Evolutionary

no the cable thing like the bit with the 4 screws

the last pic

Great work Franklin. I like how you have chosen to incorporate the sleeved cables in the mod. I hate how people hide them all away. Mods can look neat with some cables too.

Haven't had much time to work on this mod lately :(
But that doesn't mean there is no progress. Been working on the leds that will light up the windows. First I needed to make something to mount the leds. I took some acrylic sheets, one 5mm. and one 3mm. plate, glued these together and made small pieces of it. Drilled a 5mm. hole in every piece and glued all these pieces onto the frosted ring.This is the result.

I needed quite a lot of these acrylic pieces because I have got four windows.
One of the rings completed and ready for the leds.

A led in every acrylic piece and connecting the wires.

Time to test the leds.

The endresult will be very different of course. The glass fiber sidepanels will be painted black so you won't see the strange "dots" of light anymore.

I also received all my watercooling stuff. Again changed the original plans, will not watercool the harddisks, these are in a seperate compartment of the case anyway. I will watercool the CPU, GPU ( full cover block) the mosfets and the North and Southbridge. All EKwaterblocks except the CPU block, that's a D-tek Fuzion v2 block.

this things incredible :bowdown:

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this things incredible :bowdown:

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I agree, very nice effect.

agreed.... lol

lights looks cool....

Thanks guys, it's always nice to here people like what you are doing. I would lie if I told you I didn't care about other peoples opinions.
No update today, but I wonna show you my new tool :banana:

I don't think I will use it much for this casebuild, because I will need to learn a lot before I can use it.

sexy tool :banana:

where did u get it from?

I was looking for information about CNC mills for quite some time and I discovered a Dutch cnc forum http://cnczone.nl
They helped me a bit and showed me where to look for more information. I wanted to buy a smaller one, but then I saw this one in the for sale forum on cnczone. It is a High-Z S-720/T
http://www.cnc-step.com/html/high-z_...smaschine.html
Almost everything was included, only need to look for some CAD software like autocad. I can also use some free CAD programs for the time being.

Sweeet CNC Machine :up:

Damn lucky you, I want a CNC lol.

wow...
so cool
mind if i ask what it set you back in aussie dollar?

Well they are usually around 1000Euro (the ones I have seen anyway). You do the math lol.

why do you think i asked for it in aus dollar lol i hate maths


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1800 bucks... :( i cant afford that

You can get cheaper ones but they would still be 1000+.

time to get a job i reckon... lol

But you won't start projects like that cube on bit-tech i hope ;) That one was completely cnc, and was great in the beginning, but awful in the end. Complete overkill.
I rather see your handmade work (with a CNC precision ;) )

It was pretty expensive, but it is a pretty big machine, about 1.1 meter x 0.75 meter. The only thing I will need now is something like Autocad. Can use Corel Draw for text and simple parts.
I hope to use this machine for parts I can't make by hand. It will give me so much new possibilities. I had ideas about all kinds of parts that I could not make by hand, simply because they needed to be so precise.

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It was pretty expensive, but it is a pretty big machine, about 1.1 meter x 0.75 meter. The only thing I will need now is something like Autocad. Can use Corel Draw for text and simple parts.
I hope to use this machine for parts I can't make by hand. It will give me so much new possibilities. I had ideas about all kinds of parts that I could not make by hand, simply because they needed to be so precise.

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Find a friend that can do the AutoCad and knock it out for you. Then use him when you need the work done fast :)

I can do the cad for you, As long as we come to an agreement when I need some parts cut out :banana:

lol yeah...

i got a sweet new piece i wanna make for a mod but if i stuff it ip by like 1 mm its stuffed...

gunna try get it cut by laser or something....

still i love the machine


and i prefer to do things by hand and not with a machine

I can do Cad too, if you have any questions fire away. I design and draw schematics and wiring diagrams for my job.

Joe

if its actually getting hold of a copy of autocad thats the problem there are freeware options which would probably suffice for your needs.

I'm still reading all the manuals that came with the machine but I couldn't wait to try and mill a text into acrylic. Made a couple of different test pieces, before I milled the name Evolutionary into one of the windows.



And this is the result.

thats awesome! :up: +rep

I'm so jealous!!! It just goes to show your devotion to this art. +rep

Awesome machine, and that text is awesome.

:o

Very nice font mate, very effective. It goes very well with the mod. Turned out very well for a test piece. I would hate to see what you can produce once you have mastered it lol.

No comments ! Coool jobs +1

Thanks for all your comments.

It's been a while since I've posted an update. Been playing with my new toy, the cnc mill.
The black Tygon hose isn't as flexible as the normal transparant one. Needed something for tight bends and that's where the mill comes in.

These two parts can easily be removed. Just unscrew the three hex bolts.

And with the part in place.

A also made a part that will guide two hoses, that pass through a aluminium panel. Nice to practice milling a pocket. Made a pocket in an orange sheet of acrylic, two millimeters deep. The black acrylic fits into this pocket.

looks awesome! +rep

Dude that tubing guide looks fantastic. I wish I had access to a CNC lol.

Thanks guys and yes I just love that machine. When I came up with the name for this case I also remembered an image from school. Darwin and his evulotion theory, combined with the picture from a monkey that starts to walk upright and finishes with a man. Now it is possible to pick an image from the internet and engrave it into some plexi with the mill. It has to be something that fits into to theme and looks of the case, so I used the same color scheme as with the fanholders. Orange, black and white.

That is so cool! Classic image for the mod Franklin!

Just read this hole thing and all I can say is OMG. This thing is awesome.

Man Major +rep. The engraving looks like an LCD screen.

Love that tube guide. That machine opens a whole new dimension to you.

what kind of bit did you use to engrave that window?

I used an engraver's milling cutter.
http://www.vhf.de/cgi-bin/connect?se...es&targetId=64
The first one in the list.