Project: Tribal, 23/4/07

Hi all,
This is my first mod

i am planing on making a tribal case
with the colour sceme as black and silver with blue lights

I found a cheap case in a shop in town only £25 with a 400w power suply

 

I began this mod by permanently hotwiring my PSU. This will be to test the lighting and other eletricals



All closed up



The inside of it



After this I started work on the side panel by masking it off (im not to good at that hehe)



Then I drew the tribal pattern



Started cutting



Finished cutting and filled the air vent holes



this is the top left pattern close up



I sanded the filler down and re filled it

 

Nice theme,keep it up!

 

aie, what happened to the bottom left part?!

 

Do you mean the bottom right?
because bottom left is just a rounded off corner

 

looking good, what sort of colour scheme you going to use?

 

i was thinking of black and silver with blue lighting

 

This is my plan for the front (Drew in paint for speed hehe)
the main black part of it wil be Acrlic with black steel behind it so light dosnt get through
The dvd drive will be a slot load drive with the slot lit up
The lcd will be a blue and white 240 x 128 usb display
The power button will be a Blue Illuminated Bulgin Vandal Switch with the blue light on all the time
The Reset will be a White Illuminated Bulgin Vandal Switch with the white light as the HDD activity
I will probably drill loads of holes in the front for the fan grill
the brushed steel surround will be on all corners of the case

 

LCD
has anyone used one of these in there mod?

 

Tons of people used to use them a while back. Try looking at some of the older project logs of way back when. Go to www.gruntville.com and look at the "hall of fame" mods. I think most people stopped useing them because for about the same price you can buy a 14inch LCD to display ll of that extra information.

 

Sorry for the long time between posts
ill bring an update for u all on monday

 

How about an alphacool dual 5.25" lcd display?? e.g http://www.specialtech.co.uk/spshop/customer/product.php?productid=2379&cat=305&page=1
plus its £1 cheaper.

Keep it up looks to be a kool mod!

cheers josh

 

yes i did mean the bottom right corner, thats the part with the damage, isnt it?

 

Cheers i was thinking about that one anyway
and its cheaper than the one i found

all i need now is a load of cash hehe

 

yes it is the part what had the old grill in it

ill put a pic in the next update for you

 

My LES's + resistors have been dispached
ill post more pics of the case so far when i find my camra

 

Update Time:



The bottom right after second filling



Nearly finished filling old grill



The back fan hole cut out



Started filling the other side grill

 

does anybody know what cables you have to cut going into a hard drive to make it seek but not read it?

 

This may be more complex than you're looking for, but this article on zapwizard tells how to wire the drive up to the DD activity light. I haven't found the place I saw where someone cut the wires in the IDE cable itself, but I remember seeing it. I'll post it if I find it (unless someone else beats me to it).

 

thanks
i rememba seeing it somewhere but i carnt rememba where
i think the hard drive ive got dosnt work anyway