Looking nice so far but heavy too. Then again you could always take it with you when you go out. If anyone messes with you then you could just drop it on them. really though it looks good so far. The wood just looks a little thick to me.
'What this? Another update already' I hear you cry. well, yes. I've been working on the motherboard tray today. Stole the motherboard tray from trusty GlobalWin802, after 5 years of loyal service i think it's time it went in the bin! First thing to do was to get rid of the backplate to leave just the I/O panel and tray. Started to drill out the first rivet and whoopsie! One new drill bit later and there we have it. I was pleasantly shocked at how good a fit the tray is in the case, freaky! A look at how it's gonna be laid out in the end. I used the rivet holes as mounting points and screwed the backplate on so that i could mark out the area that needed removing. Drilled some bigs holes and then jigsawed it out. Some filing later. Sorry for the crap pics at the end. that's it for now.
This is just not true. First of all - few leds are actually rated exactly 3.0V or exactly 4.0V, so chances are you'll be running them out of spec (say 4x2.7V). Also, LEDs are not perfect - even diodes made in the same batch will operate differently. Also, sometimes a diode will wear out, or die, or start behaving differently. A resistor gives you some sort of protection against all of these problems. I never, ever, use diodes without current limiting resistors.
I love the idea about how you cut up a case so every thing fits but it is still inside a cube instead of having to make custom racks in the cube.
I'll be keeping an eye on this log. I'm currently in the planning stages of my own MDF cube (350mm cube) out of a mixture of 12mm MDF for the main chassis and structural supports, and 6mm MDF for any details. Funnily enough, I'm also using a GlobalWin 802 as a doner case.
Thanks for all the comments guys, it's nice to know people are actually reading my log as for updates, i've just started a full time job which is good in some ways and bad in others. I'll have more money to spend on it but less time to work on it, so it will get done. I may go to i22 in which case it will need to be finished for then but seeing as though that's only 24 days away i'm not so sure. But be patient, the updates will come when i have time to work on it.
I really dont like wooden cases a lot but this one by far is really interesting. Keep up the good work.
Just re(file)sized all the pics so all pics are less then 60kb now instead of ~150kb should make loading much faster
I quit my job on friday so did some work to celebrate. Just a small work was done on fitting the psu. Just marked out where it was gonna go. Marked out the area that needed to go. Jigsawed out the centre This pic is meant to issulstrate the way i'm fixing in the psu, it has a small L shaped bracket at the back with 2 long oval cuts in in. basically just using that to screw it into place, crap picture but i'll snap a better one soon. Thats the finished result. it looks sketchy there and i was dissapointed with it but it shouldn't look so bad when the paint job is finished. Next i'm gonna do the blow holes aswell as the hard drive cage mounting and power switch and fan controller mounting. I've decided to mount the dvd drive internally but i'll explain more about that when i do it.
If you're not happy with those edges, they should be easy to neaten up with a file/sander. Good to see some more progress though. I think your case will be finished long before mine.
Finally an update It's looking good at this point mate, as mentioned above, use a file to tidy up the edges of that hole for the PSU, it would look much better.
Got a bit more work done on the case today. More specifically, the hdd cage. This is the victim that'll hold my newly purchased 36GB 10k Atlas Scsi disk and my 60GB 'Cuda 5. As you can see, it has those handy mounting clips on top which i shall use to my advantage. Those clips pair up nicely with the slots in the bottom of the cage. Unfortunately i was then rudely interupted by this. Mmmmmm presents. Just a fan grill and my white cold cathode though. back to work. They are the holes i'll use to mount the rails. Time to dremel. One side off. 2 Down. Perfect. Rails mounted above the PSU so that internal exaust fan on the PSU should draw cold air down over the drives. That's the theory anyway. I have a hard drive cooler coming aswell just to make sure my scsi drive doesn't overheat. Crap pic of the drive in position. I'm going to fashion some sort of block that i was screw down at the end of the drive bay so that it can't slip out. Just a test to make sure that the cathode was working. Next up is fan holes.
Cant wait to see your next update this project is going to look kinda the same like a project of mine on the inside
GOD DAMIT ! you are making me sleepless .. cant you just finish this one FAST now i like to sleep cant wait until you done !
