How Do I make the Blast door from the Doom 3 project ?

[Wannabeamodder]

MACH your Idea is something I may try it looks like it could work.
But I may try the pushbutton pot too.

DaveW I know absolutely nothing about PIC's (except photo's that is)

But would like to learn if it's not too difficult the only programing I do is VB and VBA and I am an amateur at that.
I will research it and get back to you by the way thanks for the offer to help.

Thanks guys for the help I just wish I could think of a way to mod the rest of my case but when I think about it all I get is nuttin! dang it nuttin! you guys are so creative I envy you all!

Charles

[isunktheship]

When the door closes it sounds like it hits down hard, will you add some sort of rubber/padding at the bottom of where the door sits?

...This is a really minor thing, yay noise reduction!

[Wannabeamodder]

That's one of the idea's I am working on to solve that but I am also waiting to see how my son's build of the blast door turns out he is using a radicaly differant actuator and if it works better I may switch to his design. But if I can solve the ker-thunk I will stick with the one I built.
Part of the problem is the difficulty to control the motor speed with the bi-directional dc motor controler. You have to make very fine adjustments to the pot in order to slow the door down and it is difficult! I think it has to do with the motor having too much resistance and also running out of travel just as you get the speed right.

Thanks for your interest If you are planning on making one of these check out my sons build in the works in progress section Blast door Jr.

Charles

[Crimson Sky]

Thanks guys for the help I just wish I could think of a way to mod the rest of my case but when I think about it all I get is nuttin!

Charles

Since it's a garage/industrial type door, why not a NASCAR/racing/Monster Garage type theme?

[Wannabeamodder]

That's some good Idea's you have there Crimson thanks.

Charles

[Tale Gunner]

You and Crimson have some really great skills. Im really impressed (including your son) with your work. My son is just a tad to young to have him in the workshop but he is intrested in woodworking so there is hope on the horizon.

[Wannabeamodder]

Wow thanks for the nice comments from me and my son.
But really Crimson is the man around here a true inspiration to all of us!
If you are new to the forum check out his mods here
http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/f...ead.php?t=6740
and you will see what I mean.

Charles

[Tale Gunner]

Wow thanks for the nice comments from me and my son.
But really Crimson is the man around here a true inspiration to all of us!
If you are new to the forum check out his mods here
http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/f...ead.php?t=6740
and you will see what I mean.

Charles

No Im not new Crimson has been watching me build my Cherry wood case.
http://thebestcasescenario.com/forum...ead.php?t=6712

[Wannabeamodder]

Well I almost have everything to start assembling the two systems!
Here is an updated list of purchased hardware.

The spec's for the systems are as follows everything listed I have purchased two of (the ones with * have yet to be purchased).

NZXT Nemisis elite case (Silver)
Thermaltake Toughpower 700w modular power supply
MSI K9A PLatinum Socket AM2 Radeon Xpress 3200 motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ 2.6ghz
Samsung DVDRW/DVD+-R writer with Lightscribe
52 in one media card reader
Logitech mx518 optical gaming mouse
Saitek Eclipse II Illuminated Keyboard
8 GB DDR2 PC6400 ram (Kingston HyperX) (4 gigs per system)

Was going to go with the ATI R600 aka HD2900XT but with all the heating issues and power consumption we decided to not use it.
ATI R600 video card (whenever it finally comes out! XP)*

Instead we went with these ( One per system)
MSI RX8800 Ultra ( Factory Overclocked )
SATAII HDDs
2 seagate barracuda 160 gig (1 per system)
2 seagate barracuda 400 gig (1 per sytsem )
Windows Vista Ultimate *

The two blast doors are nearing completion so we should be able to start assembling the systems next weekend pics will be posted them.

Thanks
Charles

[Tale Gunner]

Well I almost have everything to start assembling the two systems!
Here is an updated list of purchased hardware.

The spec's for the systems are as follows everything listed I have purchased two of (the ones with * have yet to be purchased).

NZXT Nemisis elite case (Silver)
Thermaltake Toughpower 700w modular power supply
MSI K9A PLatinum Socket AM2 Radeon Xpress 3200 motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ 2.6ghz
Samsung DVDRW/DVD+-R writer with Lightscribe
52 in one media card reader
Logitech mx518 optical gaming mouse
Saitek Eclipse II Illuminated Keyboard
8 GB DDR2 PC6400 ram (Kingston HyperX) (4 gigs per system)

Was going to go with the ATI R600 aka HD2900XT but with all the heating issues and power consumption we decided to not use it.
ATI R600 video card (whenever it finally comes out! XP)*

Instead we went with these ( One per system)
MSI RX8800 Ultra ( Factory Overclocked )
SATAII HDDs
2 seagate barracuda 160 gig (1 per system)
2 seagate barracuda 400 gig (1 per sytsem )
Windows Vista Ultimate *

The two blast doors are nearing completion so we should be able to start assembling the systems next weekend pics will be posted them.

Thanks
Charles

Looks like a great system. I have the same CPU but I have 2 PNY 8800 GTX video cards with the baracuda drives (SATA). I went with the Asus mother board M2N32 SLI deluxe. Several years ago MSI and Abit went through a bout with bad caps and I had one of those boards. They fixed it free of charge but it took 4 weeks to get my system back. So I started going with Asus just because of that. My power supply is a 1000 watt Emermax Galaxy PS. I love Thermaltake products but at the time they did not have anything over 850 Watts (now that has changed). Good Luck looking foward to seeing the final pics on your system.