Breadboard Potentiometer Housing

This is a housing for a 17mm-diameter potentiometer that plugs into a standard breadboard. It's a real pain to stick a pot/trimmer on a breadboard, the time you're most likely to need to tweak it. Hopefully this will make it easier for you.

To build this, you'll need a pot with a 17mm-wide housing and a female 2.54mm header, such as what you see on an Arduino for connecting shields. These parts can be found cheaply on ebay, for example.

###Instructions

* Print the STL
* cut off two sections of 5-pin headers
* Insert the headers into the slots in the housing so that the bottoms are flush
* bend the potentiometer pins 90 degrees downward.
* insert the pot pins into the header and the pot into the housing
* put the lid on

Optionally, you can superglue the pin headers into the housing, but I made it a tight fit, so that may not be needed. If you superglue, make sure to align the pins on a breadboard first.