3D printed pc cases

[Gav_881]

What do you think the chances are of having OCUk start a print your own case section, perhaps hosting members designs and giving a little store credit when someone chooses to have one?

Could lead to some interesting cases and possibly some optimised SFF cases building on the leasons learned from the commercially available.

First one i have seen done from scratch, not exactly mindblowing but a proof of concept if nothing else.

http://www.shapeways.com/blog/archives/857-3D-Printed-PC-Case.html

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[Gav_881]

Deppends you can get 90 degree risers for pcie

 

[Gav_881]

Looks great! but what is the cost of all this printing?

Apparently its cheap as chips, just hope that's the ones in tesco's freezer isle not the casino ones

Just use a premade mobo tray to remove the 'risk'
That the only part that needs to be point one of a millimeter correct.

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[Gav_881]

Ok so this may give an idea of cost. This is the cost from school.

Price of material: £3.52 per cubic centimeter
Price of printer: £15,000

We have one of these: http://www.uprint3dprinting.com/3d-printers/3d-printer-uprint.aspx

it sounds like your being done over mate, current costs are about £40-60/Kg or £0.30/m and the printers are in the region of £1-4k now.

Are you sure they didnt get one of those long term look how cheap it is this month but we will screw you to the wall for 20 years deals?

 

[Gav_881]

It's not just the cost of the filament int he printing though. As its ABS there is also the cost of the curing chemicals ect...

Ah didn't know that.