Project: Alien Hospital

Buttons seem to work fine by now.
I made a new button panel, divorced the q-touch circuit from the display circuit (with his own power supply, to filter voltage spikes) and mounted it in the display.
He can even register my finger when having it 1-2cm above the sensor itself, so i can tweak that with other capacitors. Because they should only switch when really touching them. Once i fit the leds sensitivity could change.

The new buttons. I routed some acrylic away between the buttons to fit the metal wire.

A view from the other side

What's that?

It was the rough cut for this part. A small acrylic strip, which can light up :) Good for details :smoker:

Now with the tape removed.

Getting the displays ready to be painted :) (black, to make them less visible)

The DVD/cardreader bezel.

Next things:
- painting the displays
- mounting them
- programming their functions (they share the same program/symbols ATM)
- mounting the LCD panel
- figure out which connections should be made from the PC to this case (USB, power, various power/data signals etc. So i can order cables & connectors for it.)

Ahhh, picked up some hardware at cooler master yesterday, and i can't resist showing it, since i;m so happy with it 8)

Freaking 1000watts of modulair power :eek: Overkill in fact, but who cares :D Will be used in this mod offcourse.

Oh, and the case I've been following since his first prototype:

The cosmos. Currently in the state of light dissemble and creating ideas for it.

http://digg.com/mods/Re_Project_Alien_Hospital

I have to admit: I've never visited digg.com, so i just did. Its nice creating content by user input :) Just want to say that the updates from the last days are great (chatroom, awards etc. ) Thanks for that :)

If you are still looking for metal that has been engine turned (the circular pattern aluminum you were looking for), I can tell you how to make it on your own. Using your Proxxon micro-mill, you need to chuck up a piece of hard cylindrical rubber (or you can use a pencil with the eraser end down). The end that will come into contact with the metal should be flat (you can flatten it on your own by running it against a piece of sandpaper first if necessary). You then need to coat the rubber end that will contact the metal with valve grinding compound (you should be able to get this at any decent auto shop, or online). You then just run the rubber cylinder/eraser against the metal at around 100-200rpm (or whatever works and won't cause the rubber to spiral out of control and that won't spray valve grinding compound all over you and your shop). You then want to move your x-y table over by about 3/4s to 5/8ths the diameter of the rubber or eraser you are using. When you move down to your next row (by the same fraction of the diameter you were moving over on the horizontal), you will get a better pattern if you alternate the spirals so that they are staggered by the diameter of your tool (search for Engine Turning or Jeweling on google and you will find an image of how the pattern should look). If you have any questions, feel free to PM me and I'll help out where I can.

--BlaeceAelf (aka. Wintermute)

Thanks, that information is very usefull!
I havn't really been looking for it, i'm shure there are some shops where i can order it. Or else, i can try your way ;)

wow dude. i just looked and read through all 26 pages. it took an hour and a half.
best hour and a half i've had this week.
AMAZING mod.
and SICK parts dude.
I wish i could get sponsored for anything. haha
+rep!

Woah, i had some busy times. Offcourse i took a break to build the cosmod casemod. But even after that i was short in time. But past week i managed to spend some time on the power buttons. I mounted the displays beneath the touch buttons:

Mate those look fantastic. +rep for you

now thats just AWESOME _ferry_!