Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing

On 1/22/25 1:50 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 10:28:11 +0100, D wrote:
 

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On Tue, 21 Jan 2025, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
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Go to your friendly neighbourhood 3d printer! =) Wouldn't that work?

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  Umm ... that'd be a lot more expensive than just cutting/gluing some
  raw plastic sheets

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Interesting! Had no idea 3d printing was that expensive in comparison.

 The library's makerspace has several 3D printers. You can schedule a job
and the only cost is for the materials.
 However, that assumes you've installed a program like FreeCAD and figured
out how to use it to generate the stl files and have a good feeling of
what you can and can't do with 3D printing.
 Or, if you're me, you shuffle out to the shed and paw through the
materials, adhesives, fasteners, and tools to see what you can whack
together.

   A few old sheets of plastic and/or thin metal, some epoxy,
   maybe a few pop rivets   :-)
   I know one guy who builds Pi boxes mostly out of WOOD.
   He has the right tools, and endless stocks of wood.