The Machine

[jdbnsn]

I do believe that this is feature material.

[|NQ|Squelsh]

I do believe that this is feature material.

I think the same. +REP so far. Looking forward for more translated updates!

[Frenkie]

I think the same. +REP so far. Looking forward for more translated updates!

Oh my, I DO love your Orb ! You're my inspiration !


A bright sunny day in Holland, lets paint !

I covered the three main parts with black Hammerite, then used a lighter shade to bring the accents back from the black depths....

Hard to judge with the sun dropping fast


I had to modify the rear a bit, the radiator had to move a tad to the left, coz I couldnt get my monitorcable in the videocard When THAT cable fitted, I couldnt get the powercable plugged in ! Solution was to use a hooked powersupply cable

Tied cables together and worked the rest of the cables underneath the mainboard.

Nice and tidy.

Unfortunatly, on the other side, the powersupply cables.
Seems wireless power isnt invented yet ?

Little joke, I found an old lens that fitted perrrrrrrrfectly into one of the skull eye sockets. Held it so you see the new Sapphire X1800 XL

Fixing lots of small things; Thanx to XFX I have a working cardreader again. The skull-bolts didnt work out, I cut of the thread from them, drilled holes in the heads and threaded it again. Three UV LEDS underneath the transparant water reservoir fixed. Here are some pictures for a more total look. I used flash on and off to show you the difference.

Mounted the arms loosely for the pictures.

Tried to make a picture in the dark, but my camera doesnt agree with me on this point.

[jdbnsn]

Round of applause!

[FrooP]

[The boy 4rm oz]

Very very very awesome work. +rep

EDIT: I need to spread some rep around first buddy

[|NQ|Squelsh]

Holy s**t! Thats became a really freaky case! Nice work.
I love the grippers / arms. That thing could really hover around in DOOM oder Quake.

[Frenkie]

Holy s**t! Thats became a really freaky case! Nice work.
I love the grippers / arms. That thing could really hover around in DOOM oder Quake.

Thanx Squelsh, that was what I was aiming for

And here the last of the worklog for your entertainment


Just came back from the TIMES lanparty, where I won first place with this mod

( and its not finished yet ). I had such a good time, specially with the interaction from the publik;
Most people who stumbled onto my case responded with "WTF!?"........... Hahahahahahahahahaha
Second thing a lot of people asked me "Do those arms move ?"
There were just too much people who asked me that, I cannot ignore that. So ! Somehow, I need to get movement into the arms or hands.
For myself I see a lot of small things that need fixing/upgrading, but I only have two hands and way too little time.

One of the smaller items I was not satisfied with, was the turbulence inside the water reservoir.

By means of a small plastic tube, I redirected the waterstream, so now it runs evenly with the curve of the reservoirhousing.

By doing so, I created a small vortex in the reservoir.

I started looking around for small motors, and in the immense pile of junk I have at home, I found a perfect motor with a reduction gear on it.

Even the size was good, and within hours I had the motor coupled to one of the arms/hands.

After some searching I found a second motor, only without a reducing gearbox.

However, this one was a lot smaller, it even fitted inside the excisting hand on the other arm. On that axel I made a smaller version of the three knife-fingers, now it looked like a blender !

And here are they both.

Wanna shake hands ?

On popular request I made two small movies where you can see them move. IRL it shows better, but it will have to do.....

http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/f...Machine235.MOV

http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/f...Machine236.MOV

And here I conclude my worklog for The Machine, for now.
Hope you enjoyed the pictures as much as I enjoyed making this mod.

next mod I will translate is my BFG mod.

greetings from Frenkie

[Drum Thumper]

First off, wow, this is a very interesting build!

Secondly:

That made me laugh. Nearly every picture that your precision measuring equipment is in is showing 1337. Nice touch!

[Frenkie]

First off, wow, this is a very interesting build!

Secondly:

That made me laugh. Nearly every picture that your precision measuring equipment is in is showing 1337. Nice touch!

Hehehe, you're one of few who noticed it. +1 for you