--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 5:24 AM, Louis Pearson desttinghimgame@gmail.com wrote:
Hello!
I am a student going into college for Computer Engineering and I am super excited about the possibilities of this project! I have backed and will be receiving a Libre Tea Computer Card and a breakout board. I have worked with Arduinos a few times and know how to use them on a basic level, though formal electronics stuff (math, mostly) and electronic design are somewhat of a mystery to me.
ahh if you're happy to work with arduino's you'll do fine.
With that in mind, I would like to start working on a new housing for myself (kind of answering the call in the most recent update). I'm unsure of exactly where to begin though. I'd like to make a custom PCB and case (probably 3D printed). What I fell that I am missing is resources for starting to work with EOMA-68 devices. KiCad libraries, FreeCad models, etc. Where would I find this?
ok. right. the first thing to remember is: it's PCMCIA, so you can use models for that. there's an eoma68.stl file around somewhere which i use... let me see if i can find it... ah! here you go: http://hands.com/~lkcl/eoma/kde_tablet/3dcase/
second thing: i diiid do some KiCAD libraries, way back 4 years ago - it was such a bitch that i had to use proprietary software instead. the libraries however still exist: http://git.hands.com/ and you want eoma.git.
thirdly, the CAD modelling that i use is based on python, where i wrote something called pyopenscadobj.py, which uses pyopenscad.py, which then auto-generates openscad files, which then on-demand generate STLs.
oh wait - i used pyopenscadobj.py in the sandwich200, but used functional programming for the tablet 3dcase and the laptop.
anyway, feel free to explore... https://www.youmagine.com/designs/libre-hardware-licensed-parametric-laptop-...
l.