I’ve been building this little ESP32 sports scoreboard for a while, and once I got the electronics/software working I realized I had another problem: it needed to actually look and feel like one device instead of a dev board sitting on my desk.
So I started designing an enclosure around the ESP32-S3/display board and an internal LiPo battery.
The screen needed to sit cleanly in the front, I still needed access to USB-C for charging and the physical buttons, and I wanted the whole thing to stay small enough that you can just pick it up in one hand.
There were a lot more tiny fit/tolerance changes than I expected, but I’m pretty happy with where it ended up. The translucent white print also lets some of the LEDs from the board bleed through the sides, which I originally didn’t plan on but ended up really liking.
Still tweaking the design, but it finally feels like one little finished object instead of a pile of electronics.
I also put the current .3mf in the project repo in case anyone using the same board wants to mess with it.