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Posted by Gordon McComb on January 25, 2006, 12:33 am
Plastic standoffs are available in various lengths, or you can use nylon
machine screws and nuts, available at most hardware stores (look in the
specialty hardware drawers, not the pre-packaged stuff). Plastic
standoffs are pretty common from most any electronics catalog retailer
like All Electronics.
-- Gordon
Adam wrote:
>
> I'm working on a small robot (about 20 cm squareish) and, lacking
> better materials, I've made the chassis out of Simpson Strong Ties
> (small sheets of steel from Home Depot, with regularly-spaced holes for
> nails). I'm using perfboards to make my wire-wrapped prototype
> circuits, and I'm trying to figure out how to mount the boards to the
> chassis. Obviously there are bare wires and leads all over the bottom
> of the board, so I'll need to mount the boards with suffcient space so
> the chassis won't short my circuits. How do you mount your circuit
> boards to your robot frames? Any ideas will help.
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> I'm working on a small robot (about 20 cm squareish) and, lacking
> better materials, I've made the chassis out of Simpson Strong Ties
> (small sheets of steel from Home Depot, with regularly-spaced holes for
> nails). I'm using perfboards to make my wire-wrapped prototype
> circuits, and I'm trying to figure out how to mount the boards to the
> chassis. Obviously there are bare wires and leads all over the bottom
> of the board, so I'll need to mount the boards with suffcient space so
> the chassis won't short my circuits. How do you mount your circuit
> boards to your robot frames? Any ideas will help.