[mdlug] Pi-top

[Jeff Hanson]

3D printing an enclosure prototype is cheaper then the tooling costs of
injection molding.  Makes sense to produce prototypes that way until the
design is finalized for production.

On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org
> wrote:

> On Fri, 2015-02-27 at 15:30 -0500, Mathew May wrote:
> > I am hoping in time that maybe the price will come down.
>
> I am sceptical;  under one of the photos is the caption: "We built a 3D
> printer to print the first Pi-Top prototypes affordably"
>
> Only 3d-printers and affordably in the same sentence is a bit of a head
> stand.  That is a very expensive way to make plastic parts; but to
> justify the cheap way to make plastic parts you need to make LOTS of
> them.
>
> The price of the other components is close to fixed; the price of
> keyboards, etc... settled to its bulk-low price already.  I do not
> believe they are going to move much more.
>
> >  Either that or maybe they make their version made their spin of the
> > OS and applications contained within available.
>
> All of that is *much* harder then assembling a case.
>
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> Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam at whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383
> Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA
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