After my laptop dead I didn’t really want to spend a £1000s on a new one and I needed something powerful that I could be relatively mobile as I sometimes need it for photo shoots.
Anyway it turned out ok but it was a bit on the heavy side. So one of my 1st laser cutting jobs will be to rebuild the frame. Hopefully it will look something like this.
In the original screen the control board was just below a very flexible plastic cover. When you pressed it it engaged with the board. I’m currently trying to work out how I can recreate this. Is there anything that we can laser cut that is flexible enough to give way when I press it?
Nice solution! Guessing something like this doesn’t work in your design, then.
For the laser cut buttons panel, what about using a kerf bend in some way? Also, those look like capacitive buttons - maybe you don’t need to have something mechanically touch them to work?
Actually that probably would be a good alternative and I would of maybe gone down that road if it had of come up in the goggle surch at the time `:grinning: . Turned out quite fortuitous actually as the look of usbs I’ve ended up with will be more low profile.
In terms of the buttons I’m thinking something like this
This is done in wood but the final will be acrylic.
The idea is to cut a hole and then cut a fill slightly smaller and use maybe use mastic to bond them and fill the space. The mastic will mean I can press down on the fill part which will engage with whatever is underneath.
Does that make sense?
Thanks for the input by the way.
I would be more than happy. Still a bit to do on it though. Would they be interested in work in progress or a finished thing?
On the original I had a tripod plate on the back. I was thinking about using carbon fiber as a back so that it would be able to support the plate.
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