Gridfinideck - A Gridfinity Cyberdeck Mobile Platform
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This is an active work-in-progress. I can't guarantee current functionality as I am actively printing out the components now. I'd like to start my giving primary inspiration credit to vinikirst who made [this design](https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6475275) that was featured in a [Zack Freedman video](https://youtu.be/MrkGsgbomjY?t=423), but otherwise this has been recreated from the ground up and does not reuse any of their models directly. Behold the Gridfinideck: A folding mobile Gridfinity-based platform for whatever you might need such a thing for. This assembly utilizes Gridfinity Baseplates, modified with rod guides, to allow for a free-form customizable DIY Cyberdeck type thing. The framework of this design is based around 3/8" wooden dowels, but I apologize in advance because this design is a complete mashup of imperial and metric units. I will break down the parts list below, but the basic design is this: The brackets on either end have 9.5mm holes that tightly grip the dowels with a friction fit, no glue required. Be warned: this fit is seriously tight so make sure you have all of your pieces on the rods before you put the final brackets on. The Gridfinity Plates slide on these dowels and have 10.5mm guides that allow them to be re positioned easily. For a more snug fit that is still re-position-able you can use a 10mm hole, such as on my Steam Deck mount (coming soon). The structure of this design is a combination of friction-fit wooden dowels and the three piece bracket assembly that make up the hinge on each side. These hinges allow the assembly to go from a folded and locked orientation, to a Cyberdeck-esque low slung open format. What kind of things can you put on a Gridfinity plate that won't spill all over the place then folded up? Idk, that's for you to figure out! Everything has been designed with easy printing and minimal support material in mind. As far are the length for your wooden dowels, this assembly is 420mm long (nice), or about 16.5", but really you should just cut them to the length that works for your layout. It can be as wide or as narrow as you'd like it to be. It can have plenty of spare room for repositioning components or zero tolerance for a no-slip setup. It's up to you. Here is the parts list for the pictured assembly: - 4 x Dowel Brackets - 1 x Linkage - Left - 1 x Linkage - Right - 4 x Locking Rings for the hinges (You can print more if you want to lock your sliding plates in position) - 4 x 3x4 Baseplates (there is no need to print these with support material, even if your slicer tells you otherwise) - 8 x 3x4 Baseplate Legs (I designed these legs to be printed separately from the baseplate to avoid needing a bunch of support material. Use superglue to attach them via their indexing notches) - 2 x 2x4 Baseplates - 4 x 2x4 Baseplate Legs - 2 x Locking Latches, if you feel like it. Assembly Instructions: Look at the pictures and assemble it the same bro. Some general notes and musings: - This design might end up needing a kickstand, or perhaps just a rework to hold the upper portion at a higher angle. - The dowel holes on the side brackets are currently so tight that you basically need a punch to knock them back out. This means they don't need any glue, but it also sorta commits you to what is on the rods once you hammer them in. Field testing might convince me to make a looser hole that can be manually removed by hand. - I would like to potentially redesign the baseplates (and I guess any other thing I design for the rails) to have open ended guide rail loops so that I could "snap" them on and off the rails without having to disassemble the sides and slide them all the way off. The problem is that I don't know how I would design something like that that wouldn't also require a big fat raft of support material. That's why I made the current two part captured design. - I plan to make standalone pages for each baseplate once I am done prototyping, as well as making more sizes.
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