Plugging in your own DVD drive works, but it doesn’t have the same feel as having one simply built-in. Has anyone modified the bottom case to include a DVD drive? I have, and I would share it, but it’s untested and won’t be tested for a long time, plus Framework won’t let me upload because my account is too new.
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People tend to use services like github to share open source or copyleft creations.
I look forward to seeing some pictures of this.
I wanna see it so I updated your trust level. Show us the drive (please)
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Yessss, please show this! I believe this is the first physical disk drive mod for a Framework Laptop.
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@Half_D_Chord don’t leave us hanging 
Personally I just lug around a USB enclosure with a desktop sized drive these days, but having experienced an ancient DVD playing Dell laptop that is objectively better than all modern laptops in many respects, I’m seriously invested in any and all DVD player mods for FW16…
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Mark me as interested also.
Perhaps could put a USB C hub in there for more modules. Could have one of each with the 6 (or 5 if used for the uplink) on the laptop then 3 more on each side and the DVD in the front: if placed smartly; the high speed (USB4) stuff on the laptop and low speed stuff (SD, Audio etc.) on the bottom.
Update: I messed up, because my PC isn’t powerful enough to run real CAD software yet. I accidentally made it for the Framework laptop 16 mainboard case instead of the actual laptop’s shell. But it could still have use, I believe. So here’s a screenshot of TinkerCad (the software I used to make it) and the STL files. This is just the bottom shell, and I didn’t know much of anything about sizes so the model may need adjustment. But it should be compatible with the official top shell model.
Framework DVD drive case.stl (288.6 KB)
DVD drive cover.STL (226.3 KB)
Edit: I put it on github: GitHub - halfdchord/Framework-optical-drive-case: A basic bottom case for the Framework Laptop 16 mainboard case that adds in a strange feature, a relic of the old times if you will: a slot for an Optical drive. · GitHub
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