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You got it. It's going to be a second monitor basically. I have to make a CSYNC circuit because my video card doesn't support it. Most ATI cards do but most nVidias don't. Csync is HSYNC and VSYNC bunched into one signal that this LCD reads. Very easy circuit to make.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cymae
couldnt run me through that roughly could you?
Small update. I only got like an hour or so of work done today. I was tired, it was hot,... just wasn't really in the mood.
Ok,... here I am trying to cover up where I F@#%ed up. I wasn't thinking. Very stupid mistake. Oh well it happens. It's a nice cover up though. I had plans to do this anyways so it all worked out. I'm goign to cut grooves here. You can see how I center punched several time to drill down the lines.
Another shot of the center punches. Notice the small grooves at the bottom. I F#$%ed up three to:) LOL. Looks cool though dont it?
Close up.
Just got down drilling.
All done. I filed out the grooves nice and smooth. When the time comes I will put some UV green behind the grooves and then lite it up. Should look cool. I will most like cut some more or just drill some holes to give a futuristic look to it.
Sorry:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Cymae
Update,... another small one. It's like I spent only an hour today either. This intricate work is time consuming! Lordy. Mr. Boddaker,... I have a dremel, why I didn't use it to make the grooves? There's a logical reason actually, it's,... I don't know. LOL. Seriously,... I don't know why I didn't use it to just cut the grooves. Well,... The short grooves couldn't be cut with the dremel. The diameter of the cutting disc is too large. By time the disc cuts through the aluminum, the groove would be to long. I for whatever reason found that drilling was easier? I dont know. I will most likely cut some more larger grooves. I will make sure that I use the dremel to cut them to see if it is easier,... which it most likely will be. Anyways,... moving on. I want you guyz to tell me what you think of this,... I like it. But it needs some more work. Both the panels I have been cutting the past two days are not done just to let you guyz know.
I'm cutting some more smaller grooves here in the other LED panel. This time I thought I would cut more then the other side to mix it up a bit.
All filed and done. Just needs some sanding.
Now,... seeing that the other side has the VFD. I thought I would somewhat even things out by adding a cool kind of window thing here on the other side. It's not really a window but is? You know? I mean it's not even centered with teh panel or sized evenly. It's like a window panel thing kinda like the ones in the Cube. you know the movie? Theres going to be a UV green panel behind it just like the grooves and whatever I cut into the panels. I think it looks nice. I have to even out the look though. I have to add some more triangles to the panels, maybe even some circles to smooth out all the hard square edges. I want it to look futuristic with looking to corny. Here I scrathed out the window and center punched.
Just got done jig sawing out the pattern.
All done.
Like I said,... It's not done. I have some more work to do to the panels to make them look more complete. I think I will actually have some more time to work on the puter tomorrow. Yea! Till then. This post was copied from gruntville so it may read weird. All my posts here will be copied from gruntville to save time. Thanks! Also,... I change the title for the very first thread to the new updated date. Check it to see whether iv'e updated or not.
you have mad skills. keep up the good work!
Thanks :D.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xbrid
Is this your first mod?
Yes. I cut out a window for my last case but thats about it :D. Do I have any past experience working with metal, acrylic, or doing anything like this whatsoever,... No. LOL. Seriously. You can do anything you set your mind too. If you REALLY want it,... you can have it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xbrid
A quick photochop provided by my lovely women. This shuold give a quick idea of what the UV it going to looking behind the panels. It does no justice though.
7 words : Watch out CrimsonSky. The competion is hereQuote:
Originally Posted by tribaloverkill
*looks around to check no angry :mad: men with dremels are coming*
But seriously, if all your mods are going to be this good, Crimson may have some serious competion here.
LOL. I really dont want to compete with anyone although a little bit a competition wouldnt hurt anyone. crimsonsky is good and I can only hope that one day I will be pumping out projects similar to his. Me though,... I'm not really into designing computers according to themes such as mars city. I like to make really nice computers:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Xbrid
competition? its just plain stupid. its like comparing two musicians or artists. they represent two different styles and their mods are not the same. While I like some of Paul's mods better than the others, it doesnt mean they compete with eachother or there is a winner. Its all personal tastes and calling this a competition is just not appropriate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xbrid
I like the fact that you like the like of the like like....but yeah, I like what I like and you like what you like so we like what we like so like we can like waht we all like. Its all about what we like, and how we like it. So we should like it....like it or not.
Did I say I like this mod?
I move that that post be deleted from the forums.
On the grounds that it was retarded.
9/34 of matthew's post was just the word "like". Thats more than a quarter.
So he's 9/34-th's retarded then.
that is not what i meant. i meant that TribalOverkill is a really good modder and CrimsonSky might have to move over and share the position of Best Modder? see what i mean? :?Quote:
Originally Posted by Frakk
Blackout is the mod...
Tribaloverkill is the man...
It never said Blackout........
:D thanks for pointing it out
WHOA! What is this! Dude,... there is really no competition here. I am moddin a personal computer to meet my criteria of what I think a computer should look like or atleast this computer:) Crimson modded his to what he wanted end of story:) We have to different styles of modding as one fo you already mentioned. But,... then again, I might be going to MML next year and if I was to submit my PC in the contest wouldnt that be competing :??
ok. let's just get back to the mod. ok?
Yea. I am going to try and do some work today. I have alot of stuf I have to do for mother first. If i can get it done fast enough I might have some time to do some more work on it.
Ok,... I got my pics uploaded!!! Here we go! This is for Jul-01-2005,...
Here are the 5.25 bay covers all finished. They are not really finshed becuase I have to add buttons and stuff to one and RCA jacks to the other. Plus they need a clear coat. They are done for now.
Making spacers to hold the panels upagainst the 5.25 bay.
Heres the LED cover mounted and ready to go.
Here's the VFD cover mounted and ready to go.
Another shot of the LED cover because I think it looks nice!
Ok,... here is for Jul-02-2005!
Here you have two pieces of aluminum that had one edge each filed straight. They were filed separately. Notice how flush they are when brought together? Isn't that cool?
Same two pieces with the edges separateed a bit.
Those two pieces of aluminum put side by side long ways to form what will be a front panel for my pc. The touching edges have yet to be filed straight.
Heres the top panel although not done in place. It's behind the case's aluminum because the tinted face panel will be ontop of the cases aluminum. Both panels will be bolted together sandwiching the case.
Here's a close up.
Those two pieces with those two touching edges filed straight.
Just got done jigsawing the bottom panel! LET ME SEE YOUR HORNS!!! YEA!
This is Sponge Bob Square Pants IN THE WAY OF MY CAMERA!! SPONGE BOB! MOVE!
THANK YOU! Moving on,... this is what sponge bob ever so happily covered with his yellow spongy body. It's the top and bottom panel just after jigsawing.
Close up.
FILED AND FITTED BABY! Yea! Look how sexy!!
Another close up!
Look how flush,... OH MY.
Plans for the LCD,...
CUT, FILED, AND FITTED!!! Damn thats hot! What a pain in the ARSE to get in though!!! It's like a chinese puzzle to get in!! It took me a good 20 minuted to figure how to get it in, seriously.
There really isn't anything else I can do right now except drill holes to mount them. I have to figure out what swtiches and stuff I will have on the panels first before I cut, obviously. I guess I'll make the front face panel then I guess? till then,... PEACE! OH! The DVD face plates are coming off. The DVD drives are actually going to be stealthed.
Some hungarian website called www.radikalmod.hu wrote an artical about my litte project here. It was my gurlfriend that actually found it. I was surprised when she told me she had found something about me over on some hungarian site. Anyways,... I requested a translated version of it and this is what the person had sent me,...
Here's the link,...
http://www.radikalmod.hu/index.php?p=2&st=0&y=142
Here's the email,...
Az els* amit el szeretnék mondani Tribaloverkill modjáról az, hogy még nincs teljesen készen. A srácra a GruntwillE egyik worklog fórumán bukkantunk, s egyet mindenképp meg kell el kell ismerni: a srác nagyon tehetséges!
>The first, what I want to say abaut Tribaloverkills mod, it`s, that it is not finished jet. We find the guy in one of the worklog forums on GruntwillE, and I must admit one thing: he is very talented!
Annak ellenére, hogy a komplett ház még nem készült el Tribal munkája igen érdekes! A worklog nagyon pontos, sok képpel ellátott. A srác egy Lian-Li házat alakít át, Danger Den vízh*téssel megspékelve. A radiátorokat pedig nem a ház oldalán, hanem a tetején helyezte el, méghozzá egy tetszet*s burkolatban.
>Even so, the complete case is not finished jet Tibal`s work is very interesting! The worklog is exact, with many pictures. He is modifying a Lian-Li case, whit a Danger Den water cooling. And the radiators are placed not on the side of the PC case, but on the top, in a well looking casing.
forrás: GruntvillE
A munkanapló bevezet minket munkájának minden mozzanatába, a sorokat olvasva tanúi lehetünk, hogyan módosul a terv az els* skicct*l a tökéletes végcélig. Mint már említettem a napló meglehet*sen pontos. Átfogó betekintést nyerünk a fémmegmunkálástól kezdve, a fúráson át, a végs* polírozásig minden egyes munkaállomásról. Tribal saját bevallása szerint ez els* nagyobb PC modja, és mindent a saját b*rén próbál ki. A fórum tetemes oldalszáma ellenére is (vagy pont az végett) ajánlott olvasmány mindenkinek akit csak egy kicsit is érdekel a számítógépe moddolása!
>The worklog guiding us in every aspect of his work, reading his words we can see how is the plan evolving, from the first drawing to the perfect endproduct. As I mentioned the log is very exact. We gain a general know-how how to do metalwork, drill, up to polishing, every state of the work. Tribal`s says on his own admission, that this is his firs grate PC mod, and he is try everything on his own. In the face of the huge number of pages (or accordingly for that) it is a referenced reading for everyone who is just a little interested in modding his/her PC.
forrás: GruntvillE
Na de most a már kész munkáról is ejtsünk pár szót! A burkolat maga egy alumínium doboz, mely minden oldalról sötétített plexivel van takarva. A „doboz” két sorosan kapcsolt radiátort rejt, melyeket 4 ventilátor h*t le. Az egész burkolat szintén alumíniumból készült lábakon áll, valamint fele olyan magas Al lábak tartják a fed*lapot is a radik felett. A leírásból kiderül, hogy burkolat belülr*l zöld UV fénnyel lesz megvilágítva, s így fogunk tudni gyönyörködni a radiátorok és ventilátorok együttesén.
>And now some words about the jet finished work! The casing is an aluminum case, that is covered from every side whit dark plexiglas. The “box” is hiding two serial attached radiators, they are cooled whit 4 ventilators. The whole case is standing on aluminum foots, and have as tolls foots holding the covering above the radis. From the writings comes out, that the case will have green UV inside, so we may enjoy the aggregation of the radis and ventis.
forrás: GruntvillE
Ez a mod jelenlegi állása. Viszont biztosra vesszem, hogy Tribal még sok meglepetéssel fog szolgálni számunkra. Azt hiszem mindannyiunk nevében mondhatom, hogy gratulálunk neki az eddigi teljesítményéhez, s várjuk az újabb fejleményeket!
>This is the current state of the mod. But I`m sure that Tribal will have many surprises for us. I think we can congratulate him for his performance, and we awaiting the new ones!
Kapcsolódó link:
A GruntvillE fórumján Tribaloverkill worklog-ja
:D
Ok,... today I figure something out that I have been ponder about for some time. I show you what I am talking about in a minute. I got 25 new pictures!!! I can't believe how far I have come with this project! Sadly I am almost done:( Almost:) I still have alot to do but from what I started with I feel like I am almost done. Anyways,... to the pics!
I have the sides case taped off here because I am getting ready to drill the mounting holes. Notice how this portion of the case has a ton of holes already there. If my marks dont land directly in the center of one of the holes that are already there this could be a problem when drilling. When I go to drill the drill bit is going to slide into the the hole instead of drilling where I want it to drill.
As you can see the marks are offset from the holes that are already there. I need a way to keep the drill bit on the mark as oppose to jumping into the holes.
This is what I came up with. I took a scrap piece of aluminum and drilled a hole using the very drill bit I will be using to drill the holes in there case. I clamp the scrap piece to the case so that the hole is directly over the mark. Then I drill. The scrap piece will keep the drill bit from jumping into the hole.
Directly over the hole,...
Drilled.
Heres one that looks neat. The mark was pretty much in one of the holes that was already there but slightly off.
Here another that doesnt look so good. That thats because the mark was directly in the center and when I drill though it cut away most the the metal around the hole. I ended up removing the remaining metal around the holes because it was thin and pointless.
Here I am making the very front panel out of the tinted acrylic. I have already at this point drilled the mounting holes in the aluminum front panels. I didnt take pictures because I forgot too! I'm only human!!! Anyways,... I am using the smae method I used to cut all of the other acrylic. It works so well. It only took me 10 minutes to cut this thing!
Aligning the router fence using a flat squared edge.
All done and prefectly sized.
Now,... this is what I was pondering for the longest time. I wanted to know how I would cut out the openings for the optical drives, the LCD, and possibly some switches and other stuff. I figured this out when I found out that I needed to cut a little notch out for the front USBs, audio jacks, whatever. Basically,... I wanted rounded corners. So, I cut this ruler up along with a strip of aluminum. The rulers are the fences and the two plain strips are the spacers. The pictures will tell all,...
I tape the fences to the spacers,...
Like so,...
Then I tape them to the acrylic,...
I make sure they are lined up with the lines perfectly!
It's stuck on there good.
I run it through the router and this is what I get!
How friggin cool is that!
It's perfect!
Fits perfectly!
Heres the front panel bolted down! Notcie the cases side panel is on too. See thow the bolts line up!
close up.
Another shot of the notch once bolted down.
See the aluminum panels on installed too. They are sandwiching the case.
Thats a good days work. Now,... It's almost time for the UV green. I am going to make smaller UV panels that will go ontop of the tinted acrylic in front of each optical drive, the LCD, and the switches. I was thinking that instead of putting the UV panels ontop of the tinted panel that I would put them behind it inbetween the aluminum and the tinted. I think that would look hot! I would need some way of fastening them though. I could either glue them to the tinted panel and how the glue does distort the look to much. I dont think you will be able to see the glued areas all the much seeing that its kinda dark. But you might when the UV is lit up. Or I could use the tiny bolts I got already that I plan on using to hold the UV panels up ontop of the tinted panel. It would be the same except the UV panels would be behind the tinted. So from the very front you would see the tinted panels and the larger bolts on the side holding up the tinted panel and the smaller bolts more in the middle of the tinted panel holding up the UV panels behind the tinted panel. Got me? Let me know what you think about that. BYE!
Not really an update but I did take a few pics of the optical drives in place with their faces off. I am trying to plan my next move.
Heh, it almost looks like a Powermac G5. Turning out really well so far, keep up the good work. :)
wow man!! thats kick @$$
:D.that looks mad!!
stop spamming!Quote:
Originally Posted by Xbrid
600th post! w00t
it is surely shaping up very nicely
lookin good, I like the mesh. Good luck with the mod.
So today I accomplished nothing! This is because I made a stupid mistake that cost me the tinted front panel. This means that I have to make a new one. This isnt really bad seeing that it really took me no time at all to make it. It's just that I could be doing something else as oppose to working on something that SHOULD be finished. Anyways,... I messed up when I went to cut ou tthe hole for the LCD. The width of the hole was to big. I was suppose to subtract these two values from the width of the optical drive trays but ended up only subtracting the one value. STUUUUUUUUUPID! Thats ok,... because just like the readiator housing,... the new panel will be better even though the panel came out pretty damn good despite the goof! I made a video too! I made a video of my drilling through the tinted acrylic! Exciting isnt it! The point of the video is to show you how a correctly ground drill bit cuts through acrylic. Enjoy.
Here I am marking where the trays will be coming through the tinted panel. I am not relying solely on the trays shadows. I messured where the trays are in comparison to the surface of the table. Im ussing the shadows to check the messurements. It was dead on.
Finished mapping out the trays,...
Finished mapping tou the whole thing,...
This is a correctly ground drill bit to be used to drill through acrylic. Notice the point. The point will keep the the drill bit from running around of the surface of the acrylic. Notice the flatsided cutting edge. This is so that the bit scrapes to cut and doesnt gouge.
Here's a video of my using this bit. Try this with a regular drill bit and you'll see what I mean. Notcie how fast I drill though without breaking the acrylic. I don't reccomend drilling that fast to finished holes. You want to go somewaht slow for a finished hole.
http://images.gruntville.com/casegal...ll/acrylic.wmv
Proof that your bit worked.
Nice holes.
Heres how I cut of the tray and LCD holes.
Got vacuum? LOL. I couldnt use the vacuum when using the router this time because I had to remove the fence to make these cuts. I s@#$ you not,... the shavings are flying right up in my face!!! All over the place! I was blowing them out my nose!!! So messy.
One tray finished.
All finished! Look how PRO!
DOH!!! DOH!!! DOH!!! DOH!!! DOH!!! DOH!!! DOH!!! DOH!!! DOH!!! DOH!!! DOH!!! DOH!!! DOH!!! DOH!!! DOH!!! DOH!!! To much width. I have to make this all over again. No big deal. I'll do that in the morning.
Here's the replacement pictures.
This is the old messed up tinted panel.
This is the new panel all mapped out ready to go.
The LCD now, is going to sit right up on the back of the tinted panel. So,... I want rounded edge for the LCD hole to make it look more "open". You know what I mean?
how do u press the buttons on the drives? they are covered from looking at the pictures.
CHEK DIS SHI OUT!
The new front panel! Perfect
LCD hole with rounded edges.
Rounded USB notch.
Panel over LCD. Look how that fits! Perfect. This exactly what I was trying to accomplish. I am going to put black electrical tape over the silver border of the LCD so it wont be visible.
Another shot.
