Nucleo Storage Rack

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#1

I recently made a storage rack for Nucleo development boards for @bergzand.

I was asked to share it with the rest of the community. So feel free to use it.
The DIN rail mount is left as an exercise to the reader.

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#2

Very nice, I think it might also interest @fjmolinas.

#3

Super cool thanks!

#4

Really useful thing!

#5

I set up one in my office, really cleans up my desk! I’ll have to get more and do something similar for other form factors.

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#6

It is nice to see that these get more use. I would appreciate a picture.

If you have any suggestions for improvements feel free to let me know.

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#7

It’s pretty nice, small feedback so far:

  • The last level is a bit short => in that I can’t fit a BOARD with an expansion-board for example
  • Or the last lever could be see-through (like only have the external wireframe)

Other than that I guess my dream wish would be to have something where I can easily fit more form-factors (not only nucleo BOARDS), but that starts to be hard to design since all BOARD’s have different form factors, but I think I might try to simply print som sheets with the whole for those form-factors and then fit them into the rack space… see how that works and then maybe start building a collection of those.

#8

That shouldn’t be too hard if you parametrize the model. One design would then allow form factors you can imagine.

#9

I have had a discussion about multiple form factors. I could change the tower, to allow for a tower for a different board. But that would still be limited. A different suggestion that I got was to use the arduino mounting holes that are present in a lot of boards.

What boards are you using? I might have some that I can test with.

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#10

Yeah, that is somehow what I was thinking, just having slates that would fit in the same rack and on those just put the whole for Arduino boards, Microchip, etc.

I have a lot of different BOARDs, I don’t expect to fit all of them, but for info:

arduino-uno arduino-zero atmega256rfr2-xpro b-l072z-lrwan1 dwm1001 ek-lm4f120xl frdm-k64f i-nucleo-lrwan1 nrf52dk nucleo-f030r8 nucleo-f091rc nucleo-f103rb nucleo-f207zg nucleo-f303k8 nucleo-f303re nucleo-f334r8 nucleo-f446re nucleo-f767zi nucleo-g071rb nucleo-g474re nucleo-l073rz nucleo-l152re nucleo-l433rc nucleo-l452re nucleo-l496zg nucleo-l4r5zi openmote-b p-nucleo-wb55 pba-d-01-kw2x samr21-xpro slstk3402a z1

PS: sorry it took me so long to answer, was distracted when writing the answer and then completely forgot.

#11

No problems,

Slates? What do you mean? Like bracket to put the board in to put in in the rack? Because that would be an option.

I will take a look at the boards, and see what I can do.
Some of those boards would probably fit in the current rack I think.

#12

Slates? What do you mean? Like bracket to put the board in to put in in the rack? Because that would be an option.

I mean a single plane where you would fix the BOARDs, and that plane would roughly have the size of a Nucleo BOARD. So you would have a base shit/slate/plane that is the size of a Nucleo BOARD, and therefore you can fit it on the rack, and on that slate, you would make mounting holes for different BOARDs, e.g.: Arduino mounting holes. Not sure if this is clear, I’ll try to find time to make a 3d drawing of one as an example.