Scratch Build – Complete ⭐ Lonherz Kernel 2.0

Mounting a mirror in the case


Now it's time to unveil the mysterious device!



For this purpose, I must mount over the hard disk structure a very technological device: a mirror!






I glued some layers of poliver and a steel bar behind the mirror:





Then I covered the behind and the sharp edges with a printed drawing and some white tape:





The mirror position should be adjusted with precision, so I mounted it on this steel bar, to be able to rotating and moving it freely.






Well, now that you know that the mysterious device is a mirror, we can move on to something else...

 

Mounting the video projector in the case


...lol I was joking NOW arrives the mysterious device!


Do you remember that shape drawn on the PSU cover?
I made a big hole on the PSU cover with that shape, because this is the shape of the device's base:





And this is the device's base:





The device has a little speaker, so I made an hole on the case for it:





And for the first time in a pic, this is the mysterious device!






Now I do a simple engraving on the PSU cover:






The mysterious device is turned on...





...and after the mirror, there is another technological device... a plastic bag!








Now it should be clear what is the mysterious device: it is a VIDEO PROJECTOR!
It should be a secondary monitor for the pc, projected on the front wall of the left tower.


This is a test of the projector (the projection is reflected from the mirror on the front screen):





And now I can show two old ugly pics from 2005, when I made a first positioning test of the projector and the mirror :

 

well, I thought about a printed circuit board like my avatar ... but I'm totally surprised about the new mysterious devices , you really don't lack imagination , this project is totally crazy and I looove it

 

I was referring to the shape of the proximity sensor engraving :







Actually that shape is inspired by the in-game mouse cursor of Tron 2.0 (in the red circle):






PS: about the mysterious device, that videoprojector is very old (it was from the 90's) and with a very low definition, so in the 2.0 version I have replaced it with a new HD mini-projector that also is a lot brighter

 

2005? Is that a joke, or is this project really that old?

 

no, it isn't a joke! (look at the quality of the first pics... )

I started this project in 2005, and completed the first version in 2008. Then I have started a complete restyling (a 2.0 version) in january 2018.

The part of the project log that I have posted until now refers to the old 1.0 version (I'm still translating the project log), but soon I will arrive to translate the recent 2.0 part

 

I respect.

 

thanks!

 

Incredible!

 

thank you!

 

Making the cable that links the sensors circuit to all the case devices


Now that all the components are in place, it's still missing the cable that links the touch sensors circuit to all the various components in the case.


This is the starting material:





The relay for the audio mute button:





Power and reset connectors for the motherboard:





The switch to turn on and off the videoprojector:





This connector must be connected between the videoprojector and his PSU, in this way:

BEFORE: AFTER:



The molex that must be connected to the PC's PSU:





The molex for powering all the cold cathode lights:





The fan connectors:







The sensors circuit power supply (the circuit must have an indipendent power supply, because it must be always active to power on the pc, even when the PC's PSU is powered off):





Covering the wires with some heat-shrink sheat:





And this is the completed cable:




The indipendent power supply for the circuit (it belongs to an old mobile phone):

 

Starting to assemble the PC hardware in the case


And now it's the moment of the final step: mounting the PC hardware in the case!

[Note from the future: it was not the final step at all! Don't worry if you see old hardware in these pics, this is the first version from 2008. Soon I will post the current hardware... (i5 6600k, RX 580, etc.)]



Here I'm disassembling the hardware from my previous mod "AluBT" (it was a similar concept: an all-in-one block with the case behind the monitor, all made in aluminium):






And now I can assemble them in the Kernel:

 

Assembling the PC and case lightings


Here I remove the dummy hard disk and I put two green cold cathode lights:




I mount the real hard disk:




A lighting test of the "infected sector":





The PSU (mounting the PSU I discovered that the motherboard cable was too short.. I will make an extension):





The videoprojector:





I plug the hard disk molex (for now I have only one hard disk, so in the second slot I keep the opened hard disk):






And I start to connect the touch sensors circuit cable to the components:





Some lighting tests:





Here I mount a power strip too: (in the case are needed 4 sockets: PC, monitor, touch sensors circuit, videoprojector)






And this is the extension for the PSU-motherboard cable:





The final result:





Then I had to extend the 4 pin PSU-CPU cable too:





And these are the two extended cables connected to the motherboard:

 

Some other cold cathode lights:






To avoid lighting the green infected sector with blue light, for the circuit encasing I have covered with some blue tape 3 of 4 sides of the cold cathode tube:





for the top panel I used this 6 LED structure:






And then I can finish to assemble the PC and I turn it on for the first time!

 

Talk about throwback!

 

Lol that is vintage hardware
In a few updates I will arrive to the recent part, I can not wait to get there!

 

I found the cable managment a bit messy at first glance, but the result is great when it's illuminated

 

thank you, but I thought the same, the cable management was A LOT messy... so, for the 2.0 version I have moved all the cables hidden under the steel base

 

good idea, IMO, you put so much patience into the whole project, it deserves a better cable managment, or any trick to hide it properly

 

It will be done!