TUTORIAL Dr Andrew Lewis is a specialist fabricator and maker, and is the owner of the Andrew Lewis Workshop.
Years ago, electronics projects would turn up in the most unexpected places. Crystal radios would be housed in leather vanity cases, computers could be hiding in a discarded pizza box, and power supplies sometimes lived in ornate wooden cigar boxes. Somewhere along the way, the aesthetic of the 'professional' project box started to overtake the sentiment of reuse and recycle. With the coming of 3D printers, it's possible to make production-quality enclosures for any project. While it's nice to be professional, there's still a lot to be said for projects that reuse existing objects like tin cans. Tin cans are cheap, ubiquitous, more recyclable than plastic, and come in regular sizes.…