Blast Door LCD Screen Mod Jr.

[Nerdy]

UPDATE TIME!!!







The door is painted, the box is painted (at least the parts that will be seen from outside the case), and the actuator is ready to go. So I put this puppy together for yet another demonstration.


I will let the pictures do the talking from here:

VIDEO:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...34076735004769


The door seems a little sluggish when raising only because I'm using a 9-volt battery. This is not the case with the 12v molex power running to it.


So then I did a test fit into the case.



She fits perfectly!

Another video of it inside the case:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...35400844484294


We've shifted away from using the variable speed POT boards that we bought. We discovered our builds like a sudden jolt of electricity to get the actuator to start moving from a standstill, and that, by the time you raise the POT up to full power, the actuator has already reached the end of its travel. So, I guess we'll have to find another use for the POTs in some other project.

Instead, we're going to be using a double-pole double-throw momentary rocker switch to change the directions. There will be a limiter switch at the rear of the box to make sure the actuator stops completely when it's ended its travel. There won't be one up front because whoever is operating the door should be able to see when to release the switch.


Closeup of the rocker switch we're using:

Thanks to dad for wiring this sucker up for me!


No hints on where we're mounting this switch yet, but until we show its final mounting place, consider this project very much still in progress

[gaz_the_chav]

Wow looking very good! I wanna make one now mind you alot of people have said that and not gone as far as you!

Good work that lad!

-gaz

[chaksq]

Awsome man. I still say you could sell those.

[Nerdy]

Thanks! If it weren't for the tedious and time consuming cutting of the styrene and the lack of parts, I might could lol.

[jdbnsn]

That is so amazing, re-designed and everything. Very inspiring work my friend, and I love the paint-job. I'll post links to your vids on the front page article I did for you. You tha man!

Jon

[Eclecticos]

You are the "Mannnn" Even put it in the NZXT Guardian

Excellent! +Rep

[Nerdy]

You are the "Mannnn" Even put it in the NZXT Guardian

Excellent! +Rep

Actually it's a NZXT Nemesis Elite


Thanks for the feedback guys, I'm glad you like it!

[DaveW]

Holy crap. Nice. Can't wait to see what you have planned for the rest of the case.

-Dave

[Nerdy]

What's in store for the rest of the case? Well...I can't tell you quite yet.... It's a secret




I can, however, show you the first steps to what we're doing next. As with the blast door, I will be drawing and designing what we do next in Photoshop. And what better way to start than to draw the case to exact measurement




With the blast door, I just jotted down a few measurements with descriptions beside them and used that to put together the design in Photoshop.




This time around, there were too many measurements to keep track of in a notepad, so I drew a mockup of the case:

That one semester of drafting class in high school finally paid off





After many hard hours of work, I completed drawing of the side view of the case in Photoshop, exactly to scale and incredibly accurate:

Of course the image I'm posting here is scaled down to fit, but the full sized image is 2410 x 2410 pixels in size, or 33.5in x 33.5in lol.


For comparison, here is the real thing (a pic from some review site):

For kicks, here's the Photoshop blast door box drawing inside the Photoshop case drawing:

Gonna have to find someone with a plotter to print this sucker out...

[rendermandan]

you can print things like that at Kinkos.