Final Design in Development part 2

The MP3 player was going to be manufactured by the CNC machine but after considering my design has very deep side and some rather tight places,  it would lend its self to being laser cut in sheets.  The sheets could be adhered together and made good.  The Tron writing is always shown in blue laser lights on a black background.  So i have chosen to laser cut in black acrylic.

The laser cutter is launch from Corel Draw so the files from Pro Engineer will have to be saved in Corel Draw format.  In Corel Draw I will be able to make slight adjustments to my plan view of my design and cut it out as many times as I can depending on the size of the bed of the cutter.




Below shows the laser cutter cutting on my trial piece of clear acrylic.

I was happy with the cut so I brought 3 mm black acrylic form the stores and began to do final cuts.  The first thing was to cut the front panel where the Tron letters will be lit.  I've investigated forms of how I could achieve the laser effect;  from strimmer wire to actual plug in flexible neon strip lighting.  Considering the method of construction and my amplifier being built from acrylic, fluorescent acrylic will be used.

You can see the blue insert of the fluorescent acrylic. The speaker cover will have a design printed out later. 

Once the front panel was cut out and I was happy with the finish the next part is to cut out numerous black templates of Tron so I can build up the required depth.  I now found that the depth is from the speaker and battery and not the circuit board as I previously thought.

In this picture you can see the battery place directly on the back of the speaker and the layers of acrylic place on top of each other.  I will cut out the templates until I've reached the required depth.