice display case...
What role did your PC-1600 play, with the milling machine? BTW I did a lot of assembly code, but with the PC-1500...
On the right, a PC-1360. Slim, no-frills, with four lines of display, two extension bays. A very elegant little machine. The last one of the super-quality Sharps. The next ones (e.g. PC-E500) were with rubber keys and all-plastic cases.
They used to edit their programs on a teletype with tape reader and puncher, a "modern" matrix printer and a one line display.
The editing on the Atari was a huge leap in user friendliness in programming there.
I interfaced the teletype to the Atari first. That way, they were able to transport the programs to the milling machine.
But the cincinnati was the only machine left, without a serial interface and some storage capacity, so i used the PC1600 for that.
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Besides requiring some precision, the only tricky part is to make the grooves, and also adjusting the pillars to leave just enough play.