My first Mod... Starcraft 2

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Originally Posted by Roughhouse

Fiberglass sounds like a complicated and difficult procedure. I have never done anything with that. My plan was to vacuum mold the smaller pieces and then attach them to the core unit. Since the main part of the case is fairly boxy I think it will be easy to build it out of the plastic. Also the model is not perfect. There are many details that need to be worked out. ie component placement, how I open and close the case itself, and various other little things that will pop up as I go.

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its not to hard to work with its just mostly messy. my first time was with patching a canoe and it hasn't leaked since, though it was only used twice since i patched it so who knows.

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Originally Posted by Roughhouse

Also something else I am going to try and do is line most of the case with sound proofing material. What it is is a foil backed adhesive. It is used in cars to help eliminate the external noise. They however only use it in small patches. I plan to line the whole case, and since I will be water cooling it shouldn't hurt my temp, especially with two rads.

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ya i've heard/seen that stuff before. it like a thick foil with thermal pad like material on the back of the foil. it helps lower vibrations as well as sound dampening. i last saw if on tv being put in the back of a car with a sound system going in it. they covered the entire truck area with it. if you have no fans on the inside make sure its at least open and the chipsets and etc. have good heatsinks.

Well I have been working on some lighting ideas I have for the case. The first one that I have focused my attention on are the LEDs on the feet. I want to make these blinking. So to do that I did some basic research and came up with this circuit. Now forgive me for any errors in my electronics, this is really the first time for me designing a circuit.

This is the schematic that I used for the circuit

Here is the image of my setup on my breadboard

And here is a quick video of the lights blinking.
blinking lights

Hey
Nice work so far.
With the flasher, at school we made on with a picaxe and one without, using capacitors we had the LEDs flashing without a picaxe. Just a little idea if you don't have enough to buy more pickaxes or something cheaper :).

Sam.

This circuit overall cost about $7. The IC 555 chip is only a $1.70 item. Also to note on this circuit is that I dit not include a switch. My plan is to wire all LEDs into a single control panel and then with a few switches make them all controlable. ie flashing LED or solid LED or no LED. I just want to give the lights and the case some flexability.

Not to go too OT, but I wish they gave SC2 a bit more of a serious look, because the first one was just a tad cartoony, this one is almost big time, but then again, that's the art style Blizzard seems to have at the moment... hmm...

So yeah, first of all, I love that model you've made, that is awesome. Second, your plans for the LEDs and everything sound pretty good. I've been watching this a little and can't wait to see where it goes.

what about adding the .......... legs of the barracks,that way you could put some red leds where the bottom turbines should be and could put some vents down there, nice model and you project sound really good

Yeah I plan on adding the legs. Just modeling them was not really necessary. I think they will be fairly straight forward. That would be a good idea to add some vents on the bottom to help with additional air flow through the case.

i cant really tell the size of this...but what about puttin speakers in those vertical bars towards the center of the case?

Those are about 1 inch wide. I was actually planning on placing more led in thos areas as well. I'm not really sure if good speakers would be available in such a small size. Maybe on the front in the small bumps on each side. Those are about 2 inches wide and I could always recess the speaker back into the case.

Some sort of spotlights would be cool there, just for the hell of it... make them either move around in predetermined paths or make them adjustable, that'd be cool... just a suggestion btw.

EDIT: That or on those other things coming out of the front... the hexagonal pieces jutting out there...