Does anyone know of the L/W/H in centimeters? I'm 3D printing an enclosure for my Raspberry Pi and want it to look similar to this floppy drive. Thanks in advance!
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Why do you want it similar to your raspberry pi?
So I can put my Pi inside of it without needing an actual floppy drive, and instead use my own enclosure.
Thanks, MinerAl!
But why must the Pi go in a floppy drive enclosure?
Forgot to switch the plastic spools, so the entire thing is black now. The good news is that the rear cover is finished! The bad news is that I mixed up the files and now I have two of them.
I'm not sure. We've got a CNC cutter and machining station for metallic things, but our printer uses what's essentially a spool of weedeater thread.
Update: Need to edit and re-print the rear cover, the holes for USB and ethernet are a bit too small, plus the ethernet port needs to be flush. :-/
I'd like to see if we can order some Navy blue and make a Zip-Drive sort of thing.So you could make a fluorescent orange external FDD?!?!
Cool.
Part 1 is easy. Finding a Mac TV, on the other hand... :?:
A to-scale would use a lot of plastic and it isn't that cheap. That, and the Pi doesn't need that much room to begin with. The most scaling I've done is for the length, as it would just be empty space. I've left enough room inside for cables and a tiny fan, as the little Samsung System-on-a-chip generates a fair bit of heat.
When I print the new rear panel I'll probably add some tiny vents. The current one was originally intended for a DE-9 carrying a combo of A/V signals, but I ditched the idea in favor of using a single HDMI cord.
And yes, the printer is limited to a size of 1' by 1', IIRC.
This is actually one of the first projects I'd considered. Unfortunately there aren't any translucent plastics for this printer, it's a bit old.
The case finished printing. Currently Re-printing the rear case and added cooling vents/larger ports. Due to a modeling error on my part, the case now has white stripes. It uses two plastics when printing; A white plastic for building support structures while printing, and black/other colors for the actual model. Why it added support structures mid-part is unbeknownst to me.
I've heard that sometimes the support material is made to be water soluble, or at least weaker, in order to make it easier to remove. Therefore it could fall apart with age.
Are you sure that the model was not too large, so it added support material because it couldn't do it all in one go? (Sometimes even though the size limit is x by y by z that doesn't mean it can do something which is x by y by z all in one go.)
Are you sure that the model was not too large, so it added support material because it couldn't do it all in one go? (Sometimes even though the size limit is x by y by z that doesn't mean it can do something which is x by y by z all in one go.)
The support plastic isn't soluble here. In fact, it's too strong. The pins that were supposed to hold the pi snapped off when I was removing the support structure. We've had larger prints without mysterious support plastic appearances, so this is very likely a modeling fault.
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