Building Alert: Construction Issues

Because the Couch Pet-ato is likely to sit in your living room and we know that you like a neat-looking home, we placed all the works in a wooden box to make it look tidy. We went strolling down the aisle of a local craft store to find our wooden box, but you might also find one in an office supply store — designed to hold index cards, for example. Just make sure that it’s big enough to hold the breadboard.

Because the walls of this box are thicker than the plastic boxes often used for electronic gadgets, the threads on switches might not be long enough to secure them to the side of the box. If this happens to you, just drill the hole so that it’s large enough to slip only the shaft of the switch through; then use glue to secure the switch.