Build your own BEATBox

This section deliberately keeps two assembly-guide versions in parallel while the project team evaluates which experience to retain. Both describe the same device, but their structure and interaction model differ.

• Assembly tutorials
  • Enclosure
  • Sub-modules
  • Recommended workflow
  • Reporting corrections
• Master bill of materials
  • Download
  • Required release checks
• Safety notes
  • Insert insertion
  • Soldering
  • Plexiglass
• Fabrication
  • 3D-printed parts
  • Plexiglass parts
  • Files
• Video tutorials
  • Publication status
  • Publication requirements

Compare the two versions

Version A — Interactive tutorial

Use the single-page, module-by-module checklist during a bench build. It includes the current parts tables, videos, and validation checkpoints.

Open the interactive assembly tutorial

Version B — Modular Sphinx guide

Use the six rendered tutorials from assembly-tutorials, with the versioned BOM and the available videos embedded on their matching module pages.

Open the modular Sphinx guide

Neither version is removed during this comparison period. For useful feedback, complete a build primarily with one version and record where its navigation, level of detail, or media support helps or blocks you.

Common preparation

1. Review the safety notes.

2. Download the Master BOM and confirm every unresolved field for the hardware revision being built.

3. Prepare 3D-printed and laser-cut parts.

4. Choose one of the two guide versions above for the evaluation build.

5. Record deviations and validation notes, including the guide version used.

Versioned sources

• Tutorial index

• Master BOM (XLSX)

• Master BOM (CSV)

• Part-ID and media conventions

The assembly-tutorials repository owns the editable module guides and BOM. It is included here as a pinned Git submodule, so the manual renders the reviewed source revision directly instead of maintaining a second editable copy.