My two rack-synths, i did not want to put them out of their racks, so i took an IKEA Samla-nox (i hope it has the same name outside germany) and created a wallmount-rack. The wallmount-additions are 3D-printed, i can take the rack from the wall and put it somewehere elese on a table.
I have a Model-D and a Kobol-Expander inside, can use the integrated Midi-funtionality and the 6.3mm-audio-outs together with all that sits on the front of these modules.
Have more IKEA-hacks in work, the well known Tavelan-hack as Eurorack, use this with 3D-printed rails for my (still not completly finished) modules.
I approve of IKEA hacks in general, but especially IKEA synth hacks. My rack, neglected due to work commitments, is built into KNAGGLIG wooden crates - I had to modify them to fit in the 3D printed rails (I’ve sawn off about 3cm of wood), but the new design that they’ve introduced won’t need that. (I might have to go there soon to pick one up!)
Each crate can manage two rows of 3U, 40HP Eurorack. I added holes to the top and bottom rails so that I can do things like 3.5mm stereo to 2x 3.5mm mono, simple attenuators, mults etc. So far I’ve not achieved that!
I also used to have their plastic laptop ‘riser’ (no longer available) for my MPC One, which I modified. It was exactly the right size for the MPC’s depth and the width was exactly the right size for the MPC and NTS-1 side by side. I’d built a small mixer, USB hub and an ethernet-to-wifi adaptor into it. Eventually I outgrew it and built my own rig from aluminium extrusion but kept the MPC at the same angle.
I have to look for LNAGGLIG the next time i walk an IKEA (in germany, IKEA is often translated as “Idioten kaufen einfach alles” → “Idiots simply buy everything”), but thats really not true
My Tavelan-Box looks this. Tavelan is very small, so you will have to buy much, and allways have a min-box that alsmost is unusable.
At the top is the Tavelan (the big one). The small one is only 113mm wide inside, so place for one of my modules…
Tavelan can be found in bathroom-supplies. These are two wooden boxes that are meant for putting shower gel and soap into, we put synths into it price is ver low, in germany about 8 Euros for the big and small box.
I have put the 3D-print-STL for the rails at thingiverse:
Your Tavelan rack looks great! I’ll have to look for them next time I’m down there. I think they might be too shallow for most of my diy modules because I usually mount the PCB sideways, but I will have to look at them properly.
They are very small with Depth-measurement, so modules with sideways mounted PCBs will have problems. The inner sizes of the boxes are:
small one (X : Y : D) 132mm : 113mm : 51mm
big one ( X : Y : D) 284mm : 113mm : 51mm
It will be possible to use a saw and cut out the floor.wood, its not thick, just like 1 or 2mm plywood.
I have bought a “Knaggig” yesterday, together with two boxes “UPPSNOFSAD”. These is a box made of recycling-material. Its very cheap (1,90 Euro with lid, available without lid, too).
The inner measurements are:
(X : Y : D) 310mm : 220mm : 130mm
Perhaps some additions of wood and 3D-printed stuff can make this a rack, perhaps can be used in portrait-orientation, too.
For the Samla you find the files some post above, for this “Knaggig” i need some time. Have a project programming an ESP32 as a sequencer, this needs some more weeks to be ready (started programming six month ago). Have new PCBs for this with presoldered SMD-parts for some some conversters and resistors. This box has to wait some weeks before i can start to think on it.
I’ve been planning on it, but want to get a new design Knagglig first to make sure everything still fits. I don’t want to send people off to IKEA, then print my parts, only to find that they’ve changed a dimension by a couple of mm and nothing lines up any more…
I finally got down to IKEA and picked up a new-style Knaggig box. They’ve ruined it for cost-saving reasons, as far as I can tell. 10mm wood is now 9mm wood and the prebuilt ends have been scrapped, so you have to screw the four end parts directly into the upright supports of the sides. To do that the supports have been turned which makes the modification impossible for my Eurorack design. (You can see in the photo that the orientation has changed, if not the chunks I’ve sawn off on my existing ones.)
The screwheads on the ends are impossible to get flush, so they’re also pretty poor at being stood on the ends like the old design. All in all, a disappointing end to my IKEA Eurorack adventure.
… that being said, I’ve just worked out a way of doing it that might work quite well. I might have to prototype a new version if I can’t shake it out of my head.
I will try to do some Eurorack-testing with the UPPSNOFSAD. Its very cheap, made off PP-C (Poly-Propylene, i think). Its available as Box and Box with lid.
Did not even think about orientation, am doing other things at he moment.
To get more of these boxes connected together you will need some parts (perhaps 3D-printed) cause they are a bit conical.
OK. After putting it off forever, I got around to working my adaptation of the KNAGGLIG design.
When I went to IKEA I somehow accidentally grabbed the large version of the box, but I took advantage of that so that it fits two rows of Kosmo, which is perfect for me. Taking inspiration from @irregularshed’s design, I added a thingy I designed and 3D printed at the bottom to hold jacks that will convert from 1/4 inch to 3.5mm, so that this would work with my Neutron. Scrap wood provided the material for the rails, as well as feet on the bottom and a little extra rail on top, for whatever I decide to add later. Some spare cabinet hardware gave me handles, and viola, we have a half completed Kosmo case.
I still need to add a power supply, the rest of the hardware, and actually make some modules to go inside it, but I’m happy with it so far. Here’s the link to the onshape project of the 3d printed thingy: Onshape (It’s super janky though so don’t expect it to work well if you decide to try and make it. It was designed for a very small printer.)
