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if somebody is serious about one of these hacks, i've got a pretty complete sheet metal shop (wood, plastic, plexi or just about anything else you can think of too probably) and would be happy to fab some aluminum, galvanized or black steel up to 18 or 20 gauge (16 max.). being in new youk, i really don't have much of a chance for inexpensive liberations. making interesting things is my real joy in life and i could use a little of that right now, so barter deals for extra macs, cards, monitors, etc. would be great if it sounds good to somebody else.

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p.s. macquarium inserts would be duck soup for me too.

p.p.s. the sheet metal stuff in the pics dana put up for me is really rough stuff that i've just thrown together for the shop/office, a lot of it out of scrap. people who have seen it have been a lot more impressed by it than i am. i've got a portfolio full of good stuff if anybody has any doubts about my ability to deliver. please don't take any of this as bragging, it's an honest proposal and i've tried not to come off that way, thanks.

Oooh anyone have an aluminium alloy foundry/chroming process plant?... I wanna solid alloy 605 case in chrome!

dana (am I getting carried away... again...?)

p.s. sheesh, googling for that link was faster than typing the freaking title! maybe this internet c**p really does work . . . . . but i cheated, i had his full name in front of me!

omilord. Now... the 605 case would be a nice idea, but the stands for the open-computer I'd imagined earlier, I'd imagined as being cast aluminium. They wouldn't need to be terribly accurate, that would come with the drilling I suppose...

Although me and anything dangerous is a bad combination. I'd head into it with the plan of creating something awesome, and come out with a cast-impression-of-my-own-foot or something :D

dana (clumsy)

i'm going to do a keyboard hacking how-to eventually, first installment will be instructions for determining compatability of switch type and matrix configuration for any given keyboard hack. *see footnote

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short version: get out a screwdriver and look at all the freakin' parts of the one you want to hack and do the same to as many keyboard types as it takes to find a way to hack the switch matrix ouput of the first keyboard to a suitable switch matrix input on the control board from a donor. (that's what has worked for me, anyway )

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if anybody is interested, don't do finished plans until you bounce them around with me a little bit, i'm pretty good with that 3D visualization stuff (head actually works pretty well in visual/spatial/graphical mode, it's verbal communications mode that's my downfall). i know quite a bit about different mfg/production techniques and materials choices for this kind of thing and can probably save you some work by trouble shooting fabrication processes before the schematics/prints are finalized. emailing sketches back and forth would be fun for me, but posting links to them so we could all kick 'em around would be really cool, has anybody seen anything like that on another site?

i have a feeling that we need a virtual hacks museum for some reason, wonder what could have given me that idea, hmmmmm?

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