Chapter four - Casing up

Peeling off the edge of the layer is the easiest way to go

In order to peel them off, take a toothpick, or your nail, (but not any metal or other sharp objects) and carefully scratch off a bit of the cover from one of the corners of the casing. Once that is done, take the plastic with your fingers and slowly peel it off the casing. Satisfying? Oh yeah!

Slowly take off the protective layer so it doesn't break midway

You’ll notice that the casing is still not completely clean. There is also a layer of this plastic on the other side. Each casing has two of these protective films, one on each side. That means that you have to take off a total of twelve plastic covers before continuing.

Make sure to remove the layer from both sides of the casing

Casings after the protective layers have been removed

When all of the casings are nice and clear, continue to the next step.

Make sure that you always use the correct sized bolt - this is really important so that the whole casing can fit together nicely!

Everything needed for these next few steps

Firstly it’s important to separate the back casings from the front ones. You’ll notice that the back casings have a much bigger middle cut out and that the two sides of plastic are only connected on the bottom. On the contrary, the front casings have rectangular holes in the middle of the casings and the sides are connected both on the top and the bottom. 

Since these casings are stacked on top of one another (remember the sandwich design), you have to make sure to stack them in the correct order.

The easiest way to do this is to remember one simple rule - a layer with more holes goes closer to the mainboard.

Let's place the back casings first!

You’ll notice that one of the back casings has two small rectangular holes on one side and one big rectangular hole on the other side. Those holes are there so that the case can fit on top of the back pins of the buttons. Therefore, this part of the casing goes first, with the other part going on top of it.



Remember, a layer with the most holes goes closer to the board!

The first layer of the front casing

While you're holding the back layers of the casing and the one layer at the front, take the 4mm golden spacer (the smaller one) and it through one of the holes on the upper side of the board, close to the side edge.

Now it’s time to take one of the bolts. For this one, take the 8mm metal bolt, the one that is not the shortest, but also not the longest.

The 8mm metal bolt

Place the bolt through the hole on the back side of the board where you just placed the golden spacer.

Once you make sure that the bolt fits into the golden spacer, you can use the screwdriver to tighten the casings. Tighten the bolt by holding the golden spacer tightly with one hand and screwing the bolt from the other side with the screwdriver like in the photo.

Placing the bolt into the hole

 



Repeat the same process on the other side of the board, with the same sized bolt and spacer. 

Both bolts and spacers placed and tightened from the back

Both bolts and spacers placed and tightened from the front

You're doing great! Half of the job is done!

Before putting the bolts in the remaining two holes, you need to layer the rest of the front casings first. 

This one is going to be easy since you already tightened the first front layer of the casing. Remember the rule? Always put the part with more holes closer to the board!

Find the layer with big empty rectangular holes on both sides, and put it on the board.

The part with little circular holes for the buttons and the buzzer is the last one and goes on top.

Placing the middle layer

Placing the top layer - the final layer of the "sandwich"

These casings are probably going to fall off pretty easily now. That’s why we need to make them stick. Take two of the smallest 6mm bolts and place them inside two golden spacers that you’ve already put in place in the previous step.

Tighten them using the screwdriver.

The 6mm bolt

Making sure everything stays in place while placing the rest of the bolts and spacers

Now both casings are in place and won’t go anywhere.

However, there are still a few more bolts to tighten. 

Let’s fill the holes on the bottom of the console, right next to the bottom part of the screen. For this one, you’re going to need the longest bolts (16mm) and the longest spacers (14mm).

The 16mm bolt

Put the bolt in one of the holes in the casing from the front side (the side where you can see the screen).

Take the spacer and place it on top of the bolt from the back (mostly white side of the board). Tighten the bolt and the spacer using the screwdriver. Repeat the same process for the other hole. 

Tighten them with a screwdriver

If the batteries are already inside the battery holder (which they should be from the chapter - first check) then you just have one final step left!

If you’ve taken them out in the meantime, or just never did the check, now is the time to place the batteries in the holder. 

Now for the final touch, take the last piece of the transparent casing, the small rectangle, and place it on top of the batteries so that the holes are aligned with the golden spacers.

Putting the plastic cover on top of the batteries

Take another two smallest 6mm bolts and screw them into the spacers, so that the battery plastic cover gets nicely tightened up.

Tightening the bolts on the battery cover

Use the screwdriver to tighten all of the bolts if necessary additionally.

Voila! You have just completed the assembly of your own brand new gaming console - Nibble!

REMEMBER

Only one more final step to do before turning it on. You can now finally take off the plastic peeling from the screen (if you haven't already). Just grab the little green part and peel it off.

Turn the console ON and start enjoying your Nibble!

The assembling is done, but programming and gaming are just beginning. 

You should be proud of yourself - it's game time!

Make sure you turned off your soldering iron! Unplug it from the power source, place it on the soldering iron stand and let it cool off for at least 5 minutes before you put it away in your tools box.