Up core case

Thomas Hall

For anyone interested, I have designed a 3d-printed case for the UP core. Eventually UP will make their own, and this will become redundant. But in the mean-time, I need a case! Once I've checked out my prototype, I'll make the design available for order from shapeways. Prices are set by them, unfortunately, not by me, so will be reasonably pricey ~$30 for coloured plastic.

I'll post some photos here once I have a prototype.

Hans Erik Lange

Why not post the design on thingiverse?

fnoop

Great! Shapeways sucks - it's slow and expensive . How about posting the files so we can print on https://www.3dhubs.com/ or a similar better service?

Thomas Hall

That is rude. I am nothing to do with UP. I just thought other people might want to use my 3d files.

fnoop

Sorry you feel that way, I wasn't intending to be rude to you in any way. I've had two really bad experiences with shapeways - very expensive and took months to get delivered from another country. A service like 3d hubs though puts you in contact with lots of local 3d printers - it's a fantastic service. I've been able to send 3d files through 3d hubs and get them printed at a much cheaper price within a couple of days at a local printer, in fact depending on where you live you get a selection of local printers that you can go and pick it up from. Plus a lot of hobbysists/DIYers these days have their own 3d printers, which is a likely target audience around here.
And even if Up produce and sell their cases (which they're not yet, that I can see), it's often cheaper and quicker to print one locally - Up doesn't have a shop in my country (UK), so your (or any) downloadable and printable case is still very useful.

Intel did a similar thing with their ill fated Joule - they posted 3d files for two separate cases for the Joule that I was able to download and get printed through 3d hubs within 24 hours for a few £.
https://software.intel.com/en-us/node/733190
https://software.intel.com/en-us/node/733189

Thomas Hall

OK cool. Apology accepted. I thought that was rather personal before, but now I realise it was just a misunderstanding .
Let me take a look at 3dhubs. I'll wait for my proto from shapeways first.

Thomas Hall

fnoop wrote:

Great! Shapeways sucks - it's slow and expensive . How about posting the files so we can print on https://www.3dhubs.com/ or a similar better service?

I've taken a look at 3dhubs, and I have to say that I am impressed! There are local people near me in Essex (UK) that can send for much cheaper, and much quicker, than shapeways. Very cool. Apologies for the misunderstanding on my part.

fnoop

Cool, looking forward to it!