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He was a mechanical engineer with some experience with autocad. I have to say this is still something the average person would not be able to do. I never learn
by hristov 10y ago
He was a mechanical engineer with some experience with autocad. I have to say this is still something the average person would not be able to do.
I never learned autocad or ME, but I do remember my ME buddies from college taking their required autocad class and taking many hours to design a simple part like a pulley, and then being oh so proud of their creation. But, hey, I am sure it was much more fun than their Fortran class which they also had to take.
My point is it takes special skills, training and a lot of patience to be able to design a part and get all the dimensions right.
It would have been more interesting if he was able to glue the broken part together, then scan it, and then print a copy of the scanned part. Is that something that is easily doable nowadays?
- rtpg 10y agoI think the interesting thing is that for small communities (Game Boy revitalisations?), there is a semi-cheap way to build certain plastic replacement parts/mod parts. Sure, the person who made the piece needs to be good, but everyone can profit.
- whamlastxmas 10y agoReplacement game boy parts are available on ebay for super cheap.
- DanBC 10y agoBut people putting a raspberry pi into an old gameboy case don't want gameboy parts, they want modified gameboy parts. At the moment there will be a youtube video and an imgur gallery of where to apply the dremmel. In future there'll be downloadable 3d printing files.
- rtpg 10y agoYeah game boy might be a bad example. MSX? Or custom Commodore 64 cases (though that could be trickier because of the size)