Project: Alien Hospital

[Jeroenotje]

Nice desk mod . Can't wait to see more of it.

The reason for not posting it anywhere els is is that is saves me a lot of time, no useless discussions about sponsors, n00b questions, and last but not least: People get bored in Holland when following a worklog for 2 years or so.
So that's why it's on TBCS Once i've made a lot of progress i'll post it somewhere else.

You're so damn right about that. Hm, might going to copy my worklog to this place to . Don't know why I didn't thought of that before... What do you guys think?

[Bucko]

Nice shelf you have there with the LEDs. Looks great!

What do you guys think?

I think you should do it and stop hijacking _Ferry's worklog.

[_ferry_]

Tools are done

Building time of the syringe: 7,5 hours.

Next:

Something like this.

[ollithemagicbum]

that's cool.

[Spacehonkey]

Very cool +Rep

[tribaloverkill]

Dude you doing a friggin great job man. Damn.

[D1337]

love the syringe, i skipped to the last page and thought you bought it.
Till i saw the work time =o

[jdbnsn]

I thought of some other ideas you may be interested in...


Bone Saw

Rotory Bone saw

Maybe you could have an x-ray somewhere...

Op room lighting?

[DaveW]

Great Ideas, Jon...those would really complete the look! But with all the metalwork on the alien, maybe some metalworking tools too? Off the top of my head, maybe Jon could think of a way to make a welder look like a surgical tool?

I love this project. Totally original.

-Dave

[_ferry_]

Hey, thanks for the ideas!

The only one which i already thougt of was the lights. More into a shape like this:

With a adjustable arm made of plastic/metal. As light source a 1watt led with a few smaller leds surrounding.

Metal-working tools: yes, some of these:

In a nice modern alien-look CNC style. Very usefull since his bones are connected with bolts and nuts.



Anyway, i've got a new update. I wasn't in the mood of the intensive work to create another instrument, so i started with modding the monitor.
The idea is, that once i have a little start i can think of some ideas to work out on it. Drawnings doesn't always give you all the ideas you could really use, while modding you create things and solutions you'd never thought about.

Let's start with some plastic sheet which i grabbed out of the garbage @ work and a 12" trouchscreen.

And after some cutting, straighten the edges and gluing them together we have this.

Hmm, a fingerprint reader, usefull

Before mounting the fingerprint reader i roughly cut the hole for the display. After that i was able to determinate the exact size and position of the display and his cutout.

And the rear side. The base will be mounted on this part, but i'm still thinking about the design of it. And maybe i should add another instrument beneath the monitor, i have the space anyway. A defibrillator would be cool

A cutout with some mesh and styrene. The grey case is just rough. All the details like this will be done with styrene.

A fan in a monitor? Yes, i don't know if i need it, but you would hardly hear him at 5volt, and there will be more electronics (which produce heat) in the case compared to the original one. Just to be sure

back to the reader, still recognize him? I had to remove a lot of material to be able to fit it inside. There was hardly a way to fit it with screws so i went to the dremel and took the click-n-hold part apart of the rest of his casing.

After cutting a very precisious hole (less than mm was enough to create a gap between finger print reader and the case) i was able to fit the PCB.

And this is how it looks at the front. There is plenty of space left for buttons, led's, connectors etc.

See I kept the shape exactly the same as the airhole at the rear, with those 45degree corners. (There was no other way to cut him out either hehe)