2 Mar
2016
2 Mar
'16
11:31 a.m.
On 3/2/2016 11:16 AM, Anders Nelson wrote:
I found switch levers and a mounting frame design (
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:360853) that I would like to have casted
with molded-in color, close to the originals as reasonable.
Has anyone already done this that I can simply buy from? If any injection
molds have been built I'd love to put those to work. Would it be better to
just paint a 3D print of these?
Also has anyone created the front panel PCB design? I use EAGLE and would
love to at least have a CAD outline from which to start as I build my
emulated PDP-8/e. Pretty much like the SBC6120 but emulated on a 32-bit
micro as opposed to the HD6120.
I await your thoughts!
Have you seen this: http://obsolescence.wix.com/obsolescence#!pidp-8/cbie
It might just satisfy your 'need' (and there are a lot more blinkin' lights on
the 8i then on the 8e).
If this is not quite right, the basic design may make a good jumping off point
to get to an 8e variation.
Oscar's design is a scaled (~2/3) configuration, so it is not an 'exact'
replica
per se. There is another
project in the works to create exact PDP-8e/f/m etc replica front panels (Rob
Smallwood IIRC) but
I believe that is the acrylic panel only, nothing else. You need to supply all
the other 8e parts yourself.
Don