I love 3D printing as it enables me to create custom enclosures for all kind of projects. The NXP LPC-Link2 probe is great, but it lacks a protective enclosure. So I decided to create a custom enclosure. And as 3D filaments are available in different colors, I experimented with red and black and custom painting:

The NXP LPC-Link2 board comes with a 10 cm 10-pin SWD cable in a box:

As it comes without enclosure, debugging is ‘bare board’ only:

To be able to carry the LPC-Link2 and to protect it with a nice enclosure, I have designed in several iterations a 3D printable design. It took me several iterations to get to something like this:

The 3D files have been designed with the free Autodesk 123D Software and the design is available on Thingiverse:

Below it the bottom enclosure part:

I created different NXP logo inlets. The painted one is using a white PLA filament:

The hardest part is to press the small filler for the ‘P’ letter into the inlet. The inlet needs a bit glue to keep it in place:

It does not need and nuts or bolts, and the parts easily slide together. Depending on your printer tolerances, no glueing is required. A moving slider in the middle is used to store the SWD cable:

Here two different color variants:

I have not decided which inlet I finally want to use, here a version with no painting:

Printing the enclosure for one LPC-Link2 takes around one hour on a Ultimaker-2 (0.2mm layer height, 20% fill density) and 11g of PLA.

Happy Printing:-)

Links

• 3D files on Thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2457082
• NXP LPC-Link2: http://www.nxp.com/products/microcontrollers-and-processors/arm-processors/lpc-cortex-m-mcus/lpc1100-cortex-m0-plus-m0/lpc-link2:OM13054