Knight's Rest-Knight Rider 30th Anniversary PC

This looks cool Kayin! I grew up on KR, my dream as a kid was quite simple. I would drive Kitt to work, Airwolf for long commutes, and beat the crap out of bad guys like David Carradine. I missed the mark on that dream a tad, but looks like you are keeping it alive. I really like the idea of using a classic themed man and machine partnership for your Dragon station, clever!
If I may make a suggestion... Now that you have worn your joints down to a nub sleeving all that cable, just for a thought I would consider a more automotive looking sleeve and try to model the PC interior like an engine compartment (such as Boss FX-57). Cableorganizer.org carries some wicked cool cable sleeves and I would be happy to approach them for you at some point. Check some of these out...

I honestly looked at Aeroquip stuff for the cooling (as they do make adapters to watercooling threads) but the cost was enormous.

If you know of any people who would like to sponsor any kind of storage or memory, I can use it. I've got a new card coming that will solve the heat issue, but I'm now searching for memory and storage, as all I have is borrowed memory and a scavenged 5400 RPM laptop drive I'm trying to offload to get some money for storage. The sponsorship e-mails I'm sending out for the most part are not coming back with anything. The list I've got? Yeah, you should see the list I started with.

The interior is mostly planned out, with NASA cable lacing to secure the bundles of wires and the wire clips should get dyed black this week. The rest of the insides are classified (as far as aesthetics) but I should start applying the tank armor soon.

Yes, tank armor, and no, it's not fake.

*drool*

Getting some real modding done...

This is the PCI fan mount, that's situated to blow over the southbridge, video and RAID card.

Attacked with Dremel...

MNPCtech billet grille in place... This will get cleaned up and repainted when I start painting, and when my airflow straightener gets in, it'll go in this.

There it is in place. The cover that goes over it isn't in place yet, I'm taking a look at what I can do differently.

And, an update as to what I'm working on now...

As you can see, someone tried to get into this package before it got to me.

What is it? Well, it's 1000 denier Kevlar-5.6 oz. And it's a fairly large amount-36"x70".

Along with carbon fiber cloth.

KITT was supposed to be waterproof, fire proof, bulletproof and explosionproof. Let's see just how far we can get with today's tech.

This wasn't expected to show up at all, but it did. Yay me!

What's in the box?

Cat! No, she's just resting after tearing through the house. Knocking over floor tiles, stuff like that. You know, cat things.

Hexagonal armor tiles. Almost every piece is in place, and one piece is something that has to be made, not acquired.

I'm reviewing the directions for my resin to decide if I can do it inside or if I have to be outdoors. I'm also looking at a few other ideas to make sure that when I put this together it's gonna stay together and work as intended. No sense in rushing, this stuff while not expensive is honestly just too nice to go and mess up.

This mod is starting to turn more VIPER than Knight Rider.

You won't be able to see the hexes when it's all assembled. Because there's no real chemical like the MBS from the series, I have to get a bit more creative. This isn't the first armor I've made, though this will be the thinnest I've built. I'm shooting for roughly 1 inch thick. The last prototype stopped a shotgun at 6 feet (12 gauge, 00 buckshot) and I have high hopes for these panel, I think I'm gonna get a blasting cap or two to test the test panel I'm making.

I'm not going to shoot the real panels. I'm going to make up a test panel (12"x12") that I plan to shoot with various guns-I have lined up a simple .22, the 12 gauge, 9mm handgun, AK-74 and an SKS. We're planning to shoot video, before anyone asks.

Laying out the panels so I know how everything's gonna fit...

Both sides are set, still have to cut the Kevlar and CF for them.

Also, this arrived.

ASUS HD6950 DirectCUII 2GB. Luthien is testing it in Skyrim for me. Looks great so far...

Small steps, but when they're like this I can make sure I'm not messing something up.

Stiffening the side panels first, carbon cloth cut to size and laid inside to test fit.

Resin poured (keep those fast food plastic items for stuff like this...)

Add hardener (methyl ethyl ketone peroxide)

Here you can see the bottom piece is completely wetted, and the top one is next.

With both pieces wetted, the tiles are laid in place...

And though it's kind of hard to see, resin is spread over the top and scraped between the tiles. This setup is repeated for the other side. The panels are then set aside for three days for the resin to fully cure.

Later I'll start to make the next layer of armor. It's different compositionally from the first part with the CF and ceramic tiles. While this layer is there to stop high-speed projectiles (by destroying the gas jet they use to penetrate, as well as shattering projectiles on the hard ceramic surface) the next layer is designed to entrap any bullets or bullet fragments left, as well as survive gross puncture attempts. The first part imparts rigidity, the second imparts the bulk of the defense.

I'll probably update again when I get started on the materials for the second layer.

Won't be updating progress for a day or so. Yesterday I had an anaphylactic reaction while my wife was gone with her mother. I was able to get myself to help in time, obviously, but I really just don't feel well. I responded perfectly well to medication, but it doesn't change the fact that that is VERY hard on your body. So I'm being lazy, cutting Kevlar while watching movies and such.

I'll be back in a day or so with progress, but I just didn't want people wondering if I HAD died.