Alright, all of the mouser part's showed up, but I'm still waiting for the PCB and the aliexpress stuff...
@campbellashe has taken the first open spot for testing!
@campbellashe has taken the first open spot for testing!
LCD Replacement for the Macintosh Portable
- Thread starter Froggy814
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I've been saying this for a while; what we really need is for a wizard of 3D CAD to recreate the LCD bezel of the Luggable. That way it can be printed with no Trackball cutouts for use with the NumPad or with a single cutout for left or right handed use with trackball and a larger display centered on the KBD.
Definitely! But unfortunately, I don't have a couple $1000 to spend on a 3d scanner... That would be an amazing thing to add to the list of created parts for the Portable though!
I've always wondered how good those scanners actually are. Folks seem to use digital calipers, rulers and the like for such things. Thankfully, I have a sacrificial Luggable on hand. The retractable handle bits make that bezel seem crazy complicated to model. 
I'm right there with you, but concentrating on other wildly impractical avenues of approach to this mess for the time being. My CAD experience pretty much ended sometime in the mid-90's and never really progressed into the realm of 3D. I do 3D stuff betwixt the ears from 2D inputs. Works well for me, but doesn't translate into real world application.
So it goes . . .
So it goes . . .
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