[sdiy] Designing front panels for synths

[Roman Sowa]

You can't beat PCB front panel pricewise.
I've been doing PCB panels and entire cases before it was a thing.
All the good features were already listed by others, so let me just 
point out one thing from my case-making experience. Only because it's 
PCB you can easily solder stiffeners made of different parts of PCB 
making it solid as a rock. The biggest thing I made out of PCB was 140cm 
long cover for DIY keyboard and it feels almost like made out of 1mm 
steel, and because it's easily solderable, I could build fancy mounting 
system, so there are absolutely no screws on top.

There is no way to make metal face plates in small quantities affordable.

Roman

W dniu 2020-10-14 o 17:15, Didier Leplae via Synth-diy pisze:
> This may be slightly off topic, but how do people feel about PCBs as front panels? So far this has been how I have been doing it. I guess it’s not ideal, but the results are decent and quite cost effective when making small quantities.
> Are there ways to make metal face plates in small quantities that are affordable?
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>> On Oct 14, 2020, at 9:49 AM, Neil Johnson <neil.johnson71 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> One good source for learning are the front panels of good quality test equipment, from the likes of HP, Tektronix, Fluke, Philips.  Companies that have entire departments responsible for the ergonomics/"man-machine-interface" (or Human Factors as it used to be called).
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