Update regarding the cases (and some other things)


Great pictures, the one before the last gives a pretty good idea about the looks of the material. Well done!
I smell flying prototypes quite soon now. :)
 
Aaah, why did no one remind me to post the new pictures yesterday? :)

The new material looks better. Still a few marks, but these should be fixed with the coating in the end.

And yep, those parts are being neatly packaged up for shipping.

Is that a clear case piece I see in that blend? I want to see a clear case with black nubs, black shoulder buttons and black lid decoration.
 
As I see, the keyboard-part is the only missing thing.
Hope they did it yesterday and you recieve everything this weekend to produce the prototypes and videos

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Looks really nice. Now there is no shrinking or it's minimal. I think these marks visible in 4th photo are from material flow and they shouldn't be visible if surface will be modified by good coating.
 
I'm only speculating here, but I imagine that the coating would act to lubricate the mould, and that might change the material flow dynamics enough to eliminate the marks.

-Neelix
 
I'm only speculating here, but I imagine that the coating would act to lubricate the mould, and that might change the material flow dynamics enough to eliminate the marks.

-Neelix
And likely requires a hardened mould, which would be why they can't do it yet.
 
I think that coating will provide both lubrication and thermal spreading making achievement of steady state much faster. I don't know how it's in plastics forming, but in metal forming when we use the same set of tools to process more and more hot products, we finally go to "steady state" which means that temperature repeats its cycles in consecutive processes.
So if everything will be OK in steady-state conditions it'll be OK in most products, while only in first ones may not be the best. This is from metallurgy point of view, in plastics maybe they use pre-heating?
Sorry if I messed something, too long without sleep.
 
Does anyone know what is up with the cellophane wrapping? Is that a package to send them to another location to be coated or it's a part of cooling process or what not?
 
Thank you for the steady stream of updates, ED, really appreciated.
And thank you fellow forum members for smart remarks about manufacturing processes I didn't know anything about. Really illuminating/
 
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I was a bit concerned at the shininess in the close up of the lid, however the other pics make it seem that it is just due to the lighting.

Did I miss the transparent or translucent logo diffuser piece in the pics?

I would really love to see a fully assembled unit with the new keymat and the logo plate, both illuminated, maybe with a bunch of pretty colours for the logo. Maybe we can also get more Glamour Shots of some software to go with the logo ones.
 
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