Wii Laptop How-To (Part 3)

Posted Feb 6th 2007 2:07AM by Will O'Brien
Filed under: handhelds hacks, home entertainment hacks, wii hacks

The final part of Ben Heckendorn's Wii Laptop How-To is up. Somehow, Ben managed to get access to a laser cutter and a CNC machine (in friggin Iowa) and used em to create the new case for the Wii Laptop. Add dash of soldering, a few simple circuits and some clever case construction. Voila.

Reader Comments

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1. Werd. I'm a gonna have me a laser cutter one a these days...Nice job!

Posted at 2:24PM on Feb 6th 2007 by punish3r

2. Ha. That's pretty tongue in cheek for someone that lives in friggin mizzou, Will.

Posted at 3:31PM on Feb 6th 2007 by Eliot

3. Still not as good as vacuum tables, or resin molding.

Boxed form cases are getting bland, but making professional quality casted cases like you see on off the shelf laptops is either expensive, or messy, and expensive.

Those translucent plastic clipboards are perfect for ITX laptops, and you can temper form the plastic with low heat.

Posted at 7:51PM on Feb 6th 2007 by TJhooker

4. seams to be very well built, though, in the end, all it amounts to is a negligably thinner wii with a hopelessly small screen afixed to the side

Posted at 10:04PM on Feb 6th 2007 by wolf

5. Come on, wolf, Your making the other wolfs look bad :P i hope the controler doesnt break the screen on this. that would be funny! well, now im just being stupid.

Posted at 11:52PM on Feb 6th 2007 by Metal Wolf

6. It's a fantastic job! ... only thing is, and I saw mention of this on the Engadged site also, that the lid (screen) is smaller then the base of the WII laptop.. IMHO it would have looked a lot better if it were just as wide and maybe a bit bigger display would have fit in there. But none the less, fokking amazing job!

Posted at 4:35AM on Feb 7th 2007 by LoopyMind

7. ben's work is always immaculate. another great work.

[ps - will, are you a fellow mizzou'er?]

Posted at 1:44PM on Feb 7th 2007 by adam

8. dont diss iowa, we make your corn. without us there would be no cornbread!!!!

Posted at 4:53PM on Feb 7th 2007 by matt

9. laser cutter; now there's a new idea for my homemade cnc router.

Posted at 5:20PM on Feb 7th 2007 by crgwbr

10. In Iowa...
>.<
Dangin guys we aren't that backwards here.
Lookit what the STATE University has
http://www.iastate.edu/~nscentral/news/06/may/c6update.shtml

Posted at 10:02AM on Feb 20th 2007 by IA_Echo_Hotel

11. This laptop is AWESOME. I wish I had the money to make one.

Posted at 3:44AM on May 23rd 2007 by Joe

12. i used to work for an engraving shop and it didn't take me long to figure out that a laser engraver is just a laser cutter set to "raster." as soon as i switched its settings over to "vector" i was making stencils & cutting all kinds of shapes out of sheet plastic.

Posted at 2:40PM on Aug 9th 2007 by arajay

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