Project: Sting

nice
i love it man really nice good work...

That bad boy looks like a BATTLE BOT! :up:

Apologies for such late reply, I am currently very busy with a casemod for a competition here in Holland.
Still, I have found a little time in between, to do s very small update. I fastened the arms to the chassis with rivets.

Here they will be fastened.

Now a on-off switch and a reset switch.

With polystyreen I made a small subframe to prevent the knob of sticking out too much.

And this one for the on-off switch, this one is allowed to stick a bit more out.

Fastened with construction-glue.

View from the rear.

Here you see the reset which is below the surface.

again apologies for my late reply, If you want, I can post the worklog of the new casemod ( Command & Conquer GDI Construction Yard building ) also here on TBCS.

THIS THINGS AWESOME! +rep

I'd love to see that C&C mod too :up:

Yep she is looking mighty fine mate. Keep up the good work.

very cool :) looking fresh man

^vwxy623 reorted for spamming.

Cut up a lot of wires and meshed them.

Mounted switches for all motors, leds and laser.

In close-up.

Unfortunatly I made a mistake.....

This triangle piece was planned to cover the switches, but the outer most switch is now in its way and has to be moved.

Ok, so I drilled another hole and now its all ok again.

lookin sweet, I cant wait to see this thing done!

I love this mod, looks very cool.

+rep for progress.

nice work so far man hows round 3 going?

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Originally Posted by DonT-FeaR

nice work so far man hows round 3 going?

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Well, round 3 is still underway, I hope Dec 16 will be the finale. But back to this project;

Connected everything what I could find, looks really messy!

Right side.

Left side in the light.

Left side in the dark. Here you can see that EL tape glowing quite nice.

Overview in the dark, the EL tape is still loose, but you can allready see the glow

emiting I mentioned before.

A little more close-up of the right arm, the "hand" has no blades attached.

looks crazy! keep it up :up:

I like the green EL tape. It goes good with your color scheme. I used some el wire before but I got a really high pitch whine that came from the transformer, so I was curious if the tape did the same thing.

The tape was a great adition.

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Originally Posted by rendermandan

I like the green EL tape. It goes good with your color scheme. I used some el wire before but I got a really high pitch whine that came from the transformer, so I was curious if the tape did the same thing.

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Well, at first..... I DID hear a real high whine when I started the comp... and I thought the same thing as you described. Then I realised I had one of the motors in the arms on. That motor made the whine in my mod. LOL I DID however hear of your problem, with EL tape/high voltage transformers. A friend of mine suggested a rubberband wrapped around the transformer, but I dont know if that is any help to you.

tape looks awsome nice work man

Started with the outside covers. This is one of the two rear-triangles.
After the construction-glue sets, ill tidy up the edges.

This is the replacement fan-hand, made from an old VGA-fan.

The left side.

Making the final adjustments.

Glued the covers to the aluminium strips on the side.

View from the rear-left side.

Close-up of one of the gills.

To fit the large strip on the front-left side, I need to cut out a piece for the arm.

Nice and tight fit.

When the right side is fastened, the case is starting to show its shape a lot better.

this things one of the coolest cases I've ever seen :bowdown:

I LOVE this mod, so awesome.

Like I said, I made a mistake with the strips that come on top of the mod. I made them too short!

I thought of something that would not only deal with that mistake, but also give it a bit extra.
First I made some small pieces of circuitboard, that will act as supports.

Then I made these small strips from UV green plexi.

These will come here on top of the supports.

With a little glue and a clamp, set to dry.

When the lights hit the strips, they light up like a xmass tree.

And here two overview shots, now you see the size of the mod entirely.

nice

lookin sweet :up:

That's bigger than I thought it was, very nice work.

why is everything you work on so small>??? oh well i guess thats why we love ur work :P nice

LOL, relax Dont-Fear, next case will be a biggie again. I even have a plan here for a full-size bigtower project. You know one of the ancient massive ones. Gonna be fun !

sweeeet man cant wait love your work

Once again I'm blown away. :freakedout: Absolutely LOVE it! +rep on the ingenuity and recycling. Can't wait to see it done.

thanx mate, much appriciated.

Time to give the little beast some legs. These I make from old 2.5" harddrives. These are the discs that sit on top.

Cut in half.

Then glued to the mod with constructiekit. ( a little bit too much here )

Three times on the left and three times on the right.

The legs are made from the actual read-write heads from those laptop-drives.

Once the kit is hardened, it should be looking a bit like this.

:O wow u ARE a genius

this is looking pretty sweet. :)

indeed, looks awesome :up:

This Is awesome!!! I would never have thought to use old mother boards!!

Well, there not motherboards, these are industrial PCB's. But old motherboards should be also very good.

Ok, After reviewed the critics, I decided to make three extra limbs for the rear legs.

Now there much more in proportion.

Last to do is to connect them to the chassis and then final testing.

Are they read/write arms from HDDs? lol. Excellent addition.

hee hee, I love "Frenkie-style"!

that came out really well.. nice work

That is a sweet idea that! I just stumbled upon this log and I have to say I am impressed.

Thanx guys, youre the best !

Ok ok last modification for the rear-legs; by combining two ideas of readers ( thank you for that! ) I made two sections, one thicker sandwich from circuitboard, plexie and circuitboard. And one thinner and smaller one with one circuitboard less.

To bring back the aluminium-look, I used a 3mm strip to hold it all together.

Looks nice with a little light behind it.

I glued the read-write heads to the legs and then sanded the whole smooth.

I just had to modify the large arms with more circuitboard, to get it more "in-sync", agreed?

Check Meijer Ad and Walgreens Ad.

With the EL-tapes on, in the light you dont see much of them...

...but in half-light it looks just as I expected it would.

Still have a hard time making pix in the dark, but this should give you an idea.

And the other side.

And front/top.

An overview with the flashlight.

This is the end of the work-log. I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed making the case.

Frenkie