Librem 5 as of writing this is $1200 and even though its a well built quality device, it has a heavy thick feel. Purism doesn’t offer official cases to protect this phone which is priced as a premium device? I cannot think of a modern cell phone as thick as the Librem 5, so already existing cases pr…

[image] JR-Fi: I was already planning on doing some minor surgery to get it in If the minor surgery includes sectioning it in half we’ll have the opportunity to check the matching of the profiles

Sure, tomorrow in the morning I’ll post a new version Edit: CEST

If it’s smaller on all three axis I’d have to cut it to 6-8 pieces and then it wouldn’t be very representative. I was thinking I may have cut it in half just to get it in, not because it wouldn’t fit. Adding a tiny bit all around, so it fit’s like a glove (+0.2-0.4mm all around it, or something like…

only widthwise, because it was so the starting file. I imagined that the stretch would allow for a better fit

It probably would. The prototype is good up to a point, to check other measurements - and maybe useful for other forks to develop the case.

Case with X,Y dimensions = phone + 0.2 mm Front edge slightly reduced [image] Send Encrypt and send files with a link that automatically expires to ensure your important documents don’t stay online forever.

Ok, I’ve got a draft made. Needs a bit of polishing and if @fiacco (or anyone else) can and wants to make the fine tuning in time, I reserved time for tomorrow to do a better quality print (need the stl-file before 11.00 CEST or I have to print something else [or try next week sometime]). But let’s …

For the killswitches, would it be acceptable to widen the portions of that hole only around the killswitches? Such that the long hole has “bumps” above and below the switches so you can fit your finger in there more easily. Does that make sense? Or are the switches to close together for that?

I don’t think that would make difference. Yes, they are close together and meaningful bumps would weaken the case at that point, as I tried to point out. It’s about how thick your fingertips are and how often you use them [switches] - some will be fine with how the hole is now.

Woah, I-LO-VE-IT, this is exactly what I wanted to achieve in terms of design. The imperfections are minimal compared to my TPU shell and your shell doesn’t feel like a very thick block at all, unlike mine. I’m following the evolutions very closely but it makes me really want to reprint a TPU shel…

Case for Librem 5?

Hardware Librem 5

fiacco April 29, 2022, 6:10am 80

Case with X,Y dimensions = phone + 0.2 mm
Front edge slightly reduced