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Which is daft because you can just cut another slot and shove a bit in at an angle to lock it — no glue needed. Also the CAD is useless unless you have the exac
by knolan 9y ago
Which is daft because you can just cut another slot and shove a bit in at an angle to lock it — no glue needed. Also the CAD is useless unless you have the exact thickness of material to laser cut since you can't adjust the cut width. This could easily have been a clever script to generate an SVG to match your material thickness and laptop dimensions.
This is submission is well below the bar for what I usually see on HN.
- falsedan 9y agoPeople will post any old drek for karma & downvote anyone who questions the frontpage algorithm's objective rightness at displaying only the hackerest articles.
- knolan 9y agoWow, you’re right. Downvotes because someone uploaded a poor laser cut design to GitHub instead of thingyverse.
- falsedan 9y agoI meant the opposite, I agree with you. If they had used an STL[0] instead of a JPG then I think people would have liked it. 0: https://help.github.com/articles/3d-file-viewer/ https://help.github.com/articles/3d-file-viewer/
- jessaustin 9y agoYes if the two halves had matching horizontal slots forming T's with the vertical slots, the whole thing would lock together with friction. That's a pretty obvious improvement.