Got my case from Schwanck. Looking good! Just need to get a black USB cable instead of my red one.
brumbie13 wrote:
I purchased an Elegoo Mars for this project.I have been experimenting with mixtures of a base black anycubic resin and Siraya Tech’s Blu resin, which is a much tougher resin for functional parts.
I have come close to figuring out a solution I am happy with through experimentation, but I have two main issues I’m running up against:
1) Parts of my edges are not forming correctly and so the edges don’t have the sharp clean lines I’m looking for. I have been watching videos on manually adding supports and I think that’s my answer. I’m not even really overly concerned with that, should be an easy one to solve with a bit more experimenting.
2) When I test fit parts, they work beautifully. However, what I have observed after many test fits is that the material is kind of wearing a bit and leaving a chalky residue. I’m not overly concerned about this for myself, but if I do a larger run of these for the community, I want to provide a product that looks good and functions properly. I think I wouldn’t be overly impressed if I bought a cable from someone and it started looking chalky after light use. This one is really bothering me and I’m not sure there’s going to be a resin solution to the problem.
I’m starting to think maybe using the resin for the casing after I get that dialed in and then looking toward a carbon fiber material like you use in your patch cable for the connectors themselves.
You may need to adjust the models for SLA as well. You may know this but with 3D printing you usually start off with a design that should work, and then tweak it to work better with your 3D printer. So most of my parts have been tweaked to work well with the Markforged Onyx. The models may need tweaking for printing in other materials. You can use Tinkercad to make simple changes. I actually build all my models in Tinkercad from basic shapes.
Posting here as well since not everyone is on Discord. I’ve been pushing hard the last few weeks. Boards are out for quote now for fab and assembly. I’ll be most likely switching the case colors to black. This will give it a black with white silkscreen look. Should look nice.
The main board is pretty dense for a VB cart. Definitely couldn’t have done this without a split PCB design integrated into the case. Exciting stuff.
TPO material cases, although there are still issues. These molded cases are still being worked in the background but its been painful. Getting a mold made was the easy part, to be honest.
