I'm planning to build a wooden box project for my Raspberry PI, plus speakers. The layout / configuration that I'm thinking of is a three box system; one for the Raspberry PI (plus joystick, buttons, power supply, connectors etc) and the other 2 for the speakers. I would like the system to have two modes; packed and unpacked. Thus packed would look like this:
+----------+---------------+----------+
/ / / /|
/ / / / |
/ / / / |
+----------+---------------+----------+ |
| | | | |
| Left | Controller | Right | +
| Speaker | | Speaker | /
| | | | /
| | | |/
+----------+---------------+----------+
And then open up to unpacked like this:
+----------+ +---------------+ +----------+
/ /| / /| / /|
/ / | / / | / / |
/ / | / / | / / |
+----------+ |+---------------+ |+----------+ |
| | || | || | |
| Left | +| Controller | +| Right | +
| Speaker | / | | / | Speaker | /
| | / | | / | | /
| |/ | |/ | |/
+----------+ +---------------+ +----------+
Now the question; What cool / weird mechanism for moving the boxes apart can you suggest?
- I would like the whole mechanism made from wood
- The boxes are about 20x20cm or 30x30cm
- The mechanism can't move across the back and top of the Controller box (all the plugs etc are there)
- The box should move about 10cm apart, to fit a (flat) hand between the speaker- and controller box (on each side)
One can go as far as having the speakers swing from underneath to the unpack position, etc...