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Lol no just edit it to say double post and leave it. Its not that big of a deal.

I love what you've done so far. Working with Aluminium is so much fun...

 

could you isolate a single one of the aluminum squares from ground and use that as a touch sensitive switch?

 

Blame it on Cheaps!

Or the shrooms.

 

Thx a lot, yeah Alu is fun, almost like sculpting clay sometimes. However the softness can be a pain someteimes aswell

That was my plan actually but I don't know weather or not a touch switch out of anodized alu will let the current through, as anodized is non conductive. I don't think it will work but I havn't had this confirmed yet.

haha never thought of that, I'll just blame cheaps and the mushrooms

 

Just try The Atmel qt1010 only costs 7kr, and all you need in addition is a couple of capacitors and a resistor..

The QT1010 is a SOT package(pdf), so it might be a pain in the a** to solder, but if you scroll down on the site I linked to, they have the QT 110 for ~50kr in a SOIC package..

EDIT: seems like they have the whole range in stock!

 

Thank for the links.
Yeah I guess I could try,in "worst" case I could always use it for future projects incase it doesn't work. I don't think I'll be able to order from farnell though as I've tried but they only ship to companies. Have found the QT110A on another place, a bit more expensive though.

 

Awesome JOB bro
as far as i can see this is a masterpiece item.

hopefully your next project using ATX or E-ATX board, there will be outstanding result and challenge.

 

Thanks
Well since "ProtoHype" is still in the making I already got an ATX project going on. My future projects are going to be a mix of both itx and atx projects. However Im not that big fan of HUGE Tower cases.. but who knows, things might change.

 

Im back again after a short break in updating
Moving around takes time, sometimes a bit to much. But now I've settled down (atleast for now) and It's time to get this thing done.

Im have been doing some more work on the frame of the case. Mainly finetuning the previous pieces to make them all fit. At first I had an Idea to keep it simple and mount some of the sidepieces with screws from the outside. However, picky as I am I soon decided That I didn't want any screwholes vissible on the sides at all. So of course there is the need for some more machining, but I think it will be worth it in the end when the only vissible screws will be the ones on the backside.






























Testfitting as always, these pieces will be screwed together from the inside. The cutout in the bottom is for the heatpipe as you will se in the next pics.






The backside/lid will be placed on the inside of that edge and be flush with the sides.


Thats it for today.

 

Wow man, that's awesome! Someone aced metalwork xD

 

One of the big advantages of anodized aluminum is that it doesn't conduct electricity, just FYI.

 

Looking awesome Gnu

 

I love this mod

 

Thanks a lot

Yeah Im familiar with that, though it might be a dissadvantage on those rare ocations when you wanna make a touchswitch.

Thanks editor

Im glad you like it, love your stuff aswell

 

This log has gotten me really into aluminum!

I don't got the equipment to work with it, but i'm still intrested where you got it from?
edit: since some pieces seem to be rather thick, the aluminum pieces I find is rather thin, just to clarify

 

That is a really nice fit for the heatpipe , top notch stuff still GNU .

 

That's some awesome metalwork! The covers look great!

 

Wow I didn't think I'd be able to contribute anything to this but .
Drill a small hole where you want the touch switch & mask it by plugging it, there are plug type things you can get for masking threads, then once it's been anodised you will still have a bare patch hopefully this will allow you to do what you want.
Kinda like ear plugs but for anodising & ones for powder coating.

 

Wow!