blueridgedog

Assembly of a test shapeways print:

Augment the custom screen feature by allowing the use of text strings that reference variables rather than/in addition to a flat raster image.

Eventually the case you see will be available, the designs have been made public and I know of a few people that are getting geared up to mill some for market, some of which may come as fully assembled mods. You can get the enclosure on shapeways now: https://www.shapeways.com/product/6524725AS/evolv-dna200-case-with-buttons?li=search-results-1&optionId=57294605 However, you would need a builder, a chip, a battery and a 510 connector...all easy to find. Where are you located?

This is a test enclosure I posted. I have since lowered the window to make management of the ribbon easier, but you still have to sand the buttons due to variations in printing...they need to fit tight so there is no deflection. Can you tell me how the snap enclosure on the back worked?

The solder looks cold...if the + side was the same, it could have heated up.

Looking at the reference mod, if the battery leads were soldered directly to the DNA200 board, was any protection used to prevent shorting during assembly given the metal case? Is is safe to remove without risk of shorting?

I have developed and coded for Linux/Mac/Windows (and others that folks would not recognize). Glad to help as a tester, but no longer coding. I would suggest that the platform OS agnostic and migrate to a java app or a web interface, but for now just having access to it is amazing.

This is a real sleeper that I don't think manufactures of mods or related items are getting just yet. This will take the guess work out of selecting and using wire and should be a game changing concept. It will have to get out of the geek world to be effective, with point and click web integration (buy this wire, click here to automatically add a profile for it...etc).

The beta reference mod has the battery resting on the chip. I assume (risky) that the heat produced is acceptable for such an arrangement. I will be using a small amount of insulating foam just for safety, but I can't imagine a heat sink will be required as the chip would shut down prior.

The better capacity, form factor, pricing, performance and availability of Lipo make the obvious choice, IMHO. The RC industry has already driven the high drain curve in that market and we have many off the shelf, drop-in options to choose from.

Has anyone converted these to stl or another format that Sketchup can open? If so I would love a copy as most of the tools that can handle the formats thus far listed are proprietary.