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    Resident 100HP water-cannon operator SXRguyinMA's Avatar
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    well I got a few goodies in for this build. I got 40 5mm RGB LED's, and some goodies from Adafruit to use with the special Arduino project. I was hoping UPS was going to drop off a nice shiny new case, but alas, nothing yet

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    well the nice fedex man dropped off a shiny new Tempest EVO case today

    expect some kind of an update after the weekend!

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    alright I've got some goodies comin from Performance-PC's, and I've done some sketchup work. stay tuned

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    alright small-ish update time

    look at this pristine puppy I get to dismantle and mod


    wow top panel off already? oh well


    fans removed. These fans are nice because they have 5mm holes in them for LEDs already, so all I need to do is wire up 4 RGB LEDs in each, cut off the 4-pin molex's and sleeve the remaining 3-pin cables and I'm good to go! I'm going to use a y-splitter that x88x picked up for me @ Micro Center so I can hook both of these fans to one channel in my fan controller


    at this point is where the Arduino comes in


    I spent some quality time with SketchUp, a tape measure, micrometer, and the case and came up with this. The top panel is 100% to scale of the case. The white is the planned expansion, the Arduino model I got online, and the servo model I made myself. You can see how everything will fit in.










    The I/O portion in the top part isn't how it's going to look in the end, I just put the parts in there to give a better feel for the layout.

    I also took the blue LEDs out of the front panel (the two that light up the stripes along the front side of the case). I plan on replacing these with 5mm RGB ones as well, but the ones that came out were 3mm ones, so I'm going to see what I need to do to make them fit.

    How the side panel fan and two front fans on this case have 3mm blue LEDs in them. They're set up strange though, with plastic parts holding in the LEDs from the top of the fans. I'm going to see what I can do to keep these fans, as they fit with the rest of the fans in this case. Otherwise I'll have to transfer the 3 clear 120mm ones from my Armor case into this case.

    That's it for now. Hopefully I'll get some stuff done soon!

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    ok I'll be picking up some styrene on Thursday, and it will be delivered straight to the water jet cutter

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    looks like a bit more than changing the fans. but it's still pretty sweet

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    Oooh, I can has temperature-controlled louvers? Very nice!
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    Default Re: Project: Tempest SXR

    I just got one thing to say...

    FEATURED!

    nuff said!

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    Congrats!!!

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    Well done on getting featured . Can't wait to see the louvers working.


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