Pretty cool indeed! ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian White To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2017 10:39 PM Subject: Re: [M100] Molex part number
One of my Shapeways orders came in. This is the cheapest option Shapeways offers, and it turns out the cheapest lowest quality option (from Shapeways) is good enough. The white one is the "White Strong Flexible", with no extra finishing options added. The black one is the same thing just black. The print is accurate enough that everything fits perfect, and the material is strong enough that it doesn't break when you install or remove the module from the socket. I have a couple more still on the way, in more expensive material and quality options. This is cool but not really that useful except for Model 600. This is great for 600, because 600 takes a standard 27C256 pinout. Just slap a 27C256 in the carrier and you have a model 600 option rom. But 100, 102, and 200 don't have a normal pinout, so the only way this could be used is if you had some kind of pcb in the carrier instead of a normal dip28 chip. Hm, that might be a neat idea after all. You could pack a rex or a figtronix into one instead of using extraction ribbons and pieces of cardstock spacers. We could modify the cad file pretty easily to make a version customized to fit a REX exactly. Then you get the key slots so you can't plug the rom in backwards, and it's just a cleaner tidier little module than one with ribbon and cardboard. Pretty cool! https://photos.app.goo.gl/IHQCxST40Cp72NLj1 https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bys6eLbSbYyhTFItVWZjU2xJd0E -- bkw
