Today James takes a look at the Silverstone Seta Q1 which ships with a rather complex front panel design - but is it actually ...

PentairTechnical Products' Schroff brand Front Panel Express service, offers fastprototypes-to-production cycle time. Through the Front Panel Express program, 5to 50 front panels modified with custom ...

When building a one-off DIY project, appearances tend to be the least of our priorities. We just want to get the device working, and crammed into some project case. For those that like to build nicer ...

Pentair Technical Products’ Schroff brand Front Panel Express service offers fast prototypes-to-production cycle time. With Front Panel Express, you can get 5 to 50 front panels modified with custom ...

I’m a big proponent of DIY PC building and I tend to describe it as “relatively straightforward.” For the most part, everything just plugs in where it should. But there is one aspect of putting ...

The production capability available to the individual hacker today is really quite incredible. Even a low-end laser engraver can etch your PCBs, and it doesn’t take a top of the line 3D printer to ...

Fig. 1: Use the free Open Office drawing program for panel identification. Perhaps you’ve used “wax” transfer lettering and symbols to label a front panel in a “do it yourself” project. Although that ...

Front Panel Express version 4.0 has simplified and sped up the process of custom file imports by incorporating a simple DXF file import feature. The import of DXF files makes the design of exterior ...

System users do not always know where all the critical points of cables are. Sometimes difficulties are encountered in connecting jacks to the motherboard. Generally the difficulty is located in the ...

What can scope front panels teach us about design and ergonomics? I've photographed five of my analog scope fronts, so let's see (clicking on the images in this blog brings up higher-resolution ...