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Teenage Engineering's free computer case
- al_borland 1y agoSold Out. I was expected this to be a 3D print design people could grab for free.
- synack 1y agoLooking at the build PDF, you'd need a pretty large printer to do a single piece like that. Would need to split it into a few panels and have some sort of joinery or fasteners to make it fit on most consumer printers.
- iancmceachern 1y agoThis (breaking it up and adding the "jointery") is handled right in the slicer now, easy peesie.
- peddling-brink 1y agoWhat do you mean by this? I’ve only used bambu’s slicer and never seen anything to indicate it can automatically add “jointery”?
- iancmceachern 1y agoYou're going to love it! https://youtu.be/zTZOH6XkUPU?si=MoOx8Hqy6xvMKvn6 https://youtu.be/zTZOH6XkUPU?si=MoOx8Hqy6xvMKvn6
- peddling-brink 1y agoHuzzah! Thanks for that!
- nine_k 1y agoIt's not for printing, it's for cutting out of a thick sheet of plastic, as much as I understand.
- bsimpson 1y agoAt the bottom of the page, it looks like this is a giveaway for August, and that there were OP-1 giveaways in June and July. The OP-1 is their flagship synthesizer. Makes me wonder if this is starting a press cycle for something they'll release for sale in the nearish future.
- plasticbugs 1y agoNot giveaways, but it was instead a "name your own price" discount that allowed you to pay as little as $1399 and as much as $9999 (your choice) for an OP-1. What's bizarre is throughout the month of July, the OP-1 Field was completely SOLD OUT. And it felt pretty galling to their customers they would have this "name your price" promotion continue into July with the same device as the previous month - most people expected them to switch up which item would get the discount. No one was able to purchase an OP-1 from July 1 - July 31 at any price on their site.
- senectus1 1y agoi mean... this should be a thing. hmmm now you have me thinking.
- uoaei 1y agoHas anyone tried using this with a Framework mainboard?
- jdiff 1y agoThey're both Mini-ITX.
- brandokyk 1y agothey have a branding problem - they are starting to being perceived like a snobby brand with ridiculously overpriced products sold as a status symbol - a Balanciaga of creative tech basically so they are trying to put out some cheap good value products to signal a return of the original hacker ethos
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- wahnfrieden 1y agoThey’ve always had those two tiers of pricing/products. That’s a read from a decade ago
- isoprophlex 1y agoBrowsing through their store I see only the "overpriced balenciaga-tier bullshit" category though... Edit: i kinda take that back, as two people pointed out that EP-133 sampler actually has an okay feature-to-price ratio. But $250 leather wraps to "transport" your OP-1 in tho, or $250 singing wooden dolls without obvious interfaces except bluetooth midi... i guess I'm not the target market
- grimoald 1y agoThe pocket operators and the EP-133 sampler are fairly priced.
- imp0cat 1y agoYeah, the pocket operators are fine. starting to being perceived [...] brand with ridiculously overpriced products I am confused, I thought they always were perceived as such a brand. Perhaps not snobby, but great stuff, which is also expensive.
- unfunco 1y agoThe field system is probably what you're seeing, products like the EP-133 are reasonably priced: https://teenage.engineering/store/ep-133 https://teenage.engineering/store/ep-133
- userbinator 1y agoFree as in speech or beer...? I wonder if they used static-dissipative/ESD-safe plastic, as pure polypropylene is good insulator and easily builds up a static charge. There's a reason nearly all computer cases are conductive.
- dmos62 1y agoWouldn't the power supply ground all static?
- barkingcat 1y agothis case is conductive, precisely so the excess charge can be grounded by the power supply by being in touch/contact with the psu metallic casing. the psu is grounded, but the static has no way of getting to ground (via psu) if the case itself is non-conductive.
- ludicrousdispla 1y agoProbably not guaranteed, I've often wondered why my clothes out of the dryer have a static charge when the dryer is plugged into a grounded outlet.
- maxbond 1y agoThat had never occurred to me but is a great question. I suppose between the poor conductivity of the fabric and the paint inside the dryer, the system is very well insulated. Maybe a dryer with bare walls could be antistatic without the use of dryer sheets. But maybe that would be a fire hazard.
- bob1029 1y agoAs the clothes get dryer they become less conductive. Even if there was a perfect path to ground, the charge wouldn't be able to get there across the material itself.
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- judge123 1y agoI'm genuinely torn on this. On one hand, I love the DIY vibe. On the other, isn't paying $195 for a flat-pack metal box the most anti-DIY thing ever?
- fifilura 1y agoGiving things away for free is one way to round tariffs I guess. "More flipped out '25 offers will be presented during the rest of the year (Or until the world is a little more stable)." https://teenage.engineering/25-the-flipped-out-year https://teenage.engineering/25-the-flipped-out-year
- ornornor 1y agoThat completely flew over my head. I can’t parse the sentence to understand if they’re making a statement or what they mean. What is a “flipped out ‘25 offer”?
- fifilura 1y agoI was focusing more on the "Or until the world is a little more stable" part. I am guessing they have a lot of customers in USA, so they are hit by tariffs.
- em-bee 1y agoWhat is a “flipped out ‘25 offer”? a offer that is "flipped out" or crazy, weird, unusual, exceptional in the crazy sense. "flipped out" is someone who seemingly lost control of themselves or does something very unusual. "he flipped out because something went wrong". an attribute easily ascribed to what's happening in the US this year, the behavior of the current US president, and many other events.
- TabTwo 1y agoCurious question, this case is pure PP. What about shilding EMV emissions? Is this "legal" to run a pc open like that?
- c-c-c-c-c 1y agoYes because this is just a case, if you build a product in it and sell it then you need to meet EMC regulations (EC marking in europe).
- dspillett 1y agoIt varies, but in many places you couldn't sell a device without proper shielding, but unless you are causing disruption to a public service or safety equipment there is nothing that stops a person owning and running one. Just think of the world full of rPi units, other SBCs, and other PCs, running completely caseless or in cases without much/any thought towards EMC shielding - it obviously isn't a problem, or it would be a big problem. Most rPi units and similar are fine as they can be argued to be sold as parts rather than devices just like any other motherboard¹. The Pi400 presumably gets away with it, as something this is conspicuously sold as a device not a part, because that chonky heatsink² is enough to disrupt any errant EM fields outside the ranges that it should be emitting (those around 2.4GHz and 5GHz). There are many grey areas, and indeed those where the letter of the regs is broken but not enforced. To cut a long story short wrt “Is this "legal" to run a pc open like that?”: yes running a PC in a case like that with no extra shielding is legal pretty much everywhere, though selling a complete PC with a case like that probably breaks regs and maybe even laws. ---- [1] putting the responsibility with the purchaser, where it isn't enforced unless it is a problem (I chose not to shield my TV-box Pi4, not the company, and it isn't putting enough junk out to disrupt anyone else's anything else) [2] everything else about the case is plastic