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Enclosure and gadget maker

I’m Peiwen. I design printed enclosures for small soldered gadgets, plus modular bins for a parts drawer, and I sell the files, two video courses and a tee.

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Printed enclosures for your small gadgets, and bins for your parts drawer

The parts

Twelve printed parts that combine into a finished gadget or a parts drawer. The first six are the starter pack.

Pick a piece to see what uses it

Starter

Box body A printed box with screw posts, sized for a small board in 6 kits.

Box lid A flat lid with a lip around the edge so it stays put in 4 kits.

Vented cover A lid with slots, for a sensor that needs to feel the air in 2 kits.

Board standoffs Four short posts that hold a board by its screw holes in 2 kits.

Cable plug A notched plug that holds a cable in the wall of the box in 5 kits.

Wall tab A tab with a screw hole to fix a box to a wall or a rail in 3 kits.

Rain hood A slanted cap that keeps rain off a vented cover in 2 kits.

Battery holder Holds two AA cells, with a slot for the leads in 1 kit.

Bin 2×1 A long bin for screws, headers and loose parts in 3 kits.

Bin divider Splits a bin or a drawer in two in 2 kits.

Drawer baseplate The plate the bins and boxes click onto in 4 kits.

Label tab A small tab on the front of a bin for a paper label in 3 kits.

The kits

Each kit lists its parts by number.

  1. Printed weather case on a rainy balcony rail

    Balcony Weather Case Kit

    A box, a vented cover, standoffs, a rain hood and a cable plug for a weather monitor that lives outside.

    • Box body
    • Vented cover
    • Board standoffs
    • Rain hood
    • Cable plug
  2. Open printed case with a breadboard on teal

    Starter

    Breadboard Test Case Kit

    A box, a lid, standoffs and a cable plug that hold a small board with its breadboard wiring still attached.

    • Box body
    • Box lid
    • Board standoffs
    • Cable plug
  3. Printed battery sensor box on orange backdrop

    Battery Sensor Box Kit

    A box, a lid, a battery holder, a cable plug and a wall tab for a sensor that runs on batteries.

    • Box body
    • Box lid
    • Battery holder
    • Cable plug
    • Wall tab
  4. Printed teal gadget case screwed to a wall

    Starter

    Wall Mount Gadget Kit

    A box, a lid, a wall tab and a cable plug for a small gadget you screw to a wall.

    • Box body
    • Box lid
    • Wall tab
    • Cable plug
  5. Hands fitting a grey bin into a drawer baseplate

    Parts Drawer Starter Kit

    A baseplate, two bin sizes and dividers for a drawer of screws and small parts.

    • Drawer baseplate
    • Bin 2×1
    • Bin divider
  6. Drawer of printed modular bins holding electronics parts

    17 min

    My drawer of printed bins for parts

    The pale grey and teal bins that hold my screws, headers and spare boards, and how they click onto a plate.

    • Drawer baseplate
    • Bin 2×1
    • Bin divider
    • Label tab
  7. Flat lay of printed parts, a small board and tweezers

    11 min

    What I keep on hand for small gadgets

    Laying out printed parts, a small board and tweezers on a cutting mat, and what I reorder first.

    • Drawer baseplate
    • Box body
    • Box lid
    • Label tab
  8. Compact workshop with printer and shelves at dusk

    24 min

    A compact workshop in a spare room

    A tour of the desk, the shelf and the printer where everything on this channel gets made.

    • Drawer baseplate
    • Bin 2×1
    • Label tab
  9. Laptop showing a layered 3D model of a clamp case

    Rail Mount Sensor Kit

    A box, a vented cover, a rain hood, a cable plug and a wall tab that clamp a sensor to a balcony rail.

    • Box body
    • Vented cover
    • Cable plug
    • Wall tab
    • Rain hood

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About

About me

I live in Taichung and work in a compact spare room with one desktop printer, a soldering iron and a lot of small boards. I started by printing a box for a weather monitor I built for my balcony, and the rain taught me what an enclosure really needs: a lip on the lid, a hole for the cable and a hood over the sensor.

I film the printing, the soldering and the fitting, and I say what went wrong when something did not fit. I test every board on a breadboard first, then draw the box around it. I only work with low-voltage parts, from a small board and a battery or a USB supply.

I sell the files as STL packs: a starter pack of six parts, and a kit for each gadget or drawer, with a print list and a layout sheet. There is also a wiring guide and two video courses. The modular bins came later, from a drawer I got tired of digging through. I do not sell printed parts, and I do not take orders to design things for other people.

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