Scratch Build – In Progress A mITX build for my mom (19:th October, Soon finished, some overall images)

You don't know how much I'm proud of you.

- Mom

 

From what I saw, you did the paintjob by hand.

How much time was needed so the paint to get dry? What paint you used ?

 

Djayness: I can tell you that i will do more than just plaster and paint it.

thegyufi: Thanks!

Dk_vr: Yes i did the painting by hand, the brand of the color is DecoMax. When i put the primer on i painted really thin layers and it dried in ~1 day. With the black paint i put a thick layer on and now, 2 days later, it still is sticky(tho partially dry so you can touch it).

 

Just a small teaser of what will come! All i can say is that it was much harder to modify the aluminium than what i initially thought.

This is just a work in progress and will look better when done.

 

I continued with the mysterious box!
My guess is that i will give you many small updates as i progress, stay tuned!

 

So far so good. I wonder what will be after the teasers.
And yes, aluminium is a bit tricky to work with material, especially for cutting.

 

Looks like some aluminium brazing (soldering or what ever other kind of voodoo you call it) to me

I really like the model on the first page! compact, clean and sexy.... looking forward to seeing it progress

 

Thanks! Probably more teasers until it is done!
The cutting was no problem but the soldering/brazing was hard.

Yep it is soldering/brazing tho really hard to work with. Thanks!

 

Okay, so a update. I accedentaly f*cked the box up, heated the aluminium too much and it melted in a corner. I was really angry after that but I'm glad that i had to make a new one. The second box is build on a much smarter way, here goes:















I have started to file it down in corners and such but i don't have a pic of it. I went home to my apartment a few days so i won't make a update until the end of this week, given that i went back to my dad that is.

 

Looks interesting... can't wait to see the finished product...

 

For what is this tray/bracket? For HDD?

 

Still a secret!

 

raspberry pi i reckon!!

 

I love ITX builds so that's me subbed. Can't wait to see the Asrock Z77E-ITX as it's simply the most beautiful board I've seen and I can't get enough of it.

 

Actually it is not. This is a box within a box!

http://ct.fra.bz/ol/fz/sw/i51/5/3/2...n-so-we-put-espresso-in-your-fresh-d77499.jpg

Thanks mate! Yeah it is a beautiful motherboard!

 

Update time!

The mysterious box is almost done! (Need some metal plaster and paint to finish it)



Now it is time to uncover it's function, i'll let the series of pics below describe it!









So there you go! It is a SSD / Card Reader box combo, just to save some space. (The SSD casing i fine tuned won't be used when i got this now)



Oh, and one more thing. I received the motherboard for this build!

 

Great stuff! Love the "fusion" card reader/SSD combo, very clever.

 

Haha, love the fusiooon

 

Haha, that card reader is a very nifty thing! I'm liking all the clever little touches you're adding to this build, great work!

 

Love those mobo colours!