"Yuugou" Finished (1 Buy.com Lan pic)

Sparkyftw is right, it comes in between two sheets of cardboard. By a shear i actually meant one of these things:
http://www.ee.byu.edu/services/shop/images/metal_shear.jpg

Much easier.

I have to agree with you. On Sangaku there are too many things that I can honestly I'm ashamed of (as a furniture maker, not as a person) but with this case, I'd be proud to take a detail shot of almost any part of the case. Its slightly tempting to redo the interior of Sangaku after i come back from Italy. I like aluminum much better than acrylic and I think the combination of wood and aluminum is very hot. We shall see.

 

No fair - you've got all the fun toys!! =) I bet you've got a brake too!

 

Actually yeah, its right next to the shear. Its not very good though, i think people tried to bend too much wire with it or something but it works...sorta

Update later today most likely

 

Hot dang! I _NEED_ more!! NOOW!!

;]

 

Man, I've loved your Sangaku and I love this one!

Awsome!!!

 

Hey guys. Thanks a lot and thanks for hanging in there. Right now I'm on a modding blitz. In worked in the shop on the case yesterday for essentially all day (classes? what classes) and I have tons of of work done. Now I just need to get pictures of everything. I'll have a major update sometime this weekend. Stay tuned

 

SilverStone Review

Hey guys, I did a little review for the SilverStone ST85F power supply that will be used for Yuugou. Check it out on my site here:

http://www.nickfalzonedesign.com/Silverstone.html

 

That's a beautiful hunk of hardware. Even nicer than the Tagan PSUs I'm familiar with.

 

It really is quite pretty. Too bad I can't fire it up yet though.

Alright guys and gals, i've been working almost non-stop on this thing and I have two big updates to show for it.

First off, my roomate helped me figure out a design for the front. For a while I played around with a few simple lines doing whatever but I became sick of meaningless designs so we picked a couple characters that look good and mean something that make sense. These two mean "carpentry" which in Japan, is an honorable thing.

Tell me what you think:


This design will be cut out of the 3/16inch alu leaving either black alu behind it or some sort of paper, we shall see.

Next comes the rad shroud and fans; something I neglected until now.

I made the shroud itself by bending some 1/8 inch alu and putting rubber stripping along the top and bottom:


To make powder coating easier, i decided to screw all the fans together with an Aluminum bar like so:







Next I got to redo the supports for the interior shroud thing.

After some design changes, the old supports were too short so I needed to replace them with these:


And done:


That was the easy part. Attaching the shroud to these was something else.
Actually, i screwed up and the gap was too big:


After the second one turned out great,


I decided to do it again and ended up with this:










Next comes some water cooling stuff. I milled the holes in the bottom plate to accept the bulkheads:


Here:


And here:


And finally, my card retention mechanism has been shrouded in secrecy (mostly because I didn't have a plan) but heres what I'm planning:




Close Up:


It seems to work quite well. Upon doing this though, i noticed a fundamental flaw in the case design that I'm going to have to work on ( I already figured it out). If you can guess what it is, uh, congratulations. It has something to do with the wood/metal interaction but everything should be fine.

This is part one of this weeks work. I have a lot more to show but i'll save that for tomorrow. Until then, stay tuned and comments are always welcomed.

 

Looks absolutely awesome, digging the mesh in particular

I bet it took a while to figure the lower front part of the mesh out, bending it that way smoothly just can't be easy. But hey, you pulled it off perfectly

Also your card retention system is quite inspirational, liking it too.

Well heck, the whole case is a piece of art, what's not to like, lol.

Looking forward to Part II of the update.

Janne

 

it looks amazing..

I'm jealous when I see that great idea for the card retention. The design flaw you speak of: something to do with attaching certain wood parts to alu parts?

Oh, the front Japanese markings look very stylish...they fit the overall look and theme well.

 

Thanks a lot guys.

@Darkened: Bending the Aluminum was surprisingly easy considering I thought it was going to be impossible given the double curve thing. I think the material itself made is possible, if it had been solid aluminum, i'd probably still be at it although i did practice it twice before doing it on the real piece.

@Jokkos:I was worried everyone would hate the characters so I'm glad you like them. The card retention thing was a happy mistake since my previous method of holding them wasn't going to work. I like this better though.

As for the major problem:
The way the case works is the wood can slip right over the aluminum. The wood's only contact point with the alu is around the edges of the front and back plate. The only thing that stops this from working is when something sticks out from the back plate or the front. A keen eye will see that the retention mechanism and the cards themselves definitely stick out .
Somehow I missed this the entire time until I tried to put the wood over the alu with the card mechanism in place. I have a plan though. It hurts, but It should work nicely.

Stay tuned

 

Greeny: really-good stuff..!!

 

I love the theme. Beautiful mod work.

 

even the best of us can make silly mistakes

retention mechanisim is nice, no excess and well packaged. those little card stub-ends are a bitch though, but near enough definitely looks good enough.

Either way, case is looking HOT. nice work

 

Once again it is looking hot.

But on a side note, you ever think about getting a mouse airbrushed to look like wood. Kikboxes posted some pics in the modding section and I think a custom mouse would really compliment the case.

 

Thanks very much everyone.

To be honest, I'm not a huge fan of fake wood even if those mice are quite cool. As a furniture maker, fake wood is the enemy, since it'll put me out of business... when I actually have a business.

Time for Mega Update Part Deuce.

I couldn't upload all the pictures at once and all this work wiped me out. Today actually was another full workday and I'll have another big update coming soon. Things are happening fast and soon this log will go on pause until the case is released later in March.

First up is the wiring. I hate wiring and I fried it twice on Sangaku so I really wanted to do it right this time. The way to do this right is lots of planning, and since i'm a visual person, i laid everything out with string:


I will use a system of blocks to hold the wiring in place. It should be nice and organized hopefully. Here are the blocks milled for their specific wires:


And drilled:


Here is where one is going:




The blocks layed out on the side panel:


And some close-ups:




Here is the case's under belly. These big holes allow air into the radiator. There will also be a screen here to keep out dust:


Remember the card retention device? Here it is attached. Just two screws:




Next, i didn't like being able to see the hdds so i made a cover for them:


With some aluminum joinery:


This will have a design cut into it that you can see through the mesh

I'll let these pictures speak for themselves:










More to come soon. Stay tuned.

 

omg thats effin amazing work there.

lol, i think about it, im up at 2:30 AM reading project logs, and now i see this update, it feels as if the urge to sleep has finally gotten strong enough for me to get in bed....

...but not quite

 

The WOW starts here lol Awesome work!

 

WOW .. Nice work

dude keep it up