Wow, you work fast and clean! This looks amazing and you are sticking with your plans! Admirable! +rep for the beautiful work log and craftsmanship.
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Wow, you work fast and clean! This looks amazing and you are sticking with your plans! Admirable! +rep for the beautiful work log and craftsmanship.
LOL, I have no idea what that was. probably a commercial or something. my son was watching Sponge Bob Square pants while I was working. I don't really pay attention to what is on tv, I just have it on for background noise.Quote:
Originally Posted by The boy 4rm oz
-funny that that caught YOUR interest though! :think:
You're using styrene for most of the work now, right? Where'd you get it, locally, internet? Know of any hardware stores that carry it?
i think he is using these links now. i think your local hobby shops should have them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Killdrath
Great looking case so far, Renderman. I am really impressed with the iris, that's a great bit of work there. Can't wait to see it all together.
Yes, I'm using Styrene, I've found that for anything that would require some type of structural integrity, I should use styrene. for the decorative stuff I'm going to use matt board, much cheaper and easier to cut!Quote:
Originally Posted by .Maleficus.
I bought the sheets at a local place called Hobby town. They sell all kinds of modeling supplies as well as remote controlled stuff. planes, cars, trains etc.
FYI, I will be gone for at least 10 days. my work is sending me to Sunny SanFrancisco for a job. So untill I get back, sadly this will have to be put on hold.
Later!
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Originally Posted by rendermandan
Have fun on your trip and welcome to California. I'm about 30 minutes from San Fran. Bring your jacket, it's almost always chili there (50s - 60s). Lately, it's been pretty nice though.
thanks for the weather update. I didn't realize it was going to be that chilly there. I'll have to bring some jeans and a jacket!
looking sweet dude.
i donlt know if its me or if the pic is off, but when the vents open for the rad, are a few of them off angle, i think it may juist be the image making it look that way,
pease,
XcOM
Hey guys, -Sorry I've been a way for a while. I'm down in San Francisco working on measuring a hotel. -Won't be able to get back till next week sometime. -This is alot of work. I'm putting in 11-12 hr days straight. We also don't get unlimited internet access. We have to pay for it, so my boss today said we could get it for 1 hr to check our email. So I've obviously been using my time more wisely and checking the TBCS Forum! -Don't have time to go into alot of detail but I've got a new idea for the case, I'll fill you guys in next week.
-Later,
Sweet, I can't wait.. I've been checking almost daily for updates. This project has really motivated me to start gathering supplies and materials to get into styrene modeling.. hope to see new info soon..
+rep
Wow, I dont know how I missed this. Another person using styrene for their mod! Great job Dan, it's coming along awesomely! I am looking forward to seeing this come together. All the servo work is sweet too.
+rep! :D
Hey everyone, I'm finally back from my trip. -God that was long.
I should be able to get back on this today sometime. Just trying to catch up on some sleep first.
Enjoy your sleep dan! :D
I'm new to the forum bought saw your iris and had to post. I know in woodworking if we need identical peices we stick them all together and cut and sand it as one piece. I'm not sure if this is possible with styrene though having never used it
That is a good point. In fact I have tried that method but what happens with Styrene is it the thicker the material gets, the hotter it makes the blade when you cut it, then at a certain point, it just starts to melt the styrene together, then you have a real mess!Quote:
Originally Posted by turis
Thanks though. and Welcome to TBCS!
Finally the long awaited update!!!
I picked right up where I left off.
Because the Radiator will stick out of the side of the case sligtly, I traced the perimeter of the radiator on the side panel. -Man working with clear material really makes this easy!!!
Then I cut it out.
And here it is on the case. You can see how much it sticks out.
The idea is to build a cover that goes over the radiator. but you can still remove the side panel without taking the radiator out. -That will make it much easier to work on.
Then I turned my attention to the hard drive mounts.
Here is the one that came with the sunbeam case.
I turned the case upside down. So your looking at the bottom of the case in this one. -I drilled some holes to mount the verticle drive sides to the bottom.
but I decided that I would never need 5 spaces. so to make some room, I cut them down shorter.
Then I simply screwed them to the bottom of the case.
here it is with a old defunct hard drive as a test fit. I have room for 2 drives.
Next up was the fan controller. Here is the one out of my current case:
I took off the bay cover I made earlier. and made a new on out of styrene.
The idea here is to have it motorize out of the side of the case in a tilting motion. The servo will be mounted to one side of the verticle arms.
here is the servo horn attached to the side piece.
And here it is on all together.
The last part I did for the night was to round off the bottoms of the verticle legs.
I still have to assemble it, mount it, cut the hole in the side of the case etc. etc.
Untill next time.... Happy modding :)
Fantastic work as always dan, keep it up. Can't wait to see how the iris is going by the way.
Nice.. Man, I think you have been gifted with mod powers! Great work.. more.. more! :)
Yeah, we want more... Please tell me you are going to work on this some more tonight?
ok, here is another update.
I decided that I needed to remake the side bars for the fan controller. i shouldn't have rounded both ends. so i made these:
here they are installed on the fan controller. -I had to make them longer due to the sides, front and back because of the depth of the knobs and switches.
Then I made the mounting plate for the bottom:
I added some gussets for strength and to limit flexing of the mounts.
This is where it will go in the case.
Then I laid the side cover over it and drew an outline as to where the cut the panel:
here it is cut out. -the bottom of the panel is cut at an angle due to the motion of the panel. the top angles out, but the bottom angles inward.
here it is mounted with the side panel:
here it is angled out.
closed:
opened:
And here it is with the clear side panel mounted to it. -Its clear because I want light to be able to transmit through. but most will be covered.
That is one more motorized part done. Now its on to the IRIS and one other item. I have to include usb ports, a SD media card reader, and I'd like to include a water temperature gauge somewhere, but I'm not sure what to do to motorize it. anyone have any ideas? Ive got lots of room directly above the fan controller. I was thinking about a tube that motorizes out from the side of the case...
I was thinking about getting one of these: http://www.xoxide.com/thermaltake-t-...indicator.html anyone have any experience with it?
Later!
As a pre-made option for the iris, how about a follow spot light drop in iris?
here are a couple reviews of the temp monitor.
MADSHRIMS review
RBMODs review
Thanks for the review links. +rep
Dan,
I have the same water temp sensor you are thinking about. I haven't had any problems with it at all. I agree with the first review. The sensor is not entirely accurate, but I feel it does the job. The pics below are of my system. I took them tonight so you could see the temp difference. You can see the thermaltake sensor, and the other temperatur is taken using a commercial temperature gun. I am dismanteling it to use in my mod.;)
My water circuit is as follows:
res, pump, rad, cpu, vga, thermaltake sensor, back to res.
I have the temp gun in the res, right after the sensor (about 10" of tubing away from the sensor).
Can anyone say, 'Cable Management'?
- Remy
BTW, Welcome back from SF. You got out just before the rain got here.
Remy, Thanks for the pics. Interesting idea about the commercial thermometer. Is that an infrared or laser thermometer? if so that may be why you are seeing a big difference in temps. the Thermaltake is actually measuring the water temperature with direct contact. as where an infrared will only measure the temperature surface. -that is just a best guess so, so don't quote me on that. :) +rep to you.
I'm going to order one of those as soon as I figure out what else I need. I like to combine orders to save on shipping.
Dan
I placed my order for the Thermaltake temp monitor and a few 120mm turbine fans that I'm going to replace the fans in the turbine mod. They look alot more like a turbine than the ones I had. here are the ones I ordered. http://www.xoxide.com/aerocool-xtrem...000-black.html
Now I just have to figure out how I'm going to motorize the temperature monitor panel along with a sd media card reader and some usb ports. -Any ideas???? I'm open to any new ideas. I'm trying to do something different with each motorized item.
Rather than motorize the panel they are mounted to, you could motorize the panel you are going to use to hide it. Maybe have it slide in like a solid door garage, where they lift up and then slide in.
hmmmmm. Interesting. -that gives me some ideas...
Fantastic work so far mate, when all the servos are working it will look great.
We need an update... Im diein here.......
Looks good so far
-danthegeek
I got some more done tonight. I'll post an update tomorrow when I'm at work. It takes too long for me to upload the pictures from home and its pretty late.
haven't been following this as much as i should but +rep for keeping this thing going, oh and for the AWESOME work your doing!
Thanks Spawn,
Sorry its been taking so long for an update. My Chron's flared up and I haven't been feeling well. But after another Cat scan and $80 in meds, I'm starting to feel better.... That is untill the next flare up.
So as promised, here is an update.
I measured and drilled 4 holes and mounted some stud in the back side of the drive rack. They are kind of hard to pick out in the picture but if you look close, you can see them.
These studs are to mount the servo controller.
I came up with an idea for how to motorize the temperature monitor, USB ports, Reset switch, SD Media card reader etc. -Basically, I wanted a panel that would move and be replaced with an identical panel only with the stuff mounted to it. I thought about haveing doors open, then pull back and have the panel exposed, or move forward, or whatever. Then I just decided to have a triangular panel rotate around that had the same size. So I started with 2 Equilateral Triangular pieces.
Then I found the center and drilled some holes.
I mounted a servo horn, just like I did for the fan controller.
Then I had to remove a large section of the drive bay support to mount the servo. here it is in its location (un mounted).
I then made 2 panels and glued it together. This is one side.
This is the "Back" side. Its left open to mount the objects and for wireing.
Then I made some servo mounts.
And finally mounted it to the case.
Here it is with the panel attached.
I still have to make a mount for the other side to pivot on so it won't Flop around.
Here is an overall shot of everything in the case. FYI Its lying on the front of the case.
Thats all I got done last night. It was getting late so I decided to leave off there.
Later!
Mate you really know your stuff. Fantastic work so far. +rep
Looking AWESOME!
Looking cool... I can't wait to see how this all fits together and works when it's finished... so, is acrylic nice to work with? (Someone posted thread about it but I'm a little slow atm, system resources are being used by other functions. Allocate more memory to desired task or upgrade your RAM to continue...)
Wow... This is looking freaking cool.
/me subscribes, then wonders why he didn't subscribe before. :D
+reppage
Sweet! Thats all I have to say.
Haha and that's all you need to say lol.
