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Enclosure design

OK, last evening I did the first prototype - a proof of concept. It seems to work, so during the day I set the distance from ground glass to lens so I can get focus at infinity.

Once all distances are set, I can think about enclosure. As I looked at the prototype it seems all to fit to a 6x6x? project box that can be found in RadioShack or any component store. In worst case you can always build the enclosure from a cereal box :-)

Here is what I want it to look:

Prototype Design
Again to look more professional and impress my two years old daughter I designed the thing in CAD first.
The goal is to reuse everything I did last night, but this time build it inside closed box.

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Since I will be using the RadioShack project box which is quite sturdy, I will use the body to hold the screws itself.	Never trust a plastic so I will took the "lens" board from yesterday project and attach it from inside of the box to hold the shape.
Now take the middle part with the CD motor and place it on top of the lens board and secure it with screws in the distance I measured earlier. Well to be honest, I will probably have to re-calibrate it anyway.	The last part will be the macro board part. But see the change, I will not screw it to the CD motor part as yesterday, but I will attach it the same way as the lens board above to the back part of the enclosure box. As we determined before, the distance from ground glass to the macro lens is not that critical.
Here is the look from back side - from the MACRO attachment lens side. Here goes our camera.	This is a view from the front - the lens side. See the switch on the top for the motor.

This looks easy, so let's build it!