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I made a miniature IBM PC

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Reply 40 of 54, by HandOfFate

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ajacocks wrote on 2020-10-03, 14:44:

A pair of Micro SD card readers might be the right scale.

- Alex

Huh, neat idea. If I will get this 3D printed I might paint or draw over some SD cards in a floppy disk look 😁

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Reply 41 of 54, by Bruninho

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HandOfFate wrote on 2020-10-03, 16:24:
ajacocks wrote on 2020-10-03, 14:44:

A pair of Micro SD card readers might be the right scale.

- Alex

Huh, neat idea. If I will get this 3D printed I might paint or draw over some SD cards in a floppy disk look 😁

Just slap a sticker on them. Like we used to when we had diskettes.

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Reply 42 of 54, by VileR

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As someone else who's hugely hung up on attention to detail - two thumbs up from me. 😁

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Reply 43 of 54, by Horun

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fleedar wrote on 2020-10-01, 17:36:

I posted this on r/RetroBattleStations but I figured y’all would appreciate it as well.

Beautiful micro replica ! I think you did an awesum job.

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Reply 44 of 54, by Televicious

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Would do the screen curvature with glass or clear plastic. One side curved, rhe other flat.

Reply 45 of 54, by MCGA

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Holy CRAP! This is the reason to buy a 3D printer! Excellent work!

Reply 46 of 54, by kleung21

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Super cool

Reply 48 of 54, by canthearu

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Damnit, this is amazing.

And I've been eyeing off an Ender 3 for a couple of weeks now. Trying NOT to buy it!

Reply 49 of 54, by Benedikt

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Televicious wrote on 2021-08-30, 23:24:

Would do the screen curvature with glass or clear plastic. One side curved, rhe other flat.

Maybe with a cheap rectangular magnifying glass?

Reply 50 of 54, by Zerthimon

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This!

Reply 51 of 54, by Jo22

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Benedikt wrote on 2021-08-31, 13:26:
Televicious wrote on 2021-08-30, 23:24:

Would do the screen curvature with glass or clear plastic. One side curved, rhe other flat.

Maybe with a cheap rectangular magnifying glass?

Interesting idea. This reminds me of the fake Amigas made for a museum.
I hope it's okay if I add a link to an old hackaday.com article here.:

https://hackaday.com/2021/02/17/building-repl … igital-artwork/

I hope you people don't mind. I don't mean to start an Amiga-PC discussion here, whatsoever.
Because, this thread/topic is too precious for such things.
So if you want, I'll remove this post no problem.

It's just that the screen "issue" is similar.
The Amiga replicas used LCDs, too and the solution to the monitor was a special, curved lense.

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Reply 52 of 54, by Aaron707

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Amazing project! Any update on the STL files for this? Thanks

Reply 53 of 54, by ajacocks

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I haven’t seen any updates from the OP.

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Reply 54 of 54, by Aaron707

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Well this thread inspired me to go out and get a 3D printer during Black Friday sales. Now to learn TinkerCAD so I can make some cool stuff! So thank you for the story of your build and impressive project.