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RayB:
Check out the "keyboarder" and "modular desktop" boxes on this page: http://www.action-electronics.com/lmb.htm

They seem ideal for desktop control panels.

DarkBubble:
I was just flipping through an Allied Electronics catalog yesterday and came across the same style of box and thought the same thing.  Seems like it'd be a bit light, noisy, and possibly flimsy though.  Would 16-guage aluminum stand up well?

mahuti:
They have a deluxe nibbling tool.

*snicker*

MikeDeuce:
I've played with these at Fry's a few times... good for something to press buttons on like a keypad, but would need a ton of reinforcement inside to withstand actual abuse, IMHO.

Maybe if ya filled em with expanding polyurethan foam... heh.

DarkBubble:

--- Quote from: MikeDeuce on February 10, 2006, 01:35:01 pm ---Maybe if ya filled em with expanding polyurethan foam... heh.

--- End quote ---

I was thinking about using expanding foam to tone down the noise of the microswitches a little.  Once it's dry, it'd be easy to carve out the spots for the parts...anyone actually try it?

The thing about those boxes, in combination with an iPac and various controls, you can create custom controls for practically anything that you can use a keyboard with.  I've got friends who have home studios, and it'd be great to build them a custom control panel that's easily mappable to the keyboard commands of the software that they're most used to.

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