{"id":236,"date":"2018-03-01T19:28:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T19:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/?p=236"},"modified":"2018-03-15T09:21:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T09:21:42","slug":"modelling-the-amiga-amiga-1000-front-flap-for-modification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"Modelling the Amiga: Amiga 1000 front flap for modification"},"content":{"rendered":"

After being tempted for years to tinker with a 3D printer, I took the plunge last Autum.\u00c2\u00a0 But what am I doing with it?\u00c2\u00a0 Printing all those bits that you need, but can’t find…<\/p>\n

Part 1: the front cover for the Amiga 1000.\u00c2\u00a0 Quite a few 1000s seem to be missing this part as they are wont to fall off in storage, or whilst being transported, or wherever.<\/p>\n

I have a GBA 1000<\/a> which adds (amongst other things) an IDE interface. on which I use a CF card with an IDE adapter.\u00c2\u00a0 I also have a Gotek floppy drive emulator, which has a small display and needs a USB slot, and a couple of buttons…\u00c2\u00a0 I have been tempted more than once to make modifications to the front cover, such as cutting a slot for the CF.<\/p>\n

But cutting 30 year old irreplaceable stuff is not something I want to do.<\/p>\n

\"A1K<\/a>

A1K RAM Cover<\/p><\/div>\n

And hence, I’ve spent an evening with calipers, ruler, and OpenSCAD<\/a> to model a replacement.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 OpenSCAD is an interesting modelling tool, as rather than WYSIWYG editing, you define your model using Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) primitives – and CSG was the subject of my final year degree project.<\/p>\n

So rather than defining polygons, you define a cube, subtract another cube, union with another cube, rotate, translate, iterate… just in text.<\/p>\n

The result can be seen here.<\/p>\n

I will release the OpenSCAD file eventually, however for now I am making the STL available on Thingiverse<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 – I have updated to v2, removing 0.5mm width to allow a better fit and adding strengthening for the thin vertical clip pieces.\u00c2\u00a0 They are very fragile, so if printing with supports be careful when removing the supports!<\/p>\n

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After being tempted for years to tinker with a 3D printer, I took the plunge last Autum.\u00c2\u00a0 But what am I doing with it?\u00c2\u00a0 Printing all those bits that you need, but can’t find…...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amiga","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}