Project: [Storm] - 120508 - Pt.1

[thechoozen]

thanks a lot guys!!!

In the last couple of days we´re working on the PSU....after we test installed it, we wasn´t happy to see that there is not much room between the water reservoir and the PSU....

so we thought why not put the PSU half outside of the case half inside....
therefore we made a bigger Cutout then the Standard PSU Cutout...so that the PSU can now be moved through the hole .....

after that we needed a new mounting for our PSU, so we did a little bit recycling and reused the parts we cutted out from the side panels. We cutted them in shape and bend some 90° Angles out of it....they are screwed to the mainframe of the case....

then we bended some alloy stripes in a U-Shape so that we can attach them to the PSU and the 90° angles we already attached to the cage.....

as next we´re going to finish the new PSU mounting and then we want to start the building process of the opening mechanism for the lower sidepanels.....

[thechoozen]

thank you m8´s!!!!

today we integrate another power plug and a On/Off Switch in the backside of the case.....

after that we cutted the first 3 parts of the sidepanel mechanism....

i think tomorrow we´re going to concentrate on the opening/closing mechanism so that we can show you how this will work....

[thechoozen]

thanks a lot!!!

like i promised we started the building process of the sidepanel opening mechanism.....

then we attached the first parts to the case...

...just to see where we have to make the next cuts....so that the sidepanel can be opened completely

[thechoozen]

thanks a lot guys!!!

in the last days we were busy on planning another gimmick we want to place inside the front.....

therefore we made a rectangle hole inside the backside of the front....inside the hole we want to mount a small webcam....

then we quick draw on the otherside....

and put on a bit more bondo....

and we cutted the raw video material we shooted up to now....so here are the first 2 parts of the video worklog....:clap::clap:

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[thechoozen]

thank you all!

in the last days we made some progress on the Holder for the Water Reservoir...

at first we bended the 2 Plexi Holders for the rez into a 90° angle

then we drill out some plexi circles....

and cutted them into 2 halfs

.......at least we drilled 3 holes in all of them......then we put 3 plexi rods through the half circles so that we got an element which will be placed between the bended Plexi Holders for the rez....

[DonT-FeaR]

looking cool that think is nice

[The boy 4rm oz]

Nice res holders, looking great.

[thechoozen]

thanks a lot guys!!!

a small update:

yesterday we finished the rez holder....

then we made a test run with the first side panel.....as next we will stabilize the whole movement with the rest of the mechanism....

[jdbnsn]

your header is in place. Let me know if the title needs changed.

[thechoozen]

Thank you very much jdbnsn!!!! i really like it and i don´t think that changes were needed (i think the title will stay)....

in the last couple of days i did a little bit of engraving...not for this project....but its also nice....

on this project we also did some progress....

we add the next pieces to the front...this time we covered the optical drives so that they will be integrated in the final front....

then we cutted out the next parts which will be used to finish the lower part of the front....

then we also glued the pre cutted plexi rods together, sanded and polished both pieces ...they will later be used on the outer body of this mod

then we cut out the marked square in the upper part of the front....

inside this hole we will place a webcam which will film the inside of an plexisheet which will cover the complete hole....

This complete thing will be used as a next gen Input device....you can find more informations about it here

and i have shot a small desktop video of the first test run so that you can see it actually works....(and i really have not done the fine tuning....)

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