Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing

On Wed, 23 Jan 2025, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

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.

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I see a lot of Raspbery Pi NAS cases on Thingiverse already for
various numbers and sizes of drives.

What I would ideally like, would be to get all cables fixed and drawn, so that I could just slide in a Pi and get it all connected and started, without any manual fiddling around.
I guess for that to work in a smooth way, perhaps I'd have to bypass the ports and do some light soldering to make sure all connectors are facing the back.

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.

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That might be quicker than waiting many hours for a big long
3D print job (possibly more than once if you have print failures).
On the other hand it's easier to get mounting holes in exactly the
right position with 3D printing (to bolt on drives and the RPi
board), compared to marking them and drilling them. There are
probably lots of inelegant alternative ways to secure them though.
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