{"id":815,"date":"2014-07-07T20:35:58","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T02:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jedge.com\/wordpress\/?p=815"},"modified":"2015-02-18T19:16:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T01:16:25","slug":"recycle-wr703n-case-for-the-expander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jedge.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/recycle-wr703n-case-for-the-expander\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycle WR703N Case for the Expander"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The TP-Link WR703N Expander is an open source hardware extension to the TP-Link WR703N. It was created by Kean Electronics (http:\/\/www.kean.com.au\/<\/a>) and can be purchased from Seeed Studio (http:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/<\/a>). \u00a0I won’t go into the details of what the Expander includes and what you can do with it. \u00a0This article details how I created my own enclosure for\u00a0the Expander since I don’t have a 3D printer and I didn’t want to purchase the enclosure from one of the 3D printer fabrication sites.<\/p>\n

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Since the goal of the Expander project was to match the form factor of the WR703N I saw no reason why I couldn’t re-purpose one of the WR703N cases to house the Expander. \u00a0While it is the same form factor the positioning of the usb, serial, and io ports required modification to the case. \u00a0The only case modification I wanted to do was to the lid. \u00a0However, the location of one of the USB A ports would require modification of the case itself which I did not want to do (outside of some internal modifications to properly fit the Expander). \u00a0The location of the USB A port in question is near the Micro USB port of the WR703N used to power the device. \u00a0So instead of soldering the USB header that comes with the Expander kit I jerry rigged a Micro USB header using some wire and hot glue. \u00a0As you can see from the pictures below it turned out pretty nice and functions the same as the original header with the adapter cable I created.<\/p>\n

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Solder Wire Wrap to USB Header Points on Bottom of Board<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Solder Wire Wrap to Micro USB Header and Position on Expander using Hot Glue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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USB Port Available Through WR703N Power Connector<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cutting the holes in the lid is a pain in the ass but using a dremel, drill, x-acto knife, plyers, and a rasp I’m able to get okay shaped right-angled holes. \u00a0But I did go through three lids before I was comfortable with the outcome!<\/p>\n

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WR703N Lid with USB, Serial 1 + 2, and IO Connector Holes Cut out.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Expander Hooked Up to the WR703N<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The TP-Link WR703N Expander is an open source hardware extension to the TP-Link WR703N. It was created by Kean Electronics (http:\/\/www.kean.com.au\/) and can be purchased from Seeed Studio (http:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/). \u00a0I won’t go into the details of what the Expander includes and what you can do with it. \u00a0This article details how I created my own […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[124,119],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware-hacking","tag-hardware-hacking-2","tag-wr703n"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jedge.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jedge.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jedge.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jedge.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jedge.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.jedge.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":882,"href":"https:\/\/www.jedge.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jedge.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jedge.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jedge.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}