C64 Commodore 64 TOMv3 USB mouse interface case housing
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You may find on ebay some really clever interface, named TOM, for your C64 which allows to connect modern mouse, keyboard or gamepads by USB. It is also suitable for Atari and Amiga. It comes with typical housing, however this housing have a couple disadvantages. Especially in the case of C64 you have to use some cable adapter to connect TOM. It is inconvenient and looks bad. So, I decided to develop new case which looks better and doesn't require any cable adapters to use with C64... :) First, simply remove old housing. Use the 6mm drill and make two holes in the metal frame of DB9 connector a little bigger (but not too big or you will destroy the frame!!!). It will allow to hide heads of screws as deep as possible in the frame (take a look on the attached pictures). Slide TOM into the new printed housing. If you find some problems when slides in, try to push in and pull out the board couple of times and use some force again. Sometimes it fits really tight. Then mount it by using two tiny screws with cone shape heads (2mm in diameter and 6-10mm long) and that is it. As you may see on the pictures I designed two different types of housing. On one of these I added some colour layers in the slicer. The lowermost and topmost layer is only decorative but the middle one is printed with red transparent filament. Thanks to that you may see the light from on board mounted LED. Middle stripe should start at a height of 17mm and its thickness is 1mm. On the second housing you may also find some stripes but those are only decorative. The light from LED comes through the little hole in the side wall.
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