Writing and a Chromebook

It was the first day of class. I broght a pad of paper, pen, pencil and my laptop. 2-1/2 hours into a 3 hour class, and my battery conks. This is a CAD capable machine with a monsterous GPU, and appearently it was hungry for juice.

I knew that the machine was overkill, but I really thought I would have 3 hours of charge in the battery.

So I am changing direction.

I have a lousy windows minimal machine, loaded it it with what I needed bare minimum, deleted the bloatware, and it was still non stellar.

So I dumped $140 into a chromebook (minus store credit and I was out of pocket for about $30)

I have a few little utilities on it, a browser, and that is it, and I love it.

And it gets at least 5 hours on a charge.

Suck it windows

Tactical Error #1

Wee!

My first blunder.

0.040″ is too thin of a wall. In my world, I do a lot of 0.040″ thick walls–in aluminum–in parts that are 1/4 an inch big. I found some old shapeways parts and the thin walls are “squishy”

If I thicken the walls, I won’t be able to afford it, or won’t be able to over a short period of time.

If I build as is, it won’t work.

Thinking making a honeycomb like wall. A lot of work.

Thinking of making some sample wall sections using different design techniques and see which is stiffest.

What I do have going for me is that the majority of the internals are 0.080″, which I believe to be thick enough. With enough ribbing, the outer sections should be fine as well.