Microbee Acrylic Case

[CheshireNoir]

So I had a "Bitsa" Microbee, built from a 32K ROM board, upgraded to 128K DRAM board (Thanks Chickenman!), without a case. Thankfully, after some work it had a good keyboard.

I decided to see if I could make a replacement case for it.
Using CorelDraw, and a lot of trial and error, I was able to finally get a suitable case designed. There were many attempts made in MDF before I got to something that seemed actually "practical" for holding the 'bee.

After this, it went no further for a long time.
Eventually I laser cut the pieces out of acrylic. It didn't go any further after that for ages either. I finally got some suitable glue last week and, after some setbacks...


I have even gone and added a case badge. I always liked the "classic" version of the Microbee case badge, so that was my inspiration.

I've now been asked to do a "remix" with support for the Premium model by ChickenMan, so I guess I better get on that :-D

John

[MbeeTech]

Looks great John.
What was the process for making the badge?

[CheshireNoir]

Looks great John.
What was the process for making the badge?

It's actually just thick silver cardboard :-D
Just ran it thru the laser printer on a flat path so the printing worked. (One reason I love my current printer is that it has a flat print path so I can print on card)
The badge was run up in CorelDraw, after finding an approximately matching font and tweaking from some images of the badge online.

John

[MbeeTech]

It's actually just thick silver cardboard :-D

Well, great result.  Would not have guessed it was cardboard.
Awesome.