[OpenTRV-dev] box..

[Damon Hart-Davis]

Hi,

Thingiverse from the point of view of OpenTRV: I think that it may be useful to push copies of our more useful STL (or whatever) up there with links back to our primary repositories / Web site.  That would help people find our 3D stuff (since that's where they'll go to look for 3D printables) and then find the rest of our project(s) if also useful to them.

Dunno.

Rgds

Damon


On 13 Oct 2013, at 12:55, Bo Herrmannsen wrote:

> Np in the copy
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> I dont know if its a benefit to use thingiverse but in my eyes the advantage is that there is an platform that everyone can access, select options etc... and get an stl file they either can print directly or import in stuff like makerware
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> my goal with the arduino box generator is to be able to have all arduino types there, and in future select what shield you have on top and then print a case that holds it all... kind of in between task when no other tasks are pressing on...
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> -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- From: Damon Hart-Davis
> Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2013 1:15 PM
> To: Bo Herrmannsen ; Closed list for developer discussions
> Cc: Damon Hart-Davis ; Bruno Girin
> Subject: Re: box..
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> On 13 Oct 2013, at 00:57, Bo Herrmannsen wrote:
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>> the box i hacked together from another thing on thingiverse can be found here:
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>> http://www.thingiverse.com/apps/customizer/run?thing_id=164778&code=26205aa7d2a70d00d0700dcdee3b5c56
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>> the parameters can be hidden, ie if say i want the case to be a set thickness i can just hide the setting and it will use the default value
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>> maybe this can be used for our case also? you dont have to be registered to to download the scad file... but you need to if you want to tweak and save it as a “thing”
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>> maybe it could be used for those users who have a 3d printer and want to print themselfes and not us?
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>> /bo
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> Hi Bo,
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> (I have copied this to the list.)
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> Very good point there at the end: we should keep our case designs usable by ordinary hackers/makers as much as our code and schematics and PCBs, which supports your general sentiment.
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> Also, as a side point, and to get people started more easily, it means we should carefully select and check in commonly-useful versions of the (generated) STL as well as any up stream source for it in the same way that we check in the Gerbers for the PCBs.  Though saving generated intermediate files is generally considered poor form, for particular common and useful intermediates that speed up bootstrapping a system (or checking that generation of them is going to plane), I think we should do it.
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> Rgds
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> Damon