SketchUp MNPCtech & Bit-Tech.net case design contest #5 - (Deadline moved to September 1st)

Save your pennies and the trip to Kinko's

Scan in 2-halves and use Photoshop to stich them together.

Scan the illustration in parts and have said image parts open in photoshop.

Photoshop -> File -> Automate -> Photomerge -> "Reposition" -> "Add Open Files" -> "Okay"

And robert's your father's brother, as it were.

*j

 

can somebody PLEASE explain who uncle bob is?

 

Dad won't let me on his computer, strangely, for reasons unknown. So I'll ask when he gets home if he's willing to let me do that.

In the meantime, I have the GIMP if there's a similar command...

and WTF (really!) with that Robert thing...? I don't know anyone by that name...

 

Im going to have to bow out of the comp (even with the extended deadline), New job means i dont get much time to spend with my daughter, so any spare time is being spent with family,

ill still follow the thread, good luck to everybody that makes it to the end.

 

"Robert's your Father's brother" is a retake on the old expression Bob's your uncle.

 

hahaha
Langer, you joker

 

Ah. Got it now.

Next time I'll choose to be born in London so's I can understand ya'll better

 

Pix here! Trying something new with Imageshack, let's see if this works. If not, I promise I'll clean up behind it....











EDIT: Dern straight that worked. Nice! I like how the forum automatically resizes pix to not completely break the formatting. Perspective views in a day or two... gotta get me some non-grid paper that's large format. Dad has some at work he sez he'll give me. (Kudos to him also, for patching together my scans...) And, if I can wrassle up enough dough to repair my half-dried-out Prismacolor marker set, ya'll will get good color illustrations out o' me! (If not, they'll be cr*ppy Crayola colors instead... ACK!)

 

<garfield>
I'd like to ask for a comment from the audience?
*looks around*
I'd like to ask for an audience...?
</garfield>

Seriously, where'd all o' ya'll go? Thought I'd have some feedback by now...

 

well chillax scooter
interesting concept
how big is it?

 

Friggin' great blue whale for a mini-itx box...

18-1/2" - 47cm - Tall
17-3/4" - 45cm - Deep
12" - 30.5cm - Wide

I can give details and/or an interior view, if ya'll want.

 

@ laserhawk
interesting concept

I had to join this site after seeing some of the incredible work here. I will be posting a pic in the near future.

 

Thank you!

If you want to see my first and currently only self-built computer, click here. It's another thread on this forum.

Hope I don't scare you away... that one's what I call a "trashmod" -- it's literally all old junk! (The upshot is that I can brag about building a compy for less than $100... not that I could do that and sell it...)

 

Nice concept Laserhawk, and welcome to the show.

 

Thanks! Ya'll sketchup folks make me look like cr*p tho... I can't do 3d worth a d*mn.

 

that is an awesome concept! I'd almost be inclined to make a rudimentary sketchup drawing of it for you...

Can you specify sizes and innards?

 

You'd do sketchup for me?!?!?! THANK YOU!!!

*grabs me architects ruler and starts measuring*

Everything was drawn 1/2 actual size on 1/4" grid paper (4 squares per inch) BUT here are the measurements for you, so you don't have to count squares or print & measure yerself, lol.

D*mn I'm glad I used (almost) all off-the-shelf parts -- and what isn't can be easily fabbed by someone with a mini machine shop in their garage (That would not be me.)

- The base is 12" diameter and 4" tall; the flat top to the base is 4" diameter as well. It is not perzactly hemispherical, as it's a little too flat. It's actually a rather heavily modified upside-down'd wok

- Optical drive is in a 1" tall by 6" wide box in the base. Drive is a standard slimline/laptop size optical drive, so it is 5" x 5" x 0.5" (LxWxH).

- The front panel box, dimensions and all, can be found here.

- Switches, etc. for front panel -- big ol' power button ; Toggle switch ; Knob for fan controller

- Measurements for the "spire" or "dog's-tail-lookin'-thing" at the back -- 13-1/2" o'all, 3" wide. The angles are all 45deg. The short angles (2x2 squares) are 3/4" long, and there's a 3/4" vertical between the two on the bottom. Yer gonna have to guess as to how long the remaining angle goes into the wok base. I never bothered to find out. I can tell you that there's a 1/4" horizontal between that angle and the arc. As for the arc itself, I've no clue as to the radius, if it's even got one -- I just drew something that looked good

- The arc on the spire. I'll try to measure it. It is 9" bottom to top, and it is 2-1/2" from the base to the center, horizontally. Vertically, it's 6-1/2" base-to-center and 2-1/2" top-to-center. Good luck

- The box is made out of wood... it measures 7" on a side. Note the picture-frame-style edging

- Fan at the top-rear of the box is here. Grill for the fan is the "Nautilus", here. The grill at the bottom-front of the box is here... although I was thinking of using the gear-style one here instead... you're the guy with the 3d software, you tell me which it's gonna be

- The rods connecting the box to the spire are 3/8" diameter; that's probably waaaaay overkill but whaddaya expect with this one. There's a flat part on the box back that connects the rods to the box... but I never figgered out how wide it is Good luck with that. (Technically, it could be taken out... but... that makes the edging wacko complicated.) The arcs of metal on the rods are more-or-less randomly drawn, but the metal is uniformly 1/8" thick.

- OK, so one (small, to me) cheat of sorts. I used another fella's idea for the helix o' glowy in between the box and the base. He calls it Poor Man's Neon, and his method of building it is here. I hope it's OK to use that, given that I'm sayin' whodunitferst. Also, his isn't in a helix! (That'd be real fun to do IRL, I bet )

- The wierd lookin' shading thingy inside the helix is a great big tangle o' wires that I was too lazy to put any detail into. All cables go through the helix and into the base.

Hay gaiz I'm gonna split this into three parts like Gaul (lookittup if ya don't know) so's not to hit any post-size limits. Next post is gonna be the electro-guts, and then the colors.

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

 

I'll have a bash, i really like the design. I'll need to get used to working in inches though, as i normally work with real sizes.

 

H'okay. Here goes for the innards.

The base contains the PSU and drives. Custom cable goes from the PSU to the socket at the back of the compy. The box houses the mainboard, suspended between the left and right edge points of the box... that is, the motherboard is not tilted side-to-side, but is 45deg off the horizontal from front to rear.

Round SATA cables for all drives, please. Newegg has 'em, and they rule IMO. VGA connector on the back of the machine is actually a gender-changer hooked up to a standard VGA cable. (Wish they made THIN cables fer that, dernitt!!) LAN port is a similar arrangement: a standard LAN cable and a cable joiner box thingy. Haven't figgered out the USB cable bit yet; that may have to be a custom part. Audio cables are standard audio extension cables (yes, M-F ext cables for audio DO exist, I have a pair at home!) As noted in the last post of mine, all cables go through the helix.

NOTE: I know that the board I chose has an HDMI connector... but I saw no need to use it. This is NOT a gaming rig, ya'll.

Innard parts are as follows.

ASUS AT3IONT Motherboard
250W Flex-ATX Power Supply
WD VelociRaptor 300GB HDD
A nice slimline DVD Burner
This wok is the base when you get rid of the handles and turn it upside down

That's it for the guts. Next up is colors and such.

OH JOY.

 

By "real sizes" I assume you mean that d*mned screwy foreign metric system?

JUST KIDDING I SWEAR

OK, now for the color scheme.

All of the glowy bits (the symbols on the box, the circle-thingy-with-rays on the spire, and the helix) glow blue. In addition, what you don't see is that in each corner of the box there is a 4" CCFL, also blue.

The glowy symbols on the box are clear Plexiglas (isn't that called Perspex in the UK ) which is to say, acrylic plastic. There's absolutely no benefit to using Lexan (polycarbonate plastic aka cop's favorite windshield material) and it's more expensive anyways, so, like, whatever, dude. The symbol and rays on the spire are also plexi.

The box itself is wood, a nice dark cherry look... in fact, if you look at Paper Tiger (linky in a previous post in this thread somewhere) take the wood base for it and make it a wee bit more red... 'bout like this. The box's edging is lacquered brass. All of those little screws in the box, as well as the ones for the fan grills, should be black as an asphalt road in the middle of a moonless night.

The fan grills are also brass-look. There is a sheet of modder's mesh in between the big fan and the big grill. This is a one-fan chassis, but I don't care well, technically the PSU has a fan, and its vent is the wok base where the fake neon and cables are...

Cables should all be black, with two exceptions: (1) the SATA cables are silver and round, and (2) the power wires are au naturel. No sleeving here that's part of the theme here

The wok and the spire are sort of a weathered-steel look, not outright rusted but not brand-spanking-shiny-new either. The front-panel box's support (mount strut?) should be the same way, as should the arcs on the rods.

The rods themselves as well as the front-panel box are brass and brass-look, respectively. The DVD burner surround is wood, to match the wood box, and the burner itself has a brass-look front panel (yay spray paint!)

Gimme a few minutes and I'll post up a collage sorta thingy with all the symbols and the D'ni script. One small note about that: the symbol on the front-panel box does not light up, but the two LEDs flanking it do... they are both blue, of course.

BRB with that image for ya, soon as I can kick CorelDRAW into action that thing takes a few to percolate into readiness, just like a good cuppa tea amirite?