The Framework modular laptop computer guarantees the power so as to add and take away options on a whim utilizing Enlargement Playing cards — and semi-pseudonymous maker Sean N. has constructed one in all his personal, so as to add Apple MacBook-style magnetic charging capabilities.
“[The Framework laptop has] configurable Enlargement Playing cards right here within the backside the place you may have, like, an SSD, or 4 USB Kind-As, or 4 USB Kind-Cs, or DisplayPort, or no matter you need, they usually’re popping out with new Enlargement Playing cards sooner or later,” Sean explains. “I simply needed one thing in case this wire will get yanked [so] it isn’t going to drag the laptop computer off.”
The unique Framework was launched two years in the past as a laptop computer with a distinction, designed to be straightforward to take care of, improve, and broaden. The discharge of the laptop computer itself was adopted by the Framework Mainboard, which — because the identify implies — took the innards of the laptop computer and made it accessible as a single-board pc that has powered home-brew creations together with Penk Chen’s Mainboard Terminal and Richard Sutherland’s Framedeck.
Sean’s challenge, although, revolves across the laptop computer itself. A 3D-printable Enlargement Card mannequin serves as the premise, with Krylon metallic silver paint as a end to match the steel laptop computer physique, and hosts an off-the-shelf magnetic charger adapter impressed by Apple’s in style MagSafe design. With the opposite half of the magnetic charger related to a USB Kind-C charger, the laptop computer could be powered by merely snapping the 2 halves collectively — with the cable simply disconnecting ought to it get snagged in-use.
“A little bit word on the [3D-printed] half,” Sean provides for anybody focused on repeating the construct. “Since it’s so skinny I might suggest, after you be ok with the half that you just printed and [have] examined it, put a bit of superglue right here and right here so the entire thing stays collectively as one unit. It’s going to additionally make it rather more inflexible.”
Sean’s video of the challenge is accessible on his YouTube channel, together with hyperlinks to the elements used and the STL Enlargement Card file for 3D-printing.
