QIMSI and RGB->VGA converter housing.

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Barbarpapa1
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QIMSI and RGB->VGA converter housing.

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Hello

I renewed my QL about a year and half ago (I introduced myself to this forum back then) and I bought a QIMSI interface (mainly as mass storage solution) and a RP2040-Zero based RGB to VGA converter (after all these years I wanted to see my QL in colour). Of course, both units came without housing. I’m not an electronic guy but rather a mechanical engineer, specialised for plastic part design, and I’m convinced that the housing is integral and important part of any device I decided to model my own housings for QIMSI and RGB->VGA converter. I tried to make them “as QL-ish” as possible ;) … I know there are more similar things out there, but I love to do my own thing sometimes :P .

For QIMSI I made a two-part housing, which are mounted together with screws. Screws should be self-tapping screws with 3mm outer thread diameter and with maximal shaft length of 16mm. If the 3D printing process is accurate enough, metric screws can do also, but self-tapping is better choice. Here are some CAD screen grabs.

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The RGB->VGA converter housing is also two-part unit, assembled with 4 screws with 3mm outer thread diameter. Situation about screws here is the same as at QIOMSI housing. I had to put some 8mm thick foam pads on top of VGA sub-D and on 5V power supply connector to secure firm fit of the unit in the housing. Here are some screen grabs of CAD model.

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On 3D printed parts I only removed some burrs. I didn’t do any surface finish, I’m too clumsy for that, I only sprayed them in black. PLA material was used for 3D prints.

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If somebody could use it, here are STL files for 3D printing and STEP files if somebody want to change something in CAD.

Have fun

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Re: QIMSI and RGB->VGA converter housing.

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Looks interesting.


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Peter
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Re: QIMSI and RGB->VGA converter housing.

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Thanks for sharing! Nice to see that QIMSI is still also appreciated in its classic role as QL peripheral.
There are now so many case designs that I lost the overview. :D


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dilwyn
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Re: QIMSI and RGB->VGA converter housing.

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Out of interest, do we have a rough figure of how many QIMSIs and QIMSI-Golds have been made?


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