A carry case for Bus Pirate and accessories is coming together amongst the other chaos. I’d like to do a two layer bag like this, but with more zipper compartments.
Design inspiration is the green canvas and yellow details from a traditional Chinese lineman’s electronics bag. This bag is great, and widely available for 11RMB (~$1.15). It was my daily carry ban in Shenzhen.
Manufacturers keep telling me that’s not waterproof, but it can definitely be treated with wax like an old tent, chore coat, or raw denim
I like the idea of an digital electronics field kit.
I have collected some tools for electronics field work. But this is currently focused more on the mechanical side, like pliers, soldering, shrink tubes, hotmelt glue and similar. Adding more digital-oriented tools would be welcome.
What I really like about the molle pouches is that you can easily fix several of them together with the molle and velcro straps. They then stay together quite well. This would be something I would suggest to add to your bag too. For example put several of these velcro straps on the outside of one side. This would allow to either to fix your bag to another one (or bigger backpack), or use the velcro straps to fix some bigger stuff to the outside, like a 100W USB-C power supply and it’s mains cable.
Oh wow, that’s a lot bigger than I thought. But I can see the advantage once you’ve got a couple of planks, probes, etc.
I’ve been on the hunt for a case not larger than the BP5 itself. This is closest one I’ve found so far, was thinking I could laser-cut some foam for the bottom to hold the Pirate and quick connect adapter. That would still give me the top zippered compartment for USB cable and other assorted bits.
We’re pretty unhappy with the three zipper part. Instead, we’re going to move the zipper towards the edge and try a version with 3 pockets sealed by a single zipper. We came up with 4 layout styles, and one of each will go in the next prototype for dog-fooding.
Another thing is the net stuff. It’s nice to see through, but it catches on components and leads like crazy. The next one will use a solid material, just to test it out.
This version is a bit thicker, and we wanted to try a meta zipper. The selection of 40mm metal zippers 0.5meters long is evidently not great, so our only option was black.
The plastic zipper actually feels/works a bit nicer than the metal
With the limited selection of colors, metal is probably also a bad idea
The increase in width is nice
The bias tape around the edges is the correct color, but I’m not sure I like it. It might look better with a properly colored plastic zipper
I’m going to load up all the Bus Pirate gear into it and dog food it for a few weeks.
I am curious what esd material and manufacturing would cost in the region to do something similiar to my pelican backpack.
The is a hard case fof the laptop with foam to customize the fit. But i was thinking hard shel, dividers, esd foam cutouts.
Then attach a bag made of other mater like the ones you are using, but for periferials, cords, chargers, etc.
I can imagine thos would not be cheap to have manufactured. Withouth the ivers we could divise a way to put grifinity into it and custome foam cutout or cut our own. I’m thinking dense foam many praducts use such as navigation imus and even the Pinecil soldering iron and tips.
Sorry, thinking while im typing makes fof lengthy messages. How do you colapse in the thread so i can tl;dr and expand to read the rest. I assume makeup.
This kind of hard sided case is super common. They usually come in orange and beige as well. All kinds of sizes, height, depths.
Then, you order a custom cut foam insert (ESD foam, I guess) to fit your stuff.
Some day I will use one to make a traveling Bus Pirate demo box, with devices under plexiglass on both sides, a big retro dial to select the active device, and a USB connector in the side.
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