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Seems a little backwards to me to design your case and then design the motherboard to fit inside it, but I've never built any laptops so I'll just watch and see
by FussyZeus 11y ago
Seems a little backwards to me to design your case and then design the motherboard to fit inside it, but I've never built any laptops so I'll just watch and see where this goes.
- mafuyu 11y agoThis is Olimex's blog, and they design and sell dev boards, so it makes some kind of sense to leave the part that you have full control over to the end, I suppose.
- fredsir 11y agoThe proper way would be to build all parts to fit each other, so you got everything done properly. I imagine that is how Apple does their things anyways.
- emeraldd 11y agoYou have to start somewhere to be able to set your constraints. If you already know how the hardware works and what will be required there. It makes sense to do a gross estimate for the enclosure and design a board to fit.
- caboteria 11y agoTooling for injection molded plastic is very expensive so for small-volume runs like this one it's likely cheaper and quicker to get off-the-shelf plastic.