Process?.. you mean I had a plan?
I had been sketching ideas for a few weeks. I wanted it to basically store all my printer 'stuff' in one place, and look like a half reasonable piece of furniture.
You don't have to have the top enclosure and the base together, either part works as a stand alone item.
This means I can move the top enclosure part to my workshop if needed and leave the base cabinet in situ.
The control panel is a piece of aluminium, lovingly drilled and filed for a couple of hours! I do hate cutting square/rectangle holes in metal plate.
Sprayed it up black, and used some old (and very time consuming) rub down transfers for the lettering.
Quick clear coat afterwards to seal it all.
The TFT screen basically controls lighting, the heater and the temps. I could have run a slave screen off the Rambo (still could), but I don't really need to do that.
I have to be honest, I rarely look at the LCD display on the printer, so it being in the cabinet is not an issue.
I can always run it out to my TFT screen if I need to, or take off the data I need and add it to my Arduino code.
The only thing I have taken off the Rambo, is a loop off the stop button.
This was already done, as the Rambo stop button is also controlled my by laser stop system (if the laser makes a full beam across the print bed, then the print has obviously released and it stops the printer. Saves finding piles of spaghetti plastic the next morning).
I started the wiring today, and the fan ducting. Just writing a little short Picaxe IC program (small programmable chip) to control the RGB leds. These chips are only about £2 each, and it then saves the Arduino having to also do the math for the RGB leds, as well as monitor the temps.
Just found a nice, small Webcam in the workshop. Going to install that as well and stream it to a spare channel on the TV.
Then I can have it 'picture - in - picture' while watching TV if I want.
