<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">Below...<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 1:54 PM, OpenSlate ChalkDust <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:openslateproj@gmail.com" target="_blank">openslateproj@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Now autocad yourself a nice enclosure, and have Shapeways 3D print it. Put the bits together, USB wifi module optional!</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Interesting how 3D printing has changed the custom fabrication scene. Ten years ago I saw self made student slates as a new kind of industrial arts class. Where I took wood shop and metal shop, these kids would create slate enclosures. I guess 3D printing would move the same concept forward one generation and be a whole lot safer.</div>
</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>That's still a great idea. Wood shop and metal shop are still great, and most prototypes are made from things lying around (unless you have your own 3D printer, turnaround time on getting a mold shipped back isn't stellar.) You could actually combine the approaches if you had access to a 3D scanner.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>I like the way you think! Anyway I want Squeak, Cuis, Scratch, Etoys, and probably MuO running on a tablet at some point, and implementing gestures and such has been on my mind for awhile. I don't currently have a tablet, otherwise I'd probably be hacking on this stuff. (Unless you count the iPhone, and I don't, because anything starting with 'i' and not ending in 'Mac' is not a usefully programmable computer.)</div>
</div><div><br></div>-- <br>Casey Ransberger
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