NASA Mission Control WEMOS Monitor

Hey kids, we've got a Space Age arts and crafts project here inspired by a cool project by Qrome and NASA Mission Control!

This design would not be possible without the work that Qrome (https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/25378) did putting together a fun, and excellent tool to monitor the OctoPrint servers.
I also used his project to monitor my Pi-Hole and since I wanted these together I decided to design my own housing.

Naturally I tried to make this as complicated as possible and I'm pretty sure I succeeded, but it was fun and I absolutely enjoy the outcome.

The styling is inspired by the Consoles used for the Apollo missions at NASA Mission Control.

The electronic internals are best described in Qrome's project, mine is simply a different style housing to contain this.

The assembly is pretty straight forward with slots to hold in the chassis, Wemos D1 mini, and the back plate. With the back plate in place, it will hold in the chassis and Wemos'.

1) The monitors were hot glued in. I didn't want to do this, but the monitors I bought didn't match the hole patterns of the monitor model I used to design the openings and holes.

2) I painted black around the monitor openings so I wouldn't see orange behind the face plate.

3) I added some clear plastic monitor covers that were glued in with PVA glue to the back side of the front plate. There's a slight recess there for this purpose.

4) I glued the front plate on with some epoxy.

5) The little holes in front are intended to mount clear plastic rod into to transmit the light better to the front. However, in practice the light is clearly visible through the plastic.

NOTE: Be careful when you insert the USB into Wemos, too much force and the chassis will pop out of the small slots it slides into.

Future Ideas: Find a way to insert the monitors and face plate without fasteners or glue.

Print instructions

I was able to print most every part on this model without supports. The exception being the outer housing. I added a minimum support only on the monitor openings.

There was some cleanup needed. I used PETG on this print so there was a bit of stringiness. PLA or ABS might be a better choice.

Some sanding may be necessary depending how smoothly you want the parts to slide together.