The final part of Ben Heckendorn’s Wii Laptop How-To is up. Somehow, Ben managed to get access to a laser cutter and a CNC machine (in friggin Iowa) and used em to create the new case for the Wii Laptop. Add dash of soldering, a few simple circuits and some clever case construction. Voila.
Still not as good as vacuum tables, or resin molding.
Boxed form cases are getting bland, but making professional quality casted cases like you see on off the shelf laptops is either expensive, or messy, and expensive.
Those translucent plastic clipboards are perfect for ITX laptops, and you can temper form the plastic with low heat.
Posted at 7:40 pm on Feb 6th, 2007 by TJhooker
seams to be very well built, though, in the end, all it amounts to is a negligably thinner wii with a hopelessly small screen afixed to the side
Posted at 8:47 pm on Feb 6th, 2007 by wolf
Come on, wolf, Your making the other wolfs look bad :P i hope the controler doesnt break the screen on this. that would be funny! well, now im just being stupid.
Posted at 10:33 pm on Feb 6th, 2007 by Metal Wolf
It’s a fantastic job! … only thing is, and I saw mention of this on the Engadged site also, that the lid (screen) is smaller then the base of the WII laptop.. IMHO it would have looked a lot better if it were just as wide and maybe a bit bigger display would have fit in there. But none the less, fokking amazing job!
In Iowa…
>.<
Dangin guys we aren’t that backwards here.
Lookit what the STATE University has
http://www.iastate.edu/~nscentral/news/06/may/c6update.shtml
Posted at 10:13 am on Feb 7th, 2007 by IA_Echo_Hotel
ben’s work is always immaculate. another great work.
[ps - will, are you a fellow mizzou'er?]
Posted at 12:51 pm on Feb 7th, 2007 by adam
dont diss iowa, we make your corn. without us there would be no cornbread!!!!
Posted at 4:52 pm on Feb 7th, 2007 by matt
laser cutter; now there’s a new idea for my homemade cnc router.
Posted at 5:19 pm on Feb 7th, 2007 by crgwbr
i used to work for an engraving shop and it didn’t take me long to figure out that a laser engraver is just a laser cutter set to “raster.” as soon as i switched its settings over to “vector” i was making stencils & cutting all kinds of shapes out of sheet plastic.
Holy crap, I want one!
Posted at 9:48 pm on May 18th, 2009 by Princessb89
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Werd. I’m a gonna have me a laser cutter one a these days…Nice job!
Posted at 2:23 pm on Feb 6th, 2007 by punish3r