[Arm-netbook] Getting started making new housings?

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

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crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68


On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 5:24 AM, Louis Pearson
<desttinghimgame at 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-design

l.