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Casing : the front

The student makerspace opened at my University. I wanted to try it out ! For the case, I found some wooden tissue box that would fit my needs. Actually it's a bit big, but better safe than sorry. The thing is, the cut in the middle is super handy to start cutting with a jigsaw. So I started working my little front panel for my alarm clock. First, I made a model on Solidworks, just to see what it would look like. Modelling helps having clear ideas ! For the front panel, there is four cuts, made from the middle cut that was originally present on the box (to let the tissues go out). 2 circular holes for the speakers, 1 big rectangular hole for the LCD screen, 1 smaller rectandular hole for the clock. Sadly, my 7-segments display never came, I guess it got lost, so I'll have to deal with the seller to try to have them send it again. :( For the moment, I didn't do any cuts for the buttons, but they will surely be on the top side of the box. This is because, whe