Robb Smith's Parametric Finger Jointed Box

[gwilki]

Robb kindly provided his openSCAD files and his .stl files for his take on a mid-century TV cabinet featuring remarkable hidden joinery. The cabinet houses an older smart phone.

Here is a link to his post with pics of his completed project:

Parametric finger-jointed box with example application

I’m repurposing my wife’s old smartphone as a smart speaker/voice assistant, so I made this project case in the style of a mid-century TV cabinet to house the phone, speakers, amp and power supply. This was cut from 5mm red oak veneer plywood (sold to me as 1/4" incidentally - I need to keep a pair of calipers in the car!). I’m still working on getting OpenSCAD to generate some nice looking mid-century-style curvy splayed legs, so more on this later. In the meantime, I thought the community …

Here are the zipped files of the scad files:

parametric_box - v1.6.scad.zip (2.6 KB)

tv_case - v1.3.scad.zip (5.0 KB)

Here is the zipped file for the stl files

stl files.zip (3.1 MB)

Edit: Rob has updated these files from the previously-posted versions

Updates in these versions:

• Corrected a bug in the finger joint positioning (opposite sides of a given panel were not quite in alignment)

• Made the spacing between parts a function of the router bit diameter so it resizes automatically if a different bit is used

• Rotated the right-hand side of the box in the machining view so the orientation of the grain will be consistent in the final box

[Swinly]

Very cool design thanks @Robbs

[_Michael]

OMG! Someone else uses OpenSCAD! It’s awesome!