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I had the idea a while back that it would be nice to have a dashboard for my bike where my ham radio HT, my garmin GPS and switches for managing my head/tail/running lights could be easily accessed while riding. Thinking this was probably the most brilliant idea since ... oh, I don't know ... maybe Edison's light bulb or my mother-in-law moving further away ... I decided others might like to have a dashboard like mine but only, others are likely to have different devices that may not fit what I made so I decided to design (in a very loose sense of that word) a dashboard that would let others use the framework, but they could design the mount they want for their devices, hence the "modular' part of the name.As you can tell by the file name, after 11 iterations, I've decided this one is to a point that I can let others know what I'm up to and get someone (or several someones) who is/are smarter than myself (a large % of the population of any given kindergarten) involved that can improve the design.So here is my Modular Bicycle DashboardHUGE thank you to eddiema for fixing the handle bar mounts and offering them for upload to this thing! HandleBarMount-2 are the fixed files1) print the dash board and the mounts (1 or 2 depending on your preference)2) design a mount for your iphone, phone, GPS, headlight or whatever you like such that it fits into one of the modular holes, then print it up3) mount to your bike4) ride safethis was done completely in google sketchup and when I go to slice it, I get the infamous "not manifold" errors, so I end up running it thru the netfabb software and have them repair it and then I can slice it. I have uploaded all the relevant sketchup files that should allow you to edit/modify to suit your needs and, if you like, to fix my manifold errors.The dashboard itself has 11 holes in the face (or frame) with 14 3mm holes in the side all around the dashboard.the 14 3mm holes around the sides are so you can anchor your module into the frame hole using an M3 ... just to keep it from slipping out of it's frame hole. May not be needed, but there just in case3 of the holes in the frame of the dash are for mounting to the handlebars. They are the small rectangular holes measuring 16mm x 8mm. I put these small rectangular holes such that you can have 2 mounts which stradle the goose-neck of the handle bars or 1 mount which would fit pretty much anywhere you have room on the handle bars.the remaining 8 holes are placed in what seemed to me to be an efficient location for my original purpose which was to house a Yaesu VX7 HT, Garmin forerunner 101, an RJ45 (I used ethernet cable to connect up my front/tail/running lights) and the light switches. But you'll notice my HT is blocking the light switches so I'm going to have to re-design either the HT holder or the switch holder. Either way, I don't have to redesign the dashboard. Thus the benefit to the concept of modularity. You print the dashboard once and then design the modules as you see fit.Eventually I will design a holder for my headlight that will fit into whichever holes remain after I fix the HT covering my light switches.There are thumb nuts with this which are not my design and unfortunately, I don't know who to credit for these (so if you know, tell me and I'll give them their credit). By using the thumb nuts, you should be able to quickly disconnect the dashboard with all of it's electronics for when you park the bike and want to leave it unattended without risking loss of your expensive toys. In one of my designs, I designed a battery pack to plug into the very bottom hole. Since then, I've rigged up a large battery pack that fits into my saddle bag on my bike but that wasn't a problem since I am using the CAT5 cable for wiring on my bike, I had the wires to spare. But I left the hole in for other modules I might want at a later date.So that's it. Please don't hesitate to tweak it and derive it as you see fit but please publish yours on thingiverse so the rest of us can benefit from your design. Certainly it could be more modular (When I was on about dash9 I had the whole frame honey combed with holes but that seemed excessive).send any negative criticism to my mother-in-law, but any positive criticism or suggestions or good ideas you can post here to me.

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