The 10 year old and I have strange conversations as I’m turning out his light and closing his door at bed time. Half stall-tactics, half clearing his brain from the day, these sometimes short (sometimes not) conversations range far and wide, from dissecting the day, to gaming, to story telling and general goofiness.
One Friday night the conversation settled on his teddy bear, and how said bear really wanted a laptop of his own so he could play Minecraft. By the end of the weekend the BearBook Air was ready:
This model went through a few iterations over Saturday and Sunday. In the first version The model didn’t fit together, despite trying to scale the shells up by 5% to see if they could fit the other components:
Not a terrible start, but a bunch of things needed changing and fixing:
- The shell thickness was too thin to usefully print, and needed to be increased to 1cm thick
- The first version of the hinge was too complicated, needing drastic simplification to print
- The pivot attachment points on both shells needed to be rethought
- The keyboard, when printed, was only about 4 layers thick, and needed to be extruded further
Those changes took an hour or two, and version two was much cleaner. Some of the pieces still need a bit of post-print work to fit; the hinge needs to be sanded to fit, as does the keyboard. Overall, a good weekend project.
- Maker: patricknevindwyer
- Source: BearBook Air
- Original License: Creative Commons – Attribution – Share Alike
- Model: All Files
- GCode: –
- Materials:
- Screen Shell: Inland Silver PLA 1.75mm
- Screen: Gizmodorks Translucent Blue PLA 1.75mm
- Bottom Shell: Inland Silver PLA 1.75mm
- Keyboard: Prusa Black PETG 1.75mm
- Pivot: Prusa Black PETG 1.75mm
- Print Date: 2017/11/18
- Print Time:
- Screen Shell: 1 hour 15 minutes
- Screen Shell v2: 1 hour 23 minutes
- Screen: 38 minutes
- Screen v2: 40 minutes
- Bottom Shell: 1 hour 18 minutes
- Bottom Shell v2: 1 hour 19 minutes
- Keyboard: 14 minutes
- Keyboard v2: 29 minutes
- Pivot: 13 minutes
- Pivot v2: 8 minutes
- Estimated Print Time:
- Screen Shell: 54 minutes
- Screen Shell v2: 1 hour 26 minutes
- Screen: 33 minutes
- Screen v2: 32 minutes
- Bottom Shell: 1 hour 6 minutes
- Bottom Shell v2: 1 hour 21 minutes
- Keyboard: 13 minutes
- Keyboard v2: 23 minutes
- Pivot: 8 minutes
- Pivot v2: 4 minutes
- Estimated Filament:
- Screen Shell: 3.3 meters
- Screen Shell v2: 5.6 meters
- Screen: 1.9 meters
- Screen v2: 1.9 meters
- Bottom Shell: 4.2 meters
- Bottom Shell v2: 5.3 meters
- Keyboard: 63.1 cm
- Keyboard v2: 1.1 meters
- Pivot: 37.6 cm
- Pivot v2: 25.2 cm
- Slicer: Prusa Control
- Slicer Settings
- 0.20mm layers
- no brim
- 20% infill (70%/solid for keyboard)
- no supports
- Printer: Prusa i3 mk2