Enclosure for Teensy project?

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I am going to be using a Teensy 2.0 for an input device. I have previously done projects using Arduinos, and can easily mount them in an enclosure on standoffs.

How do folks here package their Teensy boards for projects?

I also want to avoid soldering wires to the Teensy, so I'd like to find a socket or something that the whole module with header pins could plug in to.

Ultimately, I will be having a custom board designed, but the Teensy is going to be used initially.
 
Adafruit has some perma-proto boards that you might want to think about.

If your teensy just has a few connections, you might want to think about the Adafruit Perma-Proto Small Mint Tin Size Breadboard PCB that fits in an Altoids smalls tin: http://www.adafruit.com/products/1214. You would need some plastic bumpers to make sure the wires don't touch the mint-tin.

If you have more complex setup, then you can go to the full size mint tin: http://www.adafruit.com/products/723. Adafruit also sells a tin without the Altoids label: http://www.adafruit.com/products/97.

I believe you can use a DIP-24 socket to solder to the proto board, and then plug in the Teensy with header pins to the socket, and remove it as necessary: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9095

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Instead of the DIP socket, you can use headers to provide a mounting platform for the Teensy, and/or have a row that you can plug wires in like you do on breadboards: http://www.pololu.com/product/1030
 
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Thanks for the great replies. I hadn't considered something like this -- I was thinking someone made an adapter shield or something. I will have to explore these options. Initially, I will probably build using an Arduino Leonardo and a screw shield (so anyone can hook things up, without any soldering), but ultimately, I want to use the Teensy for these types of projects.
 
If you wanted to build a platform that you could mount Arduino shield on, I've throught about using this protoshield as a base, and put the Teensy in the middle. http://www.aztecmcu.com/catalog/i125.html.

Unlike a lot of protoshields, this offers 2 sets of rows for the header pins, so you could connect the wires from the Teensy's pins to the headers, which includes the Arduino spacing (due to a mistake on the original Arduino layout, and they didn't have the funds to redo the layout). It also has more connected rows in breadboard fashion, so that you can put the Teensy's DIP-28 packaging down, and directly connect the pins.

You would need header pins such as: http://www.aztecmcu.com/catalog/i130.html

Note, you would need to be careful to only put in shields that are 3.3v tolerant.

There was this PCB offered at tindie.com that was specialized into mounting a Teensy into an Arduino shield setup, but it has been sold out for some time now: https://www.tindie.com/products/joni/teensy-30-to-arduino-adapter/
 
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3d printed case

Hi, I just finished printing one of these

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for a fellow at Buffalo Lab.
It came out pretty good but the draftsman who made the .stl file was obviously an expert.
That's where the hard part is. It snapped together perfectly!
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:202959
 
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