Not much progress this week, my hot air station gave up on me, the heating element/sensor isn't working. It's just blowing cold air at this time.
I received the RGB LEDs and planned to solder them on the SAMPad this weekend and then also solder the TS65. Damn it, at least this weekend and most likely the next are also going to be wasted.
I used the time to go to the laser cutting workshop to get the case cut and my curse continued. Some history, about three years ago I was really into getting cases made out of acrylic, at that time in a span of few months, I was able to damage (In 3 cases misalignment of the laser) 5 lasers. Yesterday, the same thing happened. I was there with the guy, trying to fix it up. The problem occurred when we were cutting the thick middle piece. I came back home at 11 in the night, but the workshop guy continued working late into the night as he had to deliver some goods for other clients tomorrow.
I was however able to get one complete case cut for the SAMPad. Now there was also one more issue, Pune (City I'm staying in right now) is rather small, so I was only able to find the frosted pieces in 10mm and 3mm, rather than 8mm and 2mm. This meant that the flathead screws I had on hand are now not going to work since they are 6mm in height and I need at least 7mm, because 3mm for the bottom piece, 3mm for the diffuser, and then at least 1mm to go into the standoff. Oh well, got to order 8mm screws then. Due to the misalignment problem, there were minor issues in the middle piece, the main problem is that the top surface has a larger kerf compared to the bottom; because of this I'll need to file down some parts of the internal side of the walls of the middle layer to accommodate the diffuser as well as have the screw holes line-up.