The story of the Anelok case continues. I made a crude design for the bottom part, with a few known bugs (such as the battery wall not leaving any space for the clip) that would need manual attention.
The milling went quite well: http://downloads.qi-hardware.com/people/werner/anelok/tmp/case-bot-raw.jpg The interesting features are: - at 10 o'clock: the bay for the memory card (it is "internal" and can only be removed by opening the case) - at 11 o'clock: an opening for Micro USB (receptacle and visiting plug) - center: a wall to hold the battery in place. - 6 o'clock: a way too small opening for the kill switch. In some of the other pictures it can be seen after manual enlarging. This is what both case halves look like together: http://downloads.qi-hardware.com/people/werner/anelok/tmp/case-bot-empty.jpg The battery needs a contact at its side or at its top. This is my hackish solution: http://downloads.qi-hardware.com/people/werner/anelok/tmp/case-bot-clip.jpg It's not great but works sometimes. This picture shows Anelok running entirely from battery power: http://downloads.qi-hardware.com/people/werner/anelok/tmp/case-bot-led.jpg "What about displaying something ?" you may ask. Well, as I mentioned last week, the OLED didn't appreciate the treatment it received when I tried to force it into its place in the top shell. So I had to replace it. This is the new one, with a bumper that pushes it gently onto the top shell: http://downloads.qi-hardware.com/people/werner/anelok/tmp/oled-bumper.jpg This is what Anelok looks like with both case halves (only the top half is painted), displaying something: http://downloads.qi-hardware.com/people/werner/anelok/tmp/case-bot-usb.jpg It would of course be even more interesting if all this was on battery power alone. But that will need a few small software changes (I hope :) One last picture: a sketch of the vertical stacking of Anelok: http://downloads.qi-hardware.com/people/werner/anelok/tmp/anelok-stacking-sketch.jpg Been too lazy to make a CAD drawing of it. And it will change a bit anyway. The case looks reasonabaly good. There is a small gap between the two halves that may be caused by them gripping the PCB too tightly, or maybe it's the OLED pushing down. Another issue is that the wheel can be blocked if the case halves are even slightly torn. But the wheel spins freely once everything has settled into its place. - Werner _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
