Scratch Build – Complete ⭐ Lonherz Kernel 2.0

Extensions to the USB, ethernet and audio ports


At this point I extended some PC ports.

Ethernet:




USB (I used a 4 port hub):




And 2 audio ports: one of them is always on, while the other is controlled by the mute button (one of the touch sensors):

 

Mounting the fans


The two fans (speed controlled by one of the touch sensors) are placed over the projector, to generate a flow from the motherboard zone to the left tower:

To mount each of them I used a steel bar and a bolt, to hang them on two roof joints:




The hanging system:




The fans were too big, so I had to cut one of the corners to fit them in place:




And finally these are the fans mounted:

 

Photos of the assembled computer


Now I can finally put the case outside for some photos:




but there's one thing missing: a transparent "Lonherz Kernel" sticker:
[Note from the future: I didn't like that sticker, so I removed it after a while]






AND NOW A LOT OF PICS OF THE ASSEMBLED COMPUTER!


Powered off, without flash:




Powered off, with flash:





And powered on at the twilight:

 

Painting and mounting the case feet


I realized that I forgot one thing: the case feet!


I previously cut and painted in grey 8 wood discs:




To make a "metal" effect, I sprayed a little quantity of white paint. It was just the quantity to obtain little white dots on the grey background, so these drops seems like light reflections, as in a raw metal surface.
This is the effect:





This is the sequence:

First the grey backround:




Then the quick pass with white spray, to form the little white dots:




I glue the felt pads:




And this is the result:

 

Photos in the dark with projected secondary monitor


Some pics in the dark, with the projector turned on, showing the secondary monitor:

 

Mounting 4 other cold cathode lights


I thought that the case was not enough enlighted, so I added 4 other cold cathodes: two white and two purple.

I have made the purple lights by myself, using white lights and a film of purple chromatic filter:






First I moved another blue neon on the upper part of circuit encasing (so it is enlighted by 2 neons):




Then I put the 6 blue led structure to better light the proximity sensor engraving:






Here I complete the wiring of the two couples of neons:






And here I put the purple neons under the PSU cover:






The white neons must light the motherboard:





One of them lights the motherboard from below:




The other one is hidden behind the big PSU-motherboard cable, so it lights the upper part of the motherboard and the "acid green" transparent plastic wire that spires around the cable's tube:




This is the effect on the cable's tube:








And now some overview pics with the new lights:

 

It is just a cyberpunk!!!

 

talking about cyberpunk... in the next update there will be a handmade mechanically moved component

 

Making a projection panel in polycarbonate


After few months, I replaced the ugly plastic bag that I used as a projection panel, with a polycarbonate 2mm panel that I sanded with sandpaper.





Then I made a sanded polycarbonate cover to hide the feedback LEDs:

 

and now, the mechanically moved thing that I said before...

Making the “prankster bit”


I added a thing to the case that I wanted to do from the beginning of the project!

The device I wanted to make was a handmade mechanically moved object, that represented the final weapon of Tron 2.0: the "Prankster Bit".

This weapon can be seen in this short video, and it is basically a purple glowing cylinder with some animated dark fins flying all around:

 

First I needed a slow electric motor to move a bicycle brake cable back and forth: I made it using a motor and some gears from my Lego technic stack:





Then I cut some thin strips of polycarbonate:




Then I took a bicycle brake cable, I removed the black plastic sheat, and I inserted it with an electric cable in a transparent rubber tube (so the appearance of this cable is similar to the structural joints).





I glued with epoxy one of the brake cable's ends to two Lego pieces:

 

At this point, I started to work on the actual "Prankster bit":

For the glowing cylinder I used this plastic graduated cylinder:




I sanded it to make it translucent, keeping some parts transparent:





Then I cut the triangular fins from an aluminium bar:





I made some holes all around the cylinder (a hole for each fin), then I polished the edges of the polycarbonate strips:






I drilled a hole on the strips ends:





Then I opened this holes, to obtain a sort of socket to join the strips to a central shaft:





And then I assembled all the strips on the central shaft (a threaded steel bar) in the cylinder:






Now, you can imagine that moving back and forth the central shaft, all the strips will be moved accordingly

 

At this point I joined the shaft to the brake cable, and a purple cold cathode light to the electric cable:





Then I polished and glued the aluminium fins to the polycarbonate strips:






And finally two pics of the assembled and lighted "prankster bit", mounted in the case :

 

VIDEO of the moving “prankster bit”

 

It is the craziest project that I saw. Hardcore!!! Yeah-h-h-h-h

 

crazy, funny, original, completely out of the trands, , you are an alien

 

I am a ogre.

 

you might be , seems we share the same passion too , 'hope to have a chance to see some ogre's modding one day, it should be epic

 

I save rage so far... Yet not time.

 

Thank you both!!!

During the work I have changed a lot of ideas, but one thing I wanted from the beginning was that my mod had to be absurd and unconventional at any cost...