Get them while they are young
A wooden & lasercut mini ITX puzzle
My son is 2 years old and loves PCs. So I wanted to design a wooden motherboard puzzle. miniITX, with sockets for the northbridge, caps, memory sticks, GPU, processor and cooler. I'd also like to include oversized jumpers and sata connectors. Put it in a box and I can add a PSU, hard drives and perhaps even a CD rom. I obviously thought about adding an electric circuit that will light up leds if everything is connected correctly- or even integrate a RaspberryPI and make other components also functional but physically oversized.
Shop time was , however, limited as my basement was a mess and other projects still needed finishing. So I decided to make it a laser cut project. This would allow me to get all the connectors etc. cut in such a way they would fit the holes.
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I lost the first rough designs by overwriting, but this is what it could look like.
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Obviously the holes would have to be fitted to the plank thickness.
Onwards
more is coming... when I get round to doing it!