enclosure: all hardware on the baseplate, snap-fit cover
Reorganized so the bottom plate is the structural foundation and the
chassis ("cover") is purely cosmetic. Cover comes off without tools,
exposing all internals at once.
* Speaker mounts to four tall posts on the bottom plate (60 mm M3
pattern), with self-tap pilots at the post tops. No more screw holes
through the cover's top panel. Foam sealing, if it turns out to be
needed, becomes a foam donut on top of the speaker frame compressed
against the cover underside during assembly.
* USB cable routes internally. The connector lives on the Atom inside
the chamber; cable threads through a printed strain-relief tunnel
a few cm in front of the back wall and exits through a small notch
at the bottom of the back wall, matched by a notch in the plate's
back edge so the exit sits flush with the bottom of the unit.
* Cover retention is snap-fit. Four tabs on the plate carry hemi-
spherical bumps that catch in detent recesses on the chassis inner
walls. M3 screws and bosses are gone.
Post height, cable diameter, and snap-bump diameter are param-tunable
guesses to be dialed in after a test print.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>