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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: Amiduffer on February 18, 2007, 11:47:45 PM
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I just posted a couple of pictures of a possible minimig case design. They aren't up yet, but, is anyone putting together pictures of of cases that people would like to see?
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I would not mind creating computer cases for Amiga.
A cad drawing and 3D rendering would be good.
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Just a silly question: Who is going to get these cases manufactured? Wouldn't it require run of tens of thousands to actually make any sense?
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My next door neighbor owns a plastic injection molding company where a small run could be done, and he would not charge me a fortune for a setting up molds if we can help by providing the design CAD drawings to him.
I am willing to help in this way if it will move us closer to having a finished product for the few of us that are interested in building our own Minimig's
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A 3D design contest would be interesting.
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Praise the friendly neighbor :-D
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for those of us who need to make parts but don't have leet friends there is http://emachineshop.com/ .
Their software is okay and their prices are a lot less than what I worked out with local places and you won't need autocad or have to hash it out with ther machinists on limits because their cad software is designed to have a good correspondence with their toolchain.
I designed this crap with their stuff, havn't had it made as it turned out that a pick and place approach made this part irrelevant.
(http://koft.net/beads/final%20linkage%20design%20transparent%20polys%20nice%20view.PNG)
(http://koft.net/beads/final%20linkage%20design%20wireframe.PNG)
Sorry if this post comes off like a spam, its not intended. I just think this place has some good deals and some easy to use software if you need to make a specific part for a machine.
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Ok, they're up now.
Kind of messy, but its something I threw together in a couple of hours. Hope someone can come up with something better looking. Extra points if it looks artistic.
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my 2 cents...
http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=1927 (http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=1927)
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This is retro, we've had retro things inside joysitcks but looking at the form factor of the MiniMig 1.0 board it is too big to fit in a Joystick.
Can anyone think of anything stereo-typically Retro that it might fit in?
Lets excluding old Amiga computer cases to make it interesting.
I think an old GVP HD8+ case might be ok, but a little big. It would give it that Amiga shape and feel.
A Cumana External Floppy drive case?
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I'd rather have the unit on a PCI board that I could run inside a normal computer :-)
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How about one of those mini keyboards for PDA's (like this) (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Super-Mini-Slim-USB-PS2-Keyboard-7-Multimedia-HotKeys_W0QQitemZ250085594351QQihZ015QQcategoryZ31568QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)
In a more Amiga style, with an MMC card slot on the right hand side as well as some 9pin D Subs (or those mini HD9 D subs)
Make it look like a real tiny Amiga.
That said the link above to a minimac type design is very cool too.