Re: case manufacturing

2008-12-13 Thread Tobias Kündig
I made a case mockup a little while ago. But I never had time to create a 3D model. I came across a few problems while I designed the case: - The Freerunner doesn't have any buttons on its front. In addition to that, the borders left and right from the display are pretty large (around

Re: case manufacturing

2008-12-13 Thread arne anka
- The Freerunner doesn't have any buttons on its front. In addition to i'd pretty much like to see at least some kind of 5-way rocker switch -- i do not know how rakshat will implement an usb keyboard, but it might be a way for hw freaks to do the same with some simple buttons only.

Re: case manufacturing

2008-12-13 Thread Vincent Pomageot
Take a look at what swisscom have made : http://www.om.vptt.ch/site/?page_id=53 ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: case manufacturing

2008-12-13 Thread Milos Mandaric
U Sub, 13. 12. 2008., u 13:56 +0100, Vincent Pomageot je napisao/la: Take a look at what swisscom have made : http://www.om.vptt.ch/site/?page_id=53 ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: case manufacturing

2008-12-13 Thread arne anka
Take a look at what swisscom have made : http://www.om.vptt.ch/site/?page_id=53 nice. but the link as such is far nicer. didn't recall that swisscom was working on imporvements of the freerunner -- there are a few interesting posts in this blog.

Re: case manufacturing

2008-12-12 Thread DJDAS
rakshat hooja ha scritto: ponoko.com http://ponoko.com would do it for you, or emachineshop.com http://emachineshop.com if you get some pricing, could you let us know -- even your desgin? i am still pondering the idea of a new casing ... Thanks. will update when I get

Re: case manufacturing

2008-12-12 Thread Dale Maggee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 rakshat hooja wrote: ponoko.com would do it for you, or emachineshop.com if you get some pricing, could you let us know -- even your desgin? i am still pondering the idea of a new casing ... Thanks. will update when I get pricing. My design is

Re: case manufacturing

2008-12-12 Thread rakshat hooja
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.comwrote: 2008/12/12 rakshat hooja raks...@gmail.com: Thanks. will update when I get pricing. My design is still at the idea stage - add a USB keyboard (qwerty) into the case design itself. Will make it heavier but helps

Re: case manufacturing

2008-12-12 Thread Dareus
would it be possible, this way, to find a possible way to remove the frame around the screen? In other words: could a new case be made that hasn't the frame around the screen? that would increase the usable surface -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/case-manufacturing

Re: case manufacturing

2008-12-12 Thread arne anka
would it be possible, this way, to find a possible way to remove the frame around the screen? In other words: could a new case be made that hasn't the frame around the screen? that would increase the usable surface my thoughts exactly ;-) any help from the hardware guys or those having

Re: case manufacturing

2008-12-12 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
arne anka wrote: would it be possible, this way, to find a possible way to remove the frame around the screen? In other words: could a new case be made that hasn't the frame around the screen? that would increase the usable surface my thoughts exactly ;-) any help from the hardware

case manufacturing

2008-12-11 Thread rakshat hooja
Does anyone know where one can get alternate case designs for the freerunner manufactured in quantities of less than 100. Any information would be appreciated. Rakshat -- -- Please use Firefox as your web browser. Its protects you from spyware and is also a very feature rich

Re: case manufacturing

2008-12-11 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/12/11 rakshat hooja [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anyone know where one can get alternate case designs for the freerunner manufactured in quantities of less than 100. Any information would be appreciated. ponoko.com would do it for you, or emachineshop.com there are a few companies around that

Re: case manufacturing

2008-12-11 Thread arne anka
rakshat, ponoko.com would do it for you, or emachineshop.com if you get some pricing, could you let us know -- even your desgin? i am still pondering the idea of a new casing ... ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: case manufacturing

2008-12-11 Thread Filip Onkelinx
Shapeways seems to be a decent 3D-printing shop, with different materials to choose from: http://www.shapeways.com/ F. On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:58:08 +0100, rakshat hooja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know where one can get alternate case designs for the freerunner manufactured

Re: case manufacturing

2008-12-11 Thread Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen
Thursday 11 December 2008 skrev rakshat hooja: ponoko.com would do it for you, or emachineshop.com if you get some pricing, could you let us know -- even your desgin? i am still pondering the idea of a new casing ... Thanks. will update when I get pricing. My design is still at the idea

Re: case manufacturing

2008-12-11 Thread rakshat hooja
ponoko.com would do it for you, or emachineshop.com if you get some pricing, could you let us know -- even your desgin? i am still pondering the idea of a new casing ... Thanks. will update when I get pricing. My design is still at the idea stage - add a USB keyboard (qwerty) into the case

Re: case manufacturing

2008-12-11 Thread Steve Mosher
There are a few options. Tully can explain. rakshat hooja wrote: Does anyone know where one can get alternate case designs for the freerunner manufactured in quantities of less than 100. Any information would be appreciated. Rakshat

Re: case manufacturing

2008-12-11 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/12/12 rakshat hooja raks...@gmail.com: Thanks. will update when I get pricing. My design is still at the idea stage - add a USB keyboard (qwerty) into the case design itself. Will make it heavier but helps my use case as I want to stop carrying my laptop with me when I have the Freerunner