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A couple of WIP renders

A project log for Loki

Loki is something like a cyberdeck, dual booting between Raspberry Pi (obvs) and an honest-to-goodness ZX Spectrum FPGA analogue!

steve-andersonSteve Anderson 08/11/2022 at 13:500 Comments

TBH there's only really one, but I hid some elements in Fusion 360 to make it possible to see inside.

The mish-mash of colours reflects the actual state of the build. There's black, neon orange, silver and two brands of white PLA, together with black PETG for the keyboard plate. Everything is being printed on my (somewhat modified) Ender 3 Pro.

With the keyboard plate hidden you get a look at the battery (shown in orange), the ZX Uno location next to it and the opposite end which plays host to the RTC module now. All the base parts clamp around the plywood (shown here in plywood colour) and dinky self-tapping screws are inserted from below, breaching the cylindrical features. That works pretty well, considering I was, then and now, making it up on the hoof. Two of the three 6mm threaded rods are visible as well; these brace things well and I'm glad I thought of that! The indentations that the rods protrude from are perfectly sized for a 6mm socket - a very early prototype of the keyboard had the locknuts sticking out which looked funky but wasn't actually very practical.

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