Part of the toy museum's Heritage Lottery Funded "Frank Hornby 150" project was the design and creation of a set of lasercut touchscreen housings that would allow a set of Android-powered screens to be placed around the museum.
The design needed to be strong, with no sharp corners, wifi-transparent, well ventilated, and reasonably simple and fast to fabricate (given that we needed to build six of them). It also needed to make the tablets easily accessible but visually unobtrusive, so as not to disrupt the period "look" of the museum too much.
After a number of design iterations, the final design used just two smoked acrylic lasercut panels with chromed standoffs forming an open "cage" around the tablet. For robustness and flexibility we then fitted a pair of adjustable-angle commercially-available loudspeaker mounts to the back of each tablet housing.
I used BuildBrighton's lasercutter for fabrication.
