Loving the idea for the keyboard mate. Can't wait to see that PICO water cooled. Nice workshop BTW.
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Loving the idea for the keyboard mate. Can't wait to see that PICO water cooled. Nice workshop BTW.
nice shop dude
@The Boy 4rm oz - Thanks man, the pico should be the first part to get finished off... assuming my aquagate arrives as planned.
@Dont-Fear - Thanks man. The shop is actually my fathers MAN CAVE, but of course he doesn't mind my tinkering.
In case anyone is still a bit confused as to my plans for the Pico I'll outline it below:
The 40.2mm radiator will be cooled by 2 of the cool air intake 40mm fans mounted in the front panel/drivebay.
The stock Pico-ITX heatsink has had a flat spot milled into it to allow me to afix the CoolerMaster Aquagate pump/block to it.
I asked xtreme0915 to send me some pics of the aquagates pump/waterblock, hopefully this will fill in the blanks:
wow thats tiny man....
Another parts update:
My parcel from SparkFun arrived this morning. As did my box from AquaComputer, only I won't be able to pick it up from the post office until later this evening.
So-far we have:
The BlinkM RGB LEDs
The Arduino control board
The Female serial plug that will allow me to convert the USB>Serial adapter from Male to Female.
I'll have my AquaComputer stuff tonight, so tune in then.
Thanks for reading.
So I see you have experience in programming C/assembly. In my opinion it would have been easier for you to build a custom rgb controller than implement I2C communication with a controller. I would say it would have been even less coding to do that.
You can easily implement color change between blue and red if you buy a temp chip and implement it using I2C once again. There are some other cool sensors available too.
Regarding the 100 LEDs then just hook up some transistors and it should work well. Don't forget to do the math first. If you have any problems regarding programming arduino or any implementation - write me.
2 things: I want your shop, and I'm going to be subscribing--I considered the BlinkMs for a mod, and am curious as to how they're gonna work out.
@custom_electronics_man - Thanks for the advice. I have considerable programming experience but Arduino will be new to me, but I figure it can't be that hard. As for the 100 or so white LEDs I'm going to split them into 5-6different zones, which will help with the wiring a little bit. You'll probably end up getting some communications from me in the future, thanks a lot for the offer.
@DrumThumper - Thanks man... tune in and we'll see how well they work out.
Again many many thanks to my sponsor AquaComputer for generously providing the following:
For those of you who aren't aware of the power of the AquaComputer components. here is a small demonstration video showing the power of the AquaComputer system (aquaero display, aquastream pump, multiswitch, tubemeter water level sensor, aquasuite software).
Here you will find AquaCopmuter's explanation of the AquaComputer automated "monitoring" hardware.
Aquaero 4.00:
AquaComputer 90degree swivel elbows:
AquaComputer Flow Sensor:
Multiswitch 1.41:
And the center pieces of the system... PrometheusCU Edition G200 waterblocks. Aquacomputer was generous enough to build two of these fore this project. (Note that the Prometheus text appears 'burnt' in the images but this doesn't show up to the naked eye)
More assembly to come soon.
Thanks for reading!
AquaComputer makes some really fantastic stuff. Like the PrometheusCu edition water block mate. Quality.
@The boy 4rm oz - Many thanks man, nothing but the best =)
The CoolerMaster Aquagate Duo generously donated by xtreme0915 of the SliZone forums has arrived today!
I will be using the Aquagate's clever little waterblock/pump assembly to cool the pico board.
Here is how the waterblock will be mounted to the Pico-ITX board. Note that I've yet to construct a proper bracket for mounting.
Here is a pic of the board next to the rad that will be cooling it.
Here's a quick glimpse of my desk right now, it's been sitting like this for about a month... I really need to pick up the pace.
I am really hoping that water cooled PICO works for you. I really wanna have a mess around with a PICO board.
Watercooling a pico. +Rep
First time I have seen this done.
Looks like the GPU watercooling system
. .will be efficient enough cool the pico.
@The boy 4rm oz - Thanks for the vote of support, again I can't recommend the Pico more... it's just so cool.
@Eclecticos - Since the Pico-ITX board doesn't need cooling I'm pretty sure that even this modest loop is more than overkill. I'm pretty sure that this is the worlds first watercooled Pico I search for others but I've found no-one else mad enough to do it.
so small.... looks pretty sweet
That key would look amazing
do you intend on a mouse and screen to match as well?
@DonT-FeaR - Aye, it is small... and damn sexy if I do say so myself.
@scar~face - Thanks. I'm definitely making a mouse but a screen may be tricky as I currently have 5-screens for my setup (1x42" 2x22" 2x19") and the project itself will ahve 3xscreens built into the case. If there is time, and $$ left I'll be making 5 monitor mods, but don't hold me to that.
very sexy... (????) lol good work keep it up
i like the look. very clean. most excellent progress.
@DonT-FeaR - Sexy... indeed! The metal fabricator in me loves to stare at these blocks and the fabrication quality.
@Dane Bramage - Thanks man, I'm moving as fast as I can. ;)
I've been away from the forums for a while, but I just learned my lesson. Fantastic mod, +rep and subscribed.
TheMainMan
Wow... I get buried under work, and dig myself out to find this...
I really need to spend more time here. o.o
+rep +sub.
This is gonna be sick. Im lovin it so far.
@TheMainMan - Thanks a lot man, hopefully I'll catch you around town some time. ;)
@Helix666 - Happy to be a reason for dragging you away from the real world mate. Thanks!
@grayfox2 - Many thanks.
My machinist (who is doing all my work for free BTW) called me today declaring that he will work though the night if necessary, I'll have the prototype parts cut tomorrow. It's been a crazy time for him and I can't really hold anything against him considering the predicament, also he just moved his shop to a new building at the beginning of Sept.
I have a new dilemma however.
Corsair has been kind enough to provide 8GB(4x2gb) of Dominator 1066mhz RAM with no heat spreaders attached, only they've expressed a little caveat which has me thinking.
With these MIPS Computer GmbH has been very kind and has sponsored me with a RAM Freezer 4 memory waterblock:
However since Dominator ram has additional PCB height to aid in heat dissipation:
I'm concerned that the Dominator RAM may not work with the RAM Freezer 4.
Of course I could ask Corsair to provide a RAM from the XPS series that does not have the extra height, but I'm waiting for MIPS Computer to get back to me with measurement specifications.
I've also taken delivery of a couple other aesthetic items this week, I'll have pics up tomorrow or early weekend.
Thanks for reading... and waiting... see you all soon.
Congratz on the front page mate. Loving those RAM coolers.
The boy 4rm oz - Thanks mate.
Sorry for the delays folks, but my metal is still not cut (don't get me started... I'm pissed) and until it's installed I cant really do a whole lot else.
I decided to try my hand at fabricating panels from my fabric. These were soaked in resin and pressed at an obesene pressure of several thousand tonnes.
You don't get this look from carbon decal!
The next one is the closest thing to a definition of "indestructible" as you'll ever find. I don't know how many layers there are in this - but it's about a 1/2" thick. It will be used for a few structural components.
I've also got a few yards of copper mesh, I have a few plans for this stuff it looks really cool when wrapped tightly around wires and cables.
Another generous donated product courtesy of Mach over at TheBestCaseScanario's forums. Some braided copper sleeve.
Lastly we've got 100' of 18gage copper flat wire to be wrapped around the black tubing for aesthetic reasons.
Also the metallic copper paint I ordered on July 27th is still not even shipped yet which is holding up some of my smaller mods.
I'm just playing the waiting game from now until when my metal is cut. I've done a few little things like lapping my GPU's and CPU, other than that noting big.
I am loving the detail you are going into my friend. Can't wait to see the cables with the copper accents and what you end up doing with that CF.
nice work... love the look of copper..
Suh-weet, you found a vendor for the copper mesh. Did you source locally or have to have it shipped from India? Can't wait for mod pr0n :)
@The boy 4rm oz - Thanks mate. The devil is in the details.
@DonT-FeaR - Thanks.
@Mach - I managed to find a eBay source for a great price too - it is a fabric mesh but it bloody well looks the part regardless (plus it weighs much less than a true copper weave). I'll fire you off a PM with the source. And THANKS again for the copper sleeve - it's pimp.
No worries, let me know if you need more.
Definitely shoot me a PM on the supplier
this things incredible! cant wait to see more updates!
@Mach - PM sent sir.
@SXRguyinMA's - Thank you very much, there is much much more to come... lots of cool **** that has yet to be revealed in it's entirety.
SOME RELEVANT NEWS!
I've got Watercool Germany on-board now. They've generously offered to provide some waterblocks from their new 'Heatkiller' V3.0 lineup coming at the end of October. With this addition I'll be removing the D-Tek Fuzion and perhaps cooling the motherboard as well.... which calls for another Aquastream XT pump IMO.
I'm very very excited about this - I have to give some credit to ModSquad as I've never heard of the Watercool Heatkiller before he posted the image of one of their blocks in his CopperHead mod. Suffice to say I fell in love and had to have them.
For those of you not familiar with the HeatKiller blocks, here's a tase:
More to come, thanks for reading.
theese blocks will fit your theme 2tm!
They are some seriously sexy and well crafted blocks, they look the part and they cool very well. Congratz on the new sponsor.
Congratz man. Cant wait to see the finished product. Those blocks by the way or beautiful becasue they are so simple. Nice clean lines. After you get it built definatly want to know how well those blocks work.
Hey been reading your project, its amazing ive never seen anything like it great work, one thing with the last picture above of the motherboard you have all the waterblocks in place the one closest to the pci-express slots seems a bit worrying if you have tubes out of there the gtx -280s wouldnt seem to fit. Just a observation you might find a way round it :D
cheers
That isn't a pic he took. That is a reference pic from the manufacturer web site show casing all of their blocks. A GTX280 would fit due to the PCB being in line with the center of the PCI slot. The mosfets ads such would be on a seperate loop anyway to keep temps down so the tubing wouldn't really interfere with the GPU.
