Project: [Storm] - 120508 - Pt.1

thank you m8´s!!!!:D:D

today we integrate another power plug and a On/Off Switch in the backside of the case.....

after that we cutted the first 3 parts of the sidepanel mechanism....

i think tomorrow we´re going to concentrate on the opening/closing mechanism so that we can show you how this will work....:)

I love this forum it never ceases to amaze me the skill which is put into your work if i can do half as good as this i will be happy

thanks a lot!!!

like i promised we started the building process of the sidepanel opening mechanism.....

then we attached the first parts to the case...

...just to see where we have to make the next cuts....so that the sidepanel can be opened completely

That is nice work there.

thanks a lot guys!!!

in the last days we were busy on planning another gimmick we want to place inside the front.....

therefore we made a rectangle hole inside the backside of the front....inside the hole we want to mount a small webcam....

then we quick draw on the otherside....

and put on a bit more bondo....

and we cutted the raw video material we shooted up to now....so here are the first 2 parts of the video worklog....:clap::clap:

Nice progress.

Very nice work...
At first I wasn't sure where you where trying to go with this mod, but the farther you go the better it gets!

You can be sure I will be following along...

+rep for tinking out side the box...literally! ;)

That is some great work, I love the ideas. +rep and subscribed.

thank you all!:D

in the last days we made some progress on the Holder for the Water Reservoir...

at first we bended the 2 Plexi Holders for the rez into a 90° angle

then we drill out some plexi circles....

and cutted them into 2 halfs

.......at least we drilled 3 holes in all of them......then we put 3 plexi rods through the half circles so that we got an element which will be placed between the bended Plexi Holders for the rez....

Wow that looks cool, keep it up =)

This just keeps getting better and better...needless to say:

+rep, and a late /subscribe. I'm diggin the plexi work you've got going on here!

looking cool that think is nice

Nice res holders, looking great.

thanks a lot guys!!!

a small update:

yesterday we finished the rez holder....

then we made a test run with the first side panel.....as next we will stabilize the whole movement with the rest of the mechanism....

nice res holder i love it very kool

That looks very cool, fantastic work.

your header is in place. Let me know if the title needs changed.

Thank you very much jdbnsn!!!! i really like it and i don´t think that changes were needed (i think the title will stay)....:D:D:D

in the last couple of days i did a little bit of engraving...not for this project....but its also nice....:D

on this project we also did some progress....

we add the next pieces to the front...this time we covered the optical drives so that they will be integrated in the final front....

then we cutted out the next parts which will be used to finish the lower part of the front....

then we also glued the pre cutted plexi rods together, sanded and polished both pieces ...they will later be used on the outer body of this mod

then we cut out the marked square in the upper part of the front....

inside this hole we will place a webcam which will film the inside of an plexisheet which will cover the complete hole....

This complete thing will be used as a next gen Input device....you can find more informations about it here

and i have shot a small desktop video of the first test run so that you can see it actually works....(and i really have not done the fine tuning....:D)

Nice project! Keep on going.

Very nice engraving, you have real talent there.

hellz yeah nice work mate

thanks a lot guys!!!


we have done some progress in the last days.....:banana::D:D

we put the lower part of the front in place and fixed it in its position with some tape....so we can see where we have to file a little bit so that everything gets smooth at the end.....

beside that we cutted out some triangles which will be used to mount the plexirod sheets on.....

than we put the next part of the opening mechanism for the second lower sidepanel in place.....

oh so its gunna likr fold out kool nice work

thanks!

in the last days we spent a lot of time in planning the electrial part for the opening mechanism, but beside that we made the first LED Module for the rez....

then we cropped the small triangles on the sidepanels so that we match the shape of the front.....then we put the plexi-rod-sheet testwise in place to see if they fit ....

we also finished the raw structure of the front part .....later when everything is dry....we can sand it in the right shape....

beside that we started a new casemod....this time a lancool metal boned k7.....it gets a nice engraving.....here is the first part of it .....

wow what a res!! thats some nice engraving to

Man that res turned out B-E-A-utifully. Real nice work on the engraving.

thanks a lot guys!!!

And i have some good news!! We have a plattform! a big THANK YOU to Thomas @ Abit which sends us this cutie!!!
:D:D

beside that we spent nearly 16 hours on engraving the sidepanel for the lancool mod....(Work is still in progress)

and we did some progress on the front.....

like the claps which covers the DVD Drives....

very nice i like them alot..

This is looking really good. I love the engraving for the Lancool mod.

Extremely interesting front panel design.
That etching is badass! +Rep

thanks a lot guys!!!


@The boy 4rm oz yeah i really love this theme too.... i think it will look great when its finished....

in the last 2 days we were busy with sanding/bondo/sanding/painting/sanding/painting the front part...so that it will be finished soon.....

beside that we put the next LED elements testwise in place to see if they are going to disturb us in any way....but they didn´t do...so they can stay....

then we screwed the first servo to the backplate to finger out how we will connect the servo to the sidepanel holding arms....

Awesome. I can't wait to see it all moving together.

@the Boy 4rm oz me too!!!!!

yesterday + today we did some progress on the outside of the case....therefore we prepared some polystyrene stripes which will cover the outside of the case.......

Great progress, it's looking really smooth.

thanks!! :up:

in the last days we started to build a CPU Cooler....therefore we took 3 copper plates (from old cpu coolers) which we overworked....the first plate was prepared to hold the water plugs....the second plate only gets a cutout so that it can be placed in the middle....and the 3rd plate was milled with a grid where the water should flow through.....

then we cut out some heat pipes out of an old coolermaster hyper 6 cooler which we will integrate into our cpu cooler...

beside that we spent some time on the outer parts....therefor we cutout a lot plastic parts, which we use to build the covers for the radiators and fans....

Nice DIY cooler lol.

thanks a lot!!!!!:thumb::D

yesterday we had to overwork the cover for the upper sidepanel, because it hadn´t the right measurements....so we rebuild a slim version and changed the design for the faceplates.....

then we also integrate the hole for the water reservoir

and made some progress on the CPU Cooler

hopefully the cooler will be done today.....

This seem to be a friggin behemoth of a computer, love it :)

:thumb::Dthanks a lot !!!!:clap::clap::clap:


today we made some progress on the cooler...it´s nearly finished now....i think tomorrow we´re going for a first test run with a QX6700 to see how it performs...

after we attached the last copper plate we sanded the complete copper part and then we connected the heatpipes to it.....

after that we made a first test run with water to see if there are no leaks....needless to say that everything is fine and dry :D:thumb:

i just weighed the cooler and it weighs 439 gramms with the heatpipes but without water...

soo today we made the first test run with a cpu under our cooler.....:rock:

and it was a good run:jawdrop::D:thumb:

first we tested how hot our cpu (intel qx6700) gets with our old cooler....after a few hours of vista + surfing the net we got a temps around 38-39°....room temp around 27°...then we played 1 hour race driver grid to warm it up....after that we got temps around 47-48°....

then we shut down everything and switched the cooler for our new one.....then we wait a little bit to give the water the chance to cool down...after the cooldown phase we power up the system ....then we checked the temps...30-31°...but the room temp has also gone done to 25°....so we run another hour of race driver grid and made the last temp check.....36-37°........i think for a first run it´s a really good result!!!:rock: