Yea it was a couple years ago when I was looking and none of them were in working order.

For archiving’s sake here’s a photo of the insides showcasing my cable management 😂

cool! I was just asking a few days ago how you guys were doing ascii art.

I’ve been using Hatchbox mostly. It’s been good up to now. Now suddenly I have to set the first and last layer flow ratio to .98 instead of 1 to get it to be solid filled smooth. Another concern is that warping issue. I had been storing my OSI Portable in the shop out back for about 8 months and the bezel where the lcd cutouts are was all watped and also some other areas. I had to reprint all that stuff. It couldn’t possible have gotten THAT hot in there. It’s like a mini house with insulation and everything. Maybe 100 max in the summer?!

Well dammit I just got a space heater for the shop out back. I need to get my moneys worth before it warms up!

I think Martin at Brewing Acadamy still has some. I almost bought one from him his prices aren’t bad. I got my NOS LCD panel from him also for about $60

Cool thanks for the input. I printed another with more gap between the Atari logo and the grid lines and I don’t think I like it as much so I’ll stick with this one!

Alright here’s how the new lid came out. What yallz think? I guess it’s better than just blank 🤔 ** dammit the spacing is off between the grill lines! One more round! 😂 🤦‍♂️ ** I don’t know if it’s cuz the weather and my filament is wet but I had to tweak the flow rate on the first and last layers to get it to fill in smoothly without gaps. Weird. It’s been flawless til now.

I paid about twice that a couple years ago. Is yours a STacy 2? That’s what mine is but it has the memory upgrade to make it a 4 I think.

Well it’s been a fiasco. Start print, wait 5 hours, flaws in print. Rinse and repeat. Yes I’ve been eyeing the ST Book for years. I think I’ve seen two come up in eBay in the last 5 years. The one I just got those snaps from off eBay looks like it’s in pristine condition. Yeah I can’t justify the thousands to have one when they do crop up. I think I payed close to $1,000 for my STacy and that’s my limit! Although I’m pretty sure I’ve spent more than that on this frikn XE Book! 😂

I havent been happy with the blank lid surface and just found a video of an STBook where he closes the lid so I got a good look at how they did the logo on it. So I am taking another shot at embedding a logo on it. I tried a Fuji in the center already kindof like the Apple logo on the Macbooks but that seem down the middle just made it look bad. Heres what I am going to try next... I'll see how it looks in 10 hours when the printing finishes... Heres what the sirface of the STBook looks like: And heres my version: WHat do you think? I hope it doesnt end up looking like KRAP

$300.00 to print the XEBOOK and $41.55 shipping.... I cant print stuff for you if needed. And shipping will be less.

Dang I just tried to get on here... This explains things...

Whered you get that STacy cover? I need that!

Another "glamor shot" now that a few more kinks have been ironed out.. FIxed some warping issues, Improved the hinge tension with a TPU washer, and reworked the lid so it can take larger more powerful magnets to suck the display down better when closed. I am going to try to quit while I am ahead so i dont "fix it til its broke" before VCF Socal! 🤣 ** final testing the battery, We're down to one green dot here in the photo and its been 5 hours! Once it shuts down I am going to time how long it takes to recharge while powered on. --- If enough people were to want a kit version of this that would include the LCD panel, plastics, wire harness, battery pack, audio and power management board, nuts n' bolts, and you BYO motherboard and upgrades I think around 300 backers would cover the cost if it were to sell for $300 or so... Thats just a rough estimate But you could assume the plastic molding and production would be in the high $30K plus everything else.

Oh wow awesome. Any ideas on how to get custom cables made?

Oh wow thought the injection mold tooling alone would be more than 30k. Need: Injection molding of base, lid, lcd bezel, lcd lid. Wire harness manufacturing. Power management and audio board manufacturing. LCD bulk buy Packaging and instructions

Thanks it was a long haul. A few issues having to split it down the middle causing it to warp a bit. The hinge could be better it needs to be tighter will have to see how well it holds up. It needs to be injection molded plastics but that’s crazy expensive. Maybe if there’s enough interest it could be polished into a real product

It's Done! Youtube Vid: : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYGtY7DnrUk

I am going to use mine in the Ohio Scientific Superboard II laptop conversion instead of the old lcd panel now thats using composite video.. I confirmed it works too on that monochrom system. Its a good solution but not for Atari 8-Bit because the Sophia II is way better and less hardware... just a new GTIA chip and you good to go. MY STacy has a NOS LCD in it... its old passive matrix and dimmer than new skool but all original so Im keeping it til i have to crack that machine back open to replace the hard drive or something else fails on it because they are a pain in the asssss to take apart as you know...