Electrical Junction Boxes for Microcontrollers?

[Chuckt]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junction_box

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These boxes are cheap, plentiful and are designed for house current which is more than hobby microcontrollers probably handle. I suppose they can be painted and if you design a board to fit then you may have a profitable design. Engineers are afraid of selling electrical products to the general public but I would feel more safer with some projects in these boxes.

There just needs to be a modular PCB design for the 16F or 18F pic.

Just be careful of metal splinters, wear heavy duty gloves and use safety glasses. And use a file for sharp edges.

[brad]

I like using plastic boxes. They are cheap and easy to work with (drilling etc...)

I used to get them from my local electronics store which has just closed down

[MrDEB]

The ABS plastic electrical boxes are cheap as well.
Most any hardware store or Bigbox has them.
The junction boxes are the best as they are sealed (watertight)