Project: Chobits

After nearly a year, lol, this project is back. I became too busy with other things (including a short film) last year, but now that's all complete.

It looked like it'd snowed indoors today after I cut up some polystyrene for an arm. It's just the rough shape, so it's a lot bigger than her final arm will be. Tomorrow I'll try to get some tubes to put inside her arm, which along with holding it all together, will also let me put a USB port on her thumb (for thumb drives, hehe, ok lame pun... sorry!).

Another massive gap between updates, but I've been doing quite a bit on it lately. I picked up some old computer parts which probably don't even work, but they're handy to build around. The plan is to build the largest area I'll need out of the polystyrene to begin with, then once all the computer parts have homes I'll stick the polystyrene together than shape it.

She's kneeling now to give me more height for the motherboard, and a hard drive will be screwed onto each one of those two wooden sides. One of them opens so I can slide a motherboard in. I hate to think what a mess the cables will be when I just slide the board in, lol.

Sadly the power switch can't be in it's "authentic" location because of this new design, I was a bit gutted about that :no: but having her legs sticking out was gonna be so hard to fit everything in, and this is my very first PC mod.

I hope to put in some path ways for the cables and such tomorrow, but here's some more photos for now :)

Interesting built, good luck with all that styro!



kris

That's a wicked idea. I like it. Good luck!

nice idea, i'm a fan of chobits personally (maybe not much but at least i've seen the series =P) it'd be cool to see chii holding a system :D good luck and keep up the good work ;)

Thanks guys!!

I tunneled out space for the cables today, and made a giant gaping hole in some of her head, which is above what this photo shows. The glue on the back here is because I cut too much off the sides (oops!!) when making a pull-out piece to be able to get to the cable areas.

Usually on my work days I can't get much done, but next week I aim to start shaping some of her :)

styrofoam heats up and melts at a low heat so ya might wanna look into that....


looks cool tho

Oh, I heard it was quite a high temperature before it melts, but yeah I'll test that now. Don't want the whole thing to melt :( I've popped some in the oven now.

Only the DVD drive and PSU unit are going to be touching actual polystyrene, but I could put pieces of wood between them if needed.

At 100 degrees the thin flakes curled up like potato chips, so far at 60 degrees nothing has happened though.

oh ok..... my friend made a usb housing out of it and it melted from the temp of a usb


hope it works well

Really? Eek! Perhaps there's different grades of the stuff, I'm not too sure.

This stuff was fine at 70 degrees, but at 80 it warped.

Hungry anyone? Get it while it's hot!