Plate foam

Files are in the Github Repo here.

Two sets of plate foam for the Sofle Pico

Details

A Cricut can be used to cut plate foam. 2mm PVA craft foam is used with the FDM & the acrylic case to fill the 2mm gap between the plate and the PCB.

BOM

Materials used to make plate foam for the Sofle Pico

This are the Cricut recommended tools and materials for cutting foam. Starting with a fresh knife, my cuts started looking ragged by the second set of plate foam. (The black set in the image above was cut second).

Name Count Remarks Potential Storefront
Cricut Maker 3 Deep Cut Blade 1   Amazon
Cricut Strong grip mat 1 12x12 or 12x24 Amazon
2mm Craft foam 1 I’ve only tried the ‘Silly Winks’ brand because that’s what my local store carried. If there’s a better foam, please submit a PR. Amazon

Cutting the foam plates with Cricut Design Space

  1. Import the svg into the Cricut Design Space. The svg can be found here.
  2. Duplicate and mirror as necessary to optimize the use of space on your material.
  3. Browse materials:
    Browsing materiels in the Cricut Design Space
  4. Selecting the material 'foam' in the Cricut Design Space
  5. Selecting the subset from material 'foam' in the Cricut Design Space
  6. Selecting the blade to be used with the 'foam' setting in the Cricut Design Space

About generating new plate foam

The foam outlines were created by exporting svg layers directly from KiCad. The Svg’s were imported directly into cricut creator with no scaling.