[Arm-netbook] eoma and qimod

[joem]

On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 14:56 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 2:06 PM, joem <joem at martindale-electric.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 12:20 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 10:12 PM, joem <joem at martindale-electric.co.uk> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> >  The final jigsaw is a fully GPL'd openscad based case designs for
> >> >> >  tablet, netbooks, panel computer, and match box sized gadget.
> >> >> >  Got me four 3D printers to address that soon enough.
> >> >>
> >> >>  oo.  i have a partially-completed layout for a tablet in blender, all
> >> >> the components have "parts"representing them - touchscreen etc - it
> >> >> needs the "outside" making.  any takers?
> >> >
> >> > I got 4 printers - one of them formlabs.
> >> > I'm very proficient at openscad parametric design now as well.
> >> > If you are open sourcing it, drop the files somewhere and I
> >> > get it printed.
> >>
> >>  it needs completing.  there's no actual case, just the parts that go
> >> *in* the case (including touchscreen) so that the case can be made
> >> around them properly without screwing up.
> >
> >
> > ? I'm not sure what that means.
> 
>  there are parts inside.  it is very easy to make a case where the
> parts don't bloody well fit.
> 
>  for example the battery compartment is the wrong size. the hole for
> the camera is in the wrong place.  the connector for the touchscreen
> can't fit because there's bloody well bits of plastic in the way.
> 
>  is that clear now?

Nope. Verbosity makes things unclear.

If things don't fit, I change parameter and print again.
Its parametric. Two three iterations, and job is done!


> > The easiest option for me then is to take one of a numerous
> > number of tablets I got, strip it down and do an openscad parametric
> > design and release it fully GPL'd after making sure it can be 3D
> > printed.
> 
>  great idea.  can you use pyopenscad rather than direct openscad?

Probably.

>  if you need complex 3D bezier-specified sheets i wrote some code
> which auto-generates them (and it's in python.)
> http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:13899
> 
>   you specify a list of lists of points, tell the function how many
> intermediate points you want and it will use first a run of spline
> curves on each individual array then do a *second* run cross-array.
> 
> end result is that you can do very sparse spec'ing of a complex 3D
> shape and it will generate a smooth 3D sheet that fits exactly through
> those points.


Snap! Funny thing I needed exactly something like that for various
projects.

Any way, limit myself to 2 weeks - after that, busy again.