Wow, those came out great!
On 7/20/2017 10:39 PM, Brian White wrote:
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
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