Scratch Build – In Progress BF-O

Hi guys,

my next project is in progress.
I started it in December 2017 after i recieved a few parts of Cooler Master.

My origins lie in the German Black Forest and i had the idea to merge a traditional german cuckoo clock with a multimedia PC.

For that i made few scratch designs and how i could build the whole project but in the end i started to build free.


Materials used will be:
- 3/6mm plywood (first it's easy to work with, second it's cheap so errors might not hurt that much)
- 3D printed stuff
- Acrylic sheet for windows etc.

Hardware is actually not decided yet.
So far i got:
- Cooler Master MasterWatt 500
- Cooler Master MasterLiquid Lite 120
- 2 Cooler Master MasterFan Pro RGB
- a SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB

The style i chose for the case is planed to have 2 different front designes - i hope this will work out.
- First a half timbered house front style with a clock tower
- second something more modern designed

 

Some pictures now of the actual progress:

building the base on 6mm plywood - with 2 120mm holes for the fans.


this is the basic design i ended up with


first works on the front of the case - with 3d printed window frames.


this is what it will kinda look like later.


first time i use filler on 3d printed stuff (not printing that much) - left it unsanded because i want the frames to look shabby. painted them afterwards in burned umber, a dark brown acrylic color.


and started to fill the areas between the frames with styrofoam (white acrylic to make it more look like a real wall.

 

long time no updates, i am sorry for that.

trying to get you up to date now.

the case itself did get a clock tower.


temporary roof and hang the whole thing on the wall.


after that worked out, i finally could install proper working hardware.
but first i made myself a GPU holder. i needed a few tries to get this done.


also i changed the roof with a dormer, so longer GPUs might fit too.
After alot of tries i finally got roof-tiles that worked out the way i wanted the roof to look like.


next steps will be finishing the roof, waiting for my arduino starter pack to get some mechanics running (atleast i will try, never done that)...

 

Looking good. Will there be a cuckoo for this?

 

thanks.
the clockwork had a cuckoo built in, but it was just one going up and down.
my plan is to abuse the 1/4hour wheel to get some effects going with an arduino and a servo...maybe this will include a cuckoo, but i first have to figure it out.