MiniNuke Mark III

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GHI hardware + Skewworks software + 3D printer = Sweeet. :smiley:

Meet my new testing & diagnostics tool the MiniNuke Mark III. It started off in a $1 flimsy plastic case I bought and cut holes in (I believe the case was originally intended to store thread or some such). Then it got an acrylic case from GHI (which, yeah, I could have designed better). And now it has it’s final home in a 3D printed case.

Hydra powered with T35, Ethernet, joystick, 2 buttons, SD card and USB Serial. It’s also got a LiPo battery with charger (barrel jack & usb). I’ll be using this to test out my GUI software as well as trouble shoot various things.

And if you’re interested here’s what I learned from 3D printing the case.

  1. I don’t care if your measurements are perfect, the print won’t be so you’d better lay in some wiggle room.

  2. 2mm is an ideal case thickness

  3. Faceplates aren’t a great idea if you don’t bare in mind lesson 1

  4. A gap of 1mm in your design will leave you a gap of nothing on a real print, make your buffer sizes bigger than that!

  5. A bump of 1mm will be greater than 1mm.

  6. Hairspray + blue painters tape is an excellent way to prevent warping.

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Cool. Glad you got it worked out. Do you feel like the tolerance problems are specific to that printer? Is there a draft print vs. high quality print option?

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I believe it’s a bit of both. I did run this at a custom speed…after 6 days of working on the darn thing I may have gotten slightly impatient.

I’m still very happy with it.

I’m going to take a nice break from the headaches of 3D printing, but when I come back I think I’ll be making a little GPS cube w/ the Cerb40 and OLED screen. I’ll print that one at top resolution. :slight_smile:

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Very nice… I’m so jealous about the 3D Printer.

Now put a circular scroll wheel on it and call it the iNuke Classic. Then lawyer up and go into hiding.

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You need to add a little keyboard to the front of it and it would look like the old Apple II’s we had in school :smiley:

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Heh maybe I should grab one of those from Sparkfun. :slight_smile:

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@ Ian - NETMF PC Mark III is on the way too :smiley:

The screen slides into a base with a recline of 45deg…though the Mac is tempting :wink: