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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Anyone have shortcuts for modeling complex over center, compliance mechanisms, and bistable auxetic materials? I’m using FreeCAD and trying to just use rough sketches and trial and error to create a bending tube structure that 3d prints vertically but then bends into place like a pop-tube kid’s toy, but only on one side of an otherwise vase mode print design. I’m really pushing the limits of what FreeCAD can loft before edges go wonky and the Part Design workflow is no longer sufficient. I can make a compliant spring easily, but a bistable bend in a tube is at the edge of my learning curve.



  • VAIO was formerly a brand of Sony, introduced in 1996, until it offloaded it into an independent company in 2014; Japan Industrial Partners owns VAIO Corporation, with Sony maintaining a minority stake. Sony still holds the intellectual property rights for the VAIO brand and logo.[3] In November 2024, it was announced that Japanese retailer Nojima will take control of Vaio, expected to finalize in January 2025.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaio

    Based on that page it looks like they only still exist as a potential sticker brand. That looks like they couldn’t compete with the highly integrated iCore era when laptops got very simplified compared to the duo core stuff with lots of peripheral daughter boards and I/O support.