Alternate Neo1973 case designs

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This page is a repository for alternate case deisgns for the Neo1973, intended to be designed, built and fitted by the community/the phone's owner.

Each alternate case design suggestion needs some or all of: a description, intended uses, a 3D model in an open format (e.g. .stl), rendered images of the intended design, materials and any information regarding buttons etc. which connect electronically to components within the phone.

There are numerous rapid prototyping companies that will very cheaply make small run components from various polymers, including:

Rapid Object

Ponoko

Some of these are a copy of ideas found in Wish List - Hardware#Casing.

  • Digital Gaming: a case with a digital D-pad, four face-mounted buttons and four shoulder-mounted buttons.
  • Analogue gaming: a case with an analogue thumbstick, four face-mounted buttons and four shoulder-mounted buttons.
  • Side-mounted touch strip sensor: a touch strip attached to the side, as discussed here
  • Trackstick: a miniature pointing device, as used on certain IBM laptops
  • Ruggedized: a hermetically sealed case, watertight, and able to withstand a pre-defined drop on to a hard surface.
  • Space efficient lanyard: the lanyard loop at the bottom of the standard case is very large - it could be replaced by a smaller one, reducing the overall phone size.
  • Alternate colours/materials: use the existing case shape, but change the colour and material for a unique design.
  • Different speaker orientation: similar externally to the standard case, but with the speakers mounted one at each end of the phone (on the top), as discussed on the community mailing list. The intention is to give a better stereo spread when listening to stereo-encoded music.
  • Alternate screen: the current screen is a 2.8", 640 x 480 colour screen, which some would consider unnecessary and overly power-hungry. This case would allow a smaller, monochrome screen to be fitted, saving battery time.

None of this can be acocmplished without dimesnions of existing phones - if FIC are unable/unwilling to release precise dimensions, a user of a Neo1973 will need to measure their phoen and upload the information to Neo1973 schematics.

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This page is a repository for alternate case deisgns for the Neo1973, intended to be designed, built and fitted by the community/the phone's owner.

Each alternate case design suggestion needs some or all of: a description, intended uses, a 3D model in an open format (e.g. .stl), rendered images of the intended design, materials and any information regarding buttons etc. which connect electronically to components within the phone.

There are numerous rapid prototyping companies that will very cheaply make small run components from various polymers, including:

Rapid Object

Ponoko

Some of these are a copy of ideas found in Wish List - Hardware#Casing.

  • Digital Gaming: a case with a digital D-pad, four face-mounted buttons and four shoulder-mounted buttons.
  • Analogue gaming: a case with an analogue thumbstick, four face-mounted buttons and four shoulder-mounted buttons.
  • Side-mounted touch strip sensor: a touch strip attached to the side, as discussed here
  • Trackstick: a miniature pointing device, as used on certain IBM laptops
  • Ruggedized: a hermetically sealed case, watertight, and able to withstand a pre-defined drop on to a hard surface.
  • Space efficient lanyard: the lanyard loop at the bottom of the standard case is very large - it could be replaced by a smaller one, reducing the overall phone size.
  • Alternate colours/materials: use the existing case shape, but change the colour and material for a unique design.
  • Different speaker orientation: similar externally to the standard case, but with the speakers mounted one at each end of the phone (on the top), as discussed on the community mailing list. The intention is to give a better stereo spread when listening to stereo-encoded music.
  • Alternate screen: the current screen is a 2.8", 640 x 480 colour screen, which some would consider unnecessary and overly power-hungry. This case would allow a smaller, monochrome screen to be fitted, saving battery time.

None of this can be acocmplished without dimesnions of existing phones - if FIC are unable/unwilling to release precise dimensions, a user of a Neo1973 will need to measure their phoen and upload the information to Neo1973 schematics.