Barbie's Toughbook in the making

I've been building a laptop for my daughter, she's eight, and I'm almost done.

I havent put on the stick-on jewels yet, but while Barbie would be proud, not sure the toughbook purists here will like it.

Started with a cf-18, had the top cover cerracoated pink by a gunsmith friend, another friend braided the pink paracord for the handle, and still trying to run down some new decals and as mentioned, be-jewel it.

Pics are poor quality but sill in the build stage.



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I CANNOT LET MY WIFE SEE THIS!

(Your daughter will LOVE it!)

Great job!

 

Its adorable. It looks great, mate. She'll most definitely love it.

My girlfriend has been pestering me about airbrushing her tattoo onto the lid of her Dull. God help me if she fids this post. I'll be forced to build yet another bloody toughbook.

God, you lot werent kidding when you said this was a bloody disease.

 

Looks great
Gee whiz kids are so lucky these days
I got an ex-a-sketch when I was 8

 

You're lucky... I remember playing with the neighbor's etch-a-sketch...

 

That was a very special gift Rick
I receved it when I was in the hospital to have my tonsils out

 

Did they grow back yet?

<Still laughing like crazy>

 

Yer BOTH lucky... I got a PICTURE of an Etch-A-Sketch from the Toys-R-Us sale flyer. I drew on it with my half a pencil until my wore-out eraser scratched through...



mnem
For my birthday breakfast I was SOOOO LUCKY! I got a double serving of toaster leavins and half a glass of REAL milk!

 

I got dirt and my finger to write with.

 

That is so cute! Your daughter is going to love it.


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Good one Sam.
I was promised ICE CREAM after tonsils. Who could eat it. Owwwwww!

The bloke with the braid may have created himself a part time job.

Jeff

 

Looks like a good job, Now I can't let my daughter see this or I will be doing something similar to her "new" CF-50 Mk3 she just got.

 

WOW! Looks great man! My wife would KILL to have an ORANGE Toughbook. She's OBSESSED with orange! SIMPLY OBSESSED! If she see's this, she will NOT let it go until I make it orange!

Good thing she's not an ubernerd like me that sits on web forums all day for a living

 

all's I got was my two front teeth, little did they know which road this event would send me.......Driller

 

Wow, Orange, that may be the next color.

Yea, she's a little spoiled, etch a sketch went out years ago, into the box for shipping south.

Sad, but it never ends.

My kids have an armory full of nerf guns, and now they want airsoft.

When I was that age, I had to spend a few days in the garage with scrap lumber, hand tools, and a piece of copper pipe if I wanted a gun to play war with. Tried to explain this, how I built my own Thompson .45 complete with stick mags, and all I got was dumb looks. Of course they ran to the computer to google it, and print out a picture.

Different generation with no imagination.

 

Anyone make an inner tube gun?

Inner tube gun


Rubber gun technology is based on the availability of suitable elastic bands. We traditionally used strips and bands cut from the inner tubes of automotive tires. Since the advent of tubeless tires, this material is increasingly hard to find. But "inner tubing" on snow is still popular, and the tubes must come from somewhere. Industrial and truck tires still use tubes — discarded ones might be found at service stations that engage in this kind of work. Ruined tubes, no longer fit for service, do just fine for our application and might be free for the asking. Live rubber is extinct, having been replaced by butyl (synthetic) rubber in the 40's. Butyl is good and is much more durable than the product from rubber trees. Motorcycle shops are a good place to look for old tubes. Dirt bikes are particularly hell on tires and tubes. Rubber bands, cut from motorcycle inner tubes, can be made longer by loop-knotting two or more together. The ultimate material is surgical tubing but this must be purchased and is expensive. We are interested in things that can be made without cost by a kid.

 

O'man I have got to do this for my daugther, she's 7. Will have the do the docking station to. Does the guy who made the strap take orders? Would like it a bit longer so it hangs down on her hip! This is so funny, cool funny, smile to your face funny. I'm sure there is a Business here some where. Bob.

 

Paracord bracelet with a side release buckle

It shouldn't be that hard to do Just replace the buckle with rings that fit your laptop and of course multiply the needed amount of paracord.

 

Good link buddy, a neighbours Cat & myself are going with a Pink neckless.

o.g.

 

Uhm... Never mind. I'm speechless.

 

I don't want to know.....

 

I got laughed at when I painted my twin daughtersCF-29's Purple and Lime green, now you think the Barbie laptop is cute.

Your all getting soft!

 

Just for fun. How about this! Not just to paint it. Give it a life!


ohlip

 

What kind of paint are you lot using anyway?

 

Have to call them Panasonic SoftBooks. Must be the only computer you can paint or are worth painting.

 

Thanks for the link, now I'll have to try one of those myself.

The pink one was actually done by a young lady who had done a bunch of the bracelets. I gave her the mounting hardware for the cf-18 and the legnth I wanted, and she did it the next day. Went for the two tone paracord, as I thought the pink only would be too much.

Just wait till the jewels go on........

 

I wouldn't have laughed - I think it's adorable, and I bet the twins thought so, too!

I hope the OP will post a pic of the finished product complete with its jewels!




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Yeah they loved them, I have since upgraded them to CF-30's no paint yet though. Thinking of maybe a pink camo pattern.

 

I've been painting lately on my wife's 95 wrangler with a polyurethane paint and it turned out real good. just wondering what type of paint did you guys use on these? my grandaughter might enjoy her first toughbook tricked out in "pretty pink" since her bedroom is painted that color..Driller

 

I used rustolium metalic paint and then finshed it off with a clearcote all bought from HD.

 

TEST site:forum.notebookreview.com/panasonic - Google Search

Replace TEST with powder coat. Interesting stuff.

I drag and drop this into my tool-bar.(The Test Engine by Azrial)

 

In the OP's first post he explains


"ceracoated"

 

CeraKote I think I understand, kind of like porcelin fused to metal which has been in use in dentistry forever, ceracoat I don't recognize. Thanks for pointing out the difference "I'm not shy, I'm just studying my prey" pray long and frequently...Driller

 

Me Too, saves a lot of time

 

I'd love to see a pic of Barbie's finished, bejeweled gift!

 

Maybe it needs a pink dyed leather name badge?

 

Yea, thats the ticket!!

 

How did Barbie's Toughbook go over? Did your little girl love it?

 

Very interesting stuff, that CeraKote.

 

Well,

After several months of working on it and waiting for the big day, she went to visit inlaws in NYC and got money for her birthday and christmas, and promptly bought an ipad. Dope!!!

So, her pink toughbook ended up just being a platform to load itunes, and then to download her videos of the family, the dog and cat. It sits lonely in the corner of the room, so sad

 

Well maybe in a few months the pink TB will be the only one working ....

 

wait to see if you can coax her into using it around her friends. where I live all the kids know what a toughbook is and even when given a laptop to use at school with the insurance on it they tell my co-workers(employees) that they would like the cf-29, cf-18 type laptop. read between the lines, they would love for me to give them one. anyway, it could happen that they will get one. time will tell. I just don't think anything comes close as to being this indestructable and having such a long service life..Driller

 

Yea; wait `til she drops that iPad a few times.

 

Mmmmhmmm...

I suppose the ToughBook could you know... obey gravity... right onto that iPad. What's it worth tooya?

mnem
*iPwned since 2007*

 

Maybe she's "keeping it for best" as the saying goes hereabouts?
In adulthood the fact her Dad built something beautiful and unique just for her will be a memory she cherishes I'm sure.
Every time she uses it.

 

This.

FillerFiller

 

Well, it a shame but thats life.

I guess what realy irks me most is when I was nine years old, if I got a card on my birthday with a ten dollar bill in it I was in high cotton, untouchable. If I wanted a $450. dollar piece of gear I would be saving for years.

But my little queen bee gets the money from one in-law in NYC, must be better per diem rates in the city. She's no dummy, figured out early on it was better to loose baby teeth in NYC, as the tooth fairy there paid more than in florida.

 

They aren't stuppid, those kids, nowadays.
But for what it's worth, I really like the barbie version, looks the world.

But I really dislike these expensive gifts for kids. Not that i don't want them to have the most beautiful things there are, but they don't get any idea how hard you need to work & save for stuff. It all goes too easily.

I have had the iPad as well, but it was to limited in function (e.g. no file-system to speak, no keyboard, not able to withstand water/rain) and the TB is used almost everywhere except when I'm in my office. So when she grows a bit older and wants more functionality out of her iPad, she might switch to the CF-18! Or when the iPad drops on the tile floor in the kitchen.. or when something drops on the iPad... numerous ways an iPad can get damaged as it gets damaged quite easily.

 

This reminds me of my ex-stepdaughter. She still comes and stays one or two weekends with me the month I am off. Her grandparents lived in NYC and retied to Florida. They come about twice a year and take all the grand kids on a big shopping spree. Every times she comes back even more spoiled.

She was "dying" for a ipod touch for Christmas, but I hope she is happy with the older touch screen android phone I picked up for her. Can do the basic same stuff as the ipod touch, camera, music, apps, movies, wi-fi all for under 50 bucks.

One day it will all be like my Atari 2600 and my ex-sister in law asking, "What's an Atari?"