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On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 6:08 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net wrote:
ok, ouch, onto the fourth revision of the corner-pieces already, and some minor changes to the plywood are needed as well. this really would have been awkward if someone else did it.
the anycubic 3d printer is holding up well. the higher-quality PLA from the company i found on aliexpress seems reasonable so far (the "standard" quality definitely isn't: it literally crumbles under pressure).
i'm going to have to go with 2 bolts through the base to hold the PCB (and the card rails) in place: one isn't enough. assembly's... awkward. it's going to have to go out as a kit.
getting there.
l.
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton:
That looks much worse than the photos on CrowdSupply.
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On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 5:53 PM, Lyberta lyberta@lyberta.net wrote:
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton:
That looks much worse than the photos on CrowdSupply.
they have professional camera equipment, a proper studio, and they take very hi-res photos. i scale all the pictures that i publish down to 1024x768 in order to save space on my server. and also tend to take pictures under standard room lights.
l.
Well, design-wise it doesn't look as good either... I must say the version on the Crowd Supply page looks amazing, and this one is comparatively plain. But still much better than just a laser-cut box, and if the layered design wasn't feasible at the scale it needed to be, there's only so much you can do about that.
Plus this is much less wasteful of materials - this looks like something you could cut on a 12"x12" sheet of plywood, whereas the previous design required much more (because you couldn't really use the leftover pieces from cutting the inner layers).
Actually heck, if the dimensions are roughly the same as the ones posted on CS for the old case, you could probably even fit two per 12"x12" sheet. :) (Assuming I'm not utterly failing at math, heh.)
On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Jonathan Frederickson silverskullpsu@gmail.com wrote:
Well, design-wise it doesn't look as good either... I must say the version on the Crowd Supply page looks amazing, and this one is comparatively plain. But still much better than just a laser-cut box, and if the layered design wasn't feasible at the scale it needed to be, there's only so much you can do about that.
Plus this is much less wasteful of materials - this looks like something you could cut on a 12"x12" sheet of plywood, whereas the previous design required much more (because you couldn't really use the leftover pieces from cutting the inner layers).
Hi,
Am Sat, 29 Apr 2017 14:39:54 -0500 schrieb Louis Pearson desttinghimgame@gmail.com:
I think it is as good as or better than the case shown on crowd supply.
same for me. And I also like the resource-friendlyness of this design.
Keep on the good work!
Cheers, Lars
On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 8:01 PM, Jonathan Frederickson silverskullpsu@gmail.com wrote:
Plus this is much less wasteful of materials - this looks like something you could cut on a 12"x12" sheet of plywood, whereas the previous design required much more (because you couldn't really use the leftover pieces from cutting the inner layers).
yeahyeah, the previous version was c-shaped pieces, 3mm thick. this is 20mm for top and bottom and 15mm for the sides, which are rectangular. on 2 600x600mm pieces i managed to fit i think it was 6 each of the top/bottom pieces and... goodness knows how many of the sides. 20 of each or something.
so yes it's a lot less wasteful.
l.
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On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 6:49 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net wrote:
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On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 5:53 PM, Lyberta lyberta@lyberta.net wrote:
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton:
That looks much worse than the photos on CrowdSupply.
they have professional camera equipment, a proper studio, and they take very hi-res photos. i scale all the pictures that i publish down to 1024x768 in order to save space on my server. and also tend to take pictures under standard room lights.
... plus, also, i remembered: that's maple, and it's been linseed-oiled. also, we didn't show close-ups but there are a lot of gaps in the original, through which you can see into the interior.
l.
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