Must have been a good vacation! Got all rested up and came back to do all this. Excellent.
john
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Must have been a good vacation! Got all rested up and came back to do all this. Excellent.
john
looks incredible!
wow still coming out swinging, those panels look awesome, cant wait to see them all installed.
Looking good!
Zip ties, lots of zip ties ;) lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by rendermandan
You have made a lot of progree. The accents are coming allong beautifully, awesome work dude. +rep
yeha thinkk ill through in a rep for ya to... excellent
Really nice plexi cuts man, looks great.
Definitely plus rep. Looks great I don't know if I could ever do something from scratch.
Thanks you guys.
I've spend a little time working on the fan controller.
Here is a screen shot of the board design. If everything looks ok, I'm going to order it tomorrow. :)
You can see there are 6 fan headers that will be windows controlled.
2 fan headers that are not controlled but will report the rpms. (i'm thinking about adding a jumper to change them from 12v to 5v options). -Edit: Done!
These 2 headers can also be used for Water pump rpms.
This particular board also has my servo controller and power led controller on it. So there are headers for the servo, LED and a 6v power input that comes from a transformer plugged into a power strip.
Then there is a typical PSU Molex connector. and a USB to serial converter.
I've ordered all the parts and if the board gets ordered tomorrow, I shoudl have it by the end of next week. (Hopefully!)
Here is the latest version of the software by the way.
I still have some programming to do once I get the fan controller built.
nice work :D
Very nice work on the circuit board and the GUI, an amazing result. +rep
that GUI made me....GUI
ive been pretty silent through this project, but have been watching closely, this is one amazing case dan mad props to you
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Originally Posted by b4i7
dan if you were a major league baseball player you could totally hit a 600' ft home run and hit a car in the parking lot :). awesome job!
Are you accusing him of using performance enhancing drugs?:hurt:Quote:
Originally Posted by EspoNation
You are not the only one :) I feel like BWW today. Get the hint?Quote:
I still have some programming to do once I get the fan controller built.
Man, we just went there yesterday. LOL How about next week?Quote:
Originally Posted by custom_electronics_man
I get the hint though. :)
-I have not "Enhanced" !!! by the way, Who's your daddy?Quote:
Originally Posted by Snowman
-Ok guys, The Custom PCB has been ordered, I should have it next Wednesday!
Chinese food sounds better ahahaha...
wow thats smart... lol i like it
lol. no enhancement neccesary!
@rendermandan: cant wait to see this fan controller in action!
Got an email yesterday that said they shipped the pcb boards. They should be here tomorrow!.
The parts for it arrived too. (USB to Serial, headers, and some IC Blocks).
I also did some more work on the plexi too. More of the same stuff, so I didn't bother posting any pics. Sorry.
:( letting us down man!!!! lol jk
That's good news mate. I can't wait to see the PCBs.
Ok Man,
Tomorrow is now Today! Post the pics already!!!:bunny::bunny:
So is the suspense killing you guys. Muahhaaaahhhaa (evil laugh). :)
Ok, enough playing. Here's the update.
I worked on finishing installing the red plexi pieces. I had to glue some painted modders mesh to the back side of the pieces first.
Here is the glue and accelerator I used.
This is basically the back of one of the piece. You can see all the holes I had to drill (almost 400 of them!) so the pieces fit over the top of the red led light strips. You can also see the mesh glued into a channel in the back of the plexi.
So basically here is one of the pieces with the mesh glued on.
I then cut it to length and beveled the ends so they pieces fit together.
I also glued the clear plexi windows to the rings that go around the hard drive windows.
So here is the finished red plexi.
And here it is with the leds on.
Kinda bright?
Well keep in mind there is a layer of black plexi that goes over the top of all the red plexi. I also did not polish the sides of the red plexi on purpose. This diffuses the light better.
Now that the red plexi is done. I can start to polish all that black plexi.
In fact, here are all the pieces.
I picked up some different grades of sand paper.
And this polishing kit.
But I found the polishing wheels to be too big, so while I was in Florida at a flee market. I found these dremel polishing wheels for 50 cents a piece.
I started with one straight piece to get the feel for how much work it will be.
Not too bad.
Here is a piece polished next to an unpolished piece.
Thats the only piece I got done before the Custom PCB board came.
And here it is. Front side.
Back side.
If you look closely, you can see I even put a title on it. I also put Gediminas' and my name on it in another spot, but it came out a little too small to read.
Now, I know what your thinking. It doesn't look like a pcb board. -Well, it is the same board as all other electronics, it just doesn't have the green solder mask and white silk screen printing on it. -To add those two layers, almost tripled the price. I got three of these boards for around $60 shipped. Not too bad.
Here are all the parts waiting to be soldered on.
I started with the headers.
Then added the Molex connector.
Then I installed the voltage reguator and IC sockets and a capacitor.
Next was the resistors.
Some Transistors.
and finally, the fan headers and USB to serial connector.
All finished. :)
You may notice that there is missing IC chip. Well, I'm waiting on Gediminas to finish programming the chip first so I can't test the fan controlls just yet.
I was able to test the led power light and servo controller, and they work Perfect!
Well, thats a pretty big update for now. I'm so close to being done!!!
Later,
Looks nice. The case and controller.
Dude the case looks absolutely fanastimagorical, its unfathomably beautfiul, its so ultra cool it deserves its own bulletproof case to fit around it!
I liek! +rep!
I think that case is almost bulletproof on its own.
Plexi work is amazing as always mate. The fan controllers turned out very well, shame they aren't black though lol. I know they won't be seen but you gotta go with the theme haha.
looks really really really ( 1800 billion billion times) awsome
:stupid: incredible! :bowdown:
Thanks you guys!
Yeah, I know it sucks being kinda yellowish. Not sure If I could paint it and still make it look good.Quote:
Originally Posted by The boy 4rm oz
Most of the pcb mfr's. offer the green solder mask, but its alot more money. I don't know how much more it would be to do black too.
Here is the company I went with for the board.
http://www.expresspcb.com/
The reason I used them is they offered their "Mini Board" service.
I used their free software to design it. -As long as it fits within the maximum size limit. they produced 3 identical boards for $51 plus shipping.
They also produce and ship it very fast. Most other companies your looking at a longer turn around time.
If I wanted to do the solder mask and screen print. the price jumped from $60 to $250. SoI chose not to do it. :)
If we end up making some of these to sell. we will order them masked. but for now the prototype is fine.
looks astunishing dude (spelled?)
great work on that case!
wow dan. you always keep the good stuff coming. may i ask what you do for a living? you seem to have a very good knowledge of assembling PCB's. Electronics maybe? haha. great work!
The green solder mask is more or less green high temp lacquer.
So If you take one of your "extra" boards and mask off the solder pads, and hit the whole thing with black engine or brake caliber paint you should have the same thing... just cheaper. (make sure the paint is non-conductive... some High temp paints have higher metal content and can be mildly conductive)
By the way this rig is Great! Love all the lights! (the fact that it's 90% Carbon Fiber just adds to the WOW!! factor!)
Keep up the good work.
(by the way, I've used straight spray paint on the High Voltage parts of custom PCB's in the past after the parts were stuffed... with good results! I didn't get shocked by 120Vac, and it looked good :) )
:eek: :bowdown: words can not describe who great this is +REP
I'll make sure I bookmark that link d\Dan, could be useful ;), thanks.
it's just enough for Dan to accidentally have someone at work with that knowladge :glasses:Quote:
Originally Posted by EspoNation
Hey Dan, I just had an idea. I was thinking, if you frosted all the exposed edges of the red plexi you would get a more uniform, softer, less in your face glow than the naked edges. Just a thought.
