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How much does a 13" mainboard weigh by itself? (alien.top)
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I had a couple ideas for building custom portable enclosures, but I'm afraid they might end up too dense to be comfortable carrying around. For example, I've seen that "tablet" project that u/whatthefilament posted last year (and it was a beautiful piece of engineering!) but it looks quite bulky and heavy. I'm curious if the mainboard is the cause of that, or if a cleverer (and/or more expensive lol) design could keep things slimmer and lighter.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not much, but screen + touch input + board + battery + custom enclosure is really hard to do thin and light DIY.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Certainly a challenge, and tbh it might just be pie-in-the-sky thinking on my end. But I'm trying to figure out where it lies between "difficult" and "impossible"