Typoena
Enclosure concept · typewriter body
Panel
GDEY0579T93
Board
ESP32-S3
Units
mm
Scale
to-fit
Rev
v0 · concept
Date
2026-07-11

The screen is the sheet of paper. A shallow sage wedge with a reclined deck; the e-paper strip sits where a typewriter's page would be, a decorative platen roller and two knobs ride the back edge, and the keyboard you bring rests in front. Every dimension below is from the real datasheets — this is the shape to react to before I cut the parametric model.

body platen / deck / feet e-paper dimensions

## Side profile — the silhouette

The money view: shallow deck reclined ~18°, platen & knob at the back, ports on the tail, your keyboard ghosted in front.

## Front elevation — width

Letterbox screen across the deck; knobs poke past the sides.

## Top plan — deck layout

Screen forward, platen band aft, ports along the back edge.

### 01 Cheap-ish body

You picked the higher-material form, but it stays a shell: ~2.4 mm walls, open bottom, a screwed baseplate. Hollow inside, no infill spent on a solid block.

### 02 Color does the work

Print the body in matte sage, platen & knobs in cream or black. Two-tone via a filament change reads unmistakably "typewriter" for free.

### 03 Decorative cues

Platen roller + two knobs are cosmetic (your call) — printed separately, no wiring, no GPIO. Round feet finish the machined look.

### 04 Fragile glass

The 1 mm panel drops into a rebate behind a bezel lip that overlaps ~6 mm; the FPC folds back to the DESPI-C579 breakout in the cavity.

### 05 The one tunable

Deck angle is the ergonomics dial. 18° is typewriter-shallow; 28–35° reads better seated. Say the word and I'll steepen it.

### 06 Optional lid

Your docs say "hinged lid" — a cover latching over the deck echoes a portable typewriter's case and guards the glass in a bag. Toggled off by default.

Typoena · writing appliance Screen 150.9 × 56.9 × 1.0 · active 139.0 × 47.7 · pitch 0.1755 Orthographic · third-angle · not for manufacture