Special Order

[Hồng Thất Công]

Hi Ed,

For the second time, I've broken the two cases for my OpenPandora, because I squeezed them too much in tense situations when playing games.  Also, I'm a rough boy and pretty much damage stuff around me if they are not made tough enough.  So due to the fragile nature of the plastic cases, would it be possible I could place a special order from you to make a silver aluminum case?.  I mean the real METAL silver case.  Please let me know.  I'll sell my house and my car to buy it 

 

[levi]

Which real metal case?  I'm not aware that anyone's ever made one.

Might be cheaper to buy a USB gamepad you can destroy instead.

 

[Hồng Thất Công]

REALY STRONG case I meant to say     I'm sure tons of people interested not just myself.

Which real metal case?  I'm not aware that anyone's ever made one.

Might be cheaper to buy a USB gamepad you can destroy instead.

Ah!  this will defeat the portability of the Pandora...  Looks a little clumsy on the bus

 

[thatgui]

This won't happen, with only ~5000 (wild guess) people having a Pandora and only a small fraction that would be interested in buying one, this would be a hughe loss.

Maybe some mod could move this into the Ask Ed section ?

 

[PokeParadox]

I think it adds too much to the cost and also break the internal wifi(even more).

For this to make sense you need a high volume of people to upgrade to the aluminium cases otherwise the price will be insane.

 

[Wally]

Aluminium cases will need a steel mould and a company that is willing to "print" these moulds.

You're probably looking at $200k.

So to answer your question.. Unless you pay the $200k the answer is nope

 

[Hồng Thất Công]

Aluminium cases will need a steel mould and a company that is willing to "print" these moulds.

You're probably looking at $200k.

So to answer your question.. Unless you pay the $200k the answer is nope

$200k for a single case?  Don't know much about 3d printing but would this be possible on a 3d printer and would it be cheaper there?

 

[sebt3]

3D printing = plastic or you have access to prototype material....

 

[KickAss]

3d printing a steel mold :lol:

with a tachyon fusion laser, probably.

 

[Hồng Thất Công]

3d printing a steel mold :lol:

with a tachyon fusion laser, probably.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=709F97ChVDI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OVZVK2lX8s

Edit:  Ed, make some calls 

 

[KickAss]

3d printing a steel mold :lol:

with a tachyon fusion laser, probably.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=709F97ChVDI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OVZVK2lX8s

Edit:  Ed, make some calls 

fair enough.

i didnt know we had tachyon fusion lasers already

amazing stuff.

still im sure production of an aluminium case is way too expensive.

 

[WizardStan]

For a one-off metal case you're probably best getting a CNC machinist to mill out the parts from solid chunks. Something the size of the Pandora case would probably run about $800 at a guess.

 

[KickAss]

on a side note the alu case will probably kill the onboard wifi for good.

 

[Hồng Thất Công]

This won't happen, with only ~5000 (wild guess) people having a Pandora and only a small fraction that would be interested in buying one, this would be a hughe loss.

Maybe some mod could move this into the Ask Ed section ?

on a side note the alu case will probably kill the onboard wifi for good.

Who cares.  The internal wifi sucks anyway.

 

[comradekingu]

What part of it is it you end up breaking?

http://www.adafruit.com/products/1036 There are some fabricators up in orange county. Also various hackerspaces with tools. http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/New_York I was able to find this manhattan based company http://www.dongming-alu.com

Id go with the hackerspaces first, tell them we are interested in buying more than just the one

 

[TrashyMG]

That RPi case is more than twice the price of the RPi itself..

 

[thatgui]

Who cares.  The internal wifi sucks anyway.

Maybe these guys are the way to go, they offer a lot of different materials.You would still need the 3D-Model though

 

[Hồng Thất Công]

Who cares.  The internal wifi sucks anyway.

Maybe these guys are the way to go, they offer a lot of different materials.
You would still need the 3D-Model though

I'm interested, but where can I get the 3d Model?  I'm sure this 3d model is Ed's and OPT's bread-and-butter.  So the only viable solution is for ED to go to this website and upload this 3d-model and see if they can make it.  But I'm sure if Ed's NOT willing to help out in this case though 

 

[siddharta]

Afaik, the design is property of Davec, so Ed wouldn't have the rigth to upload it anywhere unless he has the approval of the designer..

 

[Hồng Thất Công]

Man!  I could imagine how awesome the Pandora would be in a stainless steel case!  It would just be a different class!