Many details and in-depth photos and drawings at the article site.
Posted on 01/18/2016 6:30:20 PM PST by Utilizer
The Novena Heirloom is a limited edition custom enclosure system I built for use with the open-source Novena computer designed by Bunnie Huang and Sean Cross. It was crowd funded in cooperation with Portland, Oregon-based Crowd Supply.
Several prototype concepts were developed for the campaign. After consulting with Huang, we decided to forgo an easel design in favor of a more traditional clam shell laptop. The requirement for user access to the internal components argued for a removable keypad and drove the final result. The thrust of the design concept is informed by, and hopefully serves as homage to, the vintage HiFi designs epitomized by Dieter Rams. The final Heirloom design remains substantially true to the original concept prototype.
Composite construction
The Heirloom design was developed with a composite of wood veneer, e-glass cloth, cork, and epoxy for the main panels of the enclosure. Influenced by the use of cross-banded wood laminates for my camera designs, I embarked on a series of trials with combinations of materials that led to the fabrication process used for the Heirloom computer. This material proved to have a desirable balance of durability, strength, weight, appearance and environmental impact. An additional benefit deriving from the use of cork, as opposed to wood or other hard material, for the core material, is a significantly improved impact resistance.
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Many details and in-depth photos and drawings at the article site.
Heirloom??? That’s a good one. Like anything related to computing isn’t going to be rapidly obsolete.
Where’s the Neuro Interface jack and the Quantum Uplink array supposed to go?
Bkmk
I likes me some Steampunk Laptop
>>> Heirloom??? That’s a good one. Like anything related to computing isn’t going to be rapidly obsolete.
I was talking to my archivist friend and asked him the most reliable storage media for archival purposes. His unexpected reply:
I hate to admit it, XEHRpa, but its “paper.”
He’s right. All those time capsules that schools and institutions like to bury to be reopened in the future have or will fail. Paper transcends the ages, just look at why we have the Bible or great works of art.
Stone transcends paper. As well as blunting scissors.
From the title I expected vacuum tubes- at least discrete components.
I thought the plastic string one a couple stories down was pretty cool.
Our bulb was from a great Aunt, who had it on the front porch and it too was never turned off. When she died c.1990, my father in law took it down, boxed it up and it has never been lit again. Dare not as I think the modern outlets would blow it. She also lived in TX.
That’s cool but they should have provided a “port” on the side for a gramophone-style speaker horn ;’}
Mods? The destination link currently being displayed is not for the article I referred to. Any chance of changing it to the correct one?
Here:
http://makezine.com/2016/01/15/electronics-that-last-how-i-built-an-heirloom-laptop/
Thanks for that tidbit of info....makes all the storing of old family papers (after scanning) worthwhile. Plus...I prefer paper!!
Steampunk eh? So where’s the airship?
Thanks Utilizer.
What does the key do ?
“...both visually appealing and durable in use.”
And if it overheats, it can *really* catch fire. :)
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