Project N0NAME

[dgrmkrp]

..continued.. after another day of work i have kinda finished the external body work.. now i have a real wide-body kit.. not only was the mouse bigger than my last, now it's 2~3mm bigger in all dimensions.. i lost some blood and my head hurts (hunger or rum may have something to do with this..), but i am a tad happy and maybe even proud of myself.. pics:

stuff ready for further mayhem.. that's my phone.. k300i... it can do nice shots with proper light.. or maybe not..

work bench..

side shot.. the side intakes are being sculpted by adding a layer of super glue to toughen the leather and then sanding.. repeat until i get a rounded, cvasi-organic form, not to symmetric, not to weird.. something a bio-mecha mouse would 'grow' to adapt..

..closer shot.. still can't focus right.. i need the flash, but it's not available in the macro mode.. so my handshake blurs everything..

shots of the wire-mesh installed from the inside structure.. i used the soldering gun to heat the mesh in some points and pressed it against the mouse.. it liquefied and bonded..

more shots.. the intakes have chrome mesh and the exhaust has copper mesh.. looks nice.. and with some lighting.. <??>

..blood shot.. i heal to fast.. i'm wolverine's cousin... but i shed some blood.. you can see how blood trickled to the back side, flooding my nail..

..top side.. under construction still..

..compared to the first version..

..another shot...

..more.. more side intakes, on both sides hopefully will assure more airflow..

..more.. i have to do something with that weird thing i bet you can see near the 3xfire button.. i had to do it like that because the top-most layer wouldn't fit.. not even the stock did that well.. they chose a very weird mounting mechanism..

..more.. hopefully the new 'design' of the vents will make it stronger.. i didn't wanna make them wide and with small struts.. looks interesting.. don't like it 100% tho.. have to experiment more..

..more.. you can see the only stock remaining part, although it has been sanded to remove the markings for the speed changer.. the middle section will be kept like that, cause it works best IMO..

..more.. see? it's not just the perspective.. the new model is bigger..

..more.. weird... the older is blacker.. hmm.. need black die paint and can't find it..

..more.. by extending the leather area i hid the side buttons and will hid further mods better.. this is like a tank.. no more sports car.. i have a NOS escalante

..assembled and buttons tweaked to .. work.. when building something up, like thicknesses, it's nice to check and tweak.. i don't want a leather piece of furniture.. i want a functional mouse..

maybe is should paint everything black? some acrylic and die paint? hmm.. still possible..

..slit made for the switch that will control the fan.. man, i have so many ideas to go with the roomy inside: resistors, fan, fan control?

..because i'm dead tired and hungry.. and my head is killing me.. i'm gonna end this with a cheap, fast .gif of the before and after kind

hmm.. on second thought.. i still have to sand some more, to get the lines close as possible to perfection.. night..

[armadilloben]

what program are you using to make the .gifs i love something like that

[dgrmkrp]

errmmm.... the frames where made by varying the opacity in 2 layers in photoshop, then i saved each frame and made an animation using a free downloaded gif thingy>> barbarosa or something.....

[dgrmkrp]

hmm.. i am just starting to delve in the wonderful world of electrotechnics... yey! for an exam.. buu... before, that, i forgot to post a ghetto style mod.. well, not a mod.. but ask yourself.. if u have cd cases, duct tape, carpenter's glue and lots of ..errmm.. pinkish paper.. what can u do with them? oh, and i forgot, thanks to a friend, i have a hole in the window too... so? i had an idea..

hole in the window prepped..

case prepped..

forming the duct...

after drying, i now have big temps in my room (>30 degrees centigrade) and ~25 degrees for my cpu.. this with 5v >> just some cool air entering... in silence.. and with improper positioning of the heatsink's fins.. (i'm studying to change that..)

edit1:

..can't go lower.. dammit.. will have to take voltages lower... i have all fans running on max now... hmm... the fin alignment would take temps much much lower... #@$%@.. i wanna go sub zero... ..ok, rant over.. i'll quit experimenting for tonight, as i don't like noise.. uu, i just hit 18

edit2:

..lower...

[GT40_GearHead]

man you are going to suck bird in triugh that thing lol

great idea, but won't it cool the room too?

how much did you pay for the x-750... ou, and i have the blue one

[dgrmkrp]

ROFL.. that's what my room mates said.. "you're gonna get feather inside your case man! don't do it"... but if u look closely, there is a copper mesh installed.. i have nothing with lil birds that might get caught.. they never bothered me so i will try not to distress them either (but in the summer, during summer exams, there are some type of owls that can't quit singing at night.. no comment.. woooot... woooot... )

well... considering i'm really in need of cooling too another +... this guys are crazy! they are pumping heat thru the heating system to drive us out, i think =)) so, we usually have to open the windows, cool down, close them.. repeat i just turned the fans down and stopped one.. now i have 32 degrees... and silence.. i love silence..

[GT40_GearHead]

ahaaa now i see it, tha damn thing was so fine i thought its cardboard or something

[dgrmkrp]

ok, for this installment, i shall continue to mod my mouse.. oh, my nice old crt tube passed away so i have to switch between computers and sometimes use the adjacent screen and plug it in my pc..

on to the pics:

the window side of the room, with visible computers and displays.. i would say this is a nice example of space management... looks a bit different now..

..dead screen... or a new kind of kit bashing project

friends pc.. covered with white/transparent plastic panels and with 4 ccfls...

..his mouse, in building stages.. silver after 2 coats and sands.. black is cleared with about 5 coats now, still not happy tho..

..leds i was playing with.. i have about a dozen.. red, green, yellow.. from keyboards and cigarette lighters.. and some laser diodes we are playing with.. i wanna try and do the predator gun

..some stuff i got out of the dead screen.. lots of resistors, some caps, some transistors.. most i can use, some have been charred or the legs have been cut too short.. by me..

..old pic of body work i did to the mouse.. gonna have a new session of sanding soon.. still, i'm taking a break right now from learning.. so not that soon..

..close-up of the mesh i used inside.. this is from long ago, just testing it.. although it's final now, i refined the slits more.. and will repeat until i'm satisfied..

electronic work and analyzing my possibilities...

some pics of the leds.. i'm going all blue with this one.. the top 2 leds are connected to the color changing mechanism that informs me of the mouse's sensitivity (different intensity leds are used so i can tell a lil how much speed i have.. and at which step i am).. bottom leds are connected at different points in a diode series circuit, so that i dropped the voltage without using resistors.. this i did before i had lots of spare resistors from my now dead screen..

dark shots..

.. i painted the insides of the mouse white after covering and insulating all wires.. i left the wires that will lead to the fan longer.. the paint diffuses the light a bit and gives me a base to work with further.. i wanna paint it with some blacks and grays.. or not.. i don't know et..

on another plane, it seems another pack of ordered stuff is gonna arrive soon:

..for the chipset.. more modding involved as i don't know how to integrate this in my airflow schematic.. for best performance and stability.. but i have some ideas..

a nice fan control.. not needed right now, but why not?
i wanna build my own, but this is gonna offer me a hint on what they use (commercially) so maybe i can build some similar stuff, with better components >: )

for the ram: copper headt-spreaders .. errm.. hopefully for some new ram:

corsair ram 2x 512MB ddr 400, cl2.5 good enough and better than what i have now

okay.. enough.. ishould log off now (literally, i'm very sleepy..). bye

[dgrmkrp]

how much did you pay for the x-750... ou, and i have the blue one

hmm... because i use the pc mostly at night when others are sleeping, i seem to have missed this.. sorry.. i payed about 25$,but i found it at 23 too, but was out of stock.. up to now i spent about 5$ on super glue =)) and the leds were free..

[dgrmkrp]

well, i'm back... exams finish the day after tomorrow.. too much too learn.. need a break

pic time :

got my ram heat spreaders

and installed them..

got two silent fans to replace 2 of my own.. they are recom 120mm, yellow uv blades, 1700rpm@19db.. so they say, of course.. they are quite silent (not like ac12), but move a lot of air

go this fan too.. enermax with variable rotation gave it away as a gift

..with this lil mod: a gf5200 with a zalman north bridge heat sink

also, we washed out heat sinks funny =)) lots of dust there, too much!

fan controller installed and working nicely..

..some uv action

oh, i removed everything cause i put zalman paste all over my chips
till next time..