[Edit] I've borrowed this idea from MrBurritoMan's log, I thought it adds a nice convenience. UPDATES 10/24 | PDU 10/27 | Super Mini Update 11/1 | DVD 11/8 | Shiny 11/11 | Little tiny quickie update (more shiny) 11/16 | Buttons & Semi circular shapes 11/21 | Fan Guards & Teddy Bears 11/25 | Fan Guard "Paint Off" 12/02 | Buttons & Watching Paint dry 12/15 | Front Complete! (more or less) 12/22 | Tear Down Complete 1/05/05 | Text Only 01/24 | Back in the Saddle Again! 02/01 | Moving right along! 02/14 | Still sort of moving along 03/05 | New DigiCam! Back in action! 03/21 | Even more Shiny! Back to my original Post: [/Edit] I've got a mod project going for some time now and thought it was time to share. Pinky2 is specifically "designed" for my soon to be 15 year old daughter. It's theme and name are from a teddy bear she's had since she was 6 months old. The design challenge for me has been to keep my audience (her) in mind and keep it "girly". The other challenges have been of course to actually build the darn thing. I think I overreached a bit, when I decided to build the case from scratch. Project is perhaps 3/4 complete(?), but don't believe me, I thought it would be done by now. My deadline was September 15th, when we picked up her advance copy of Sims 2...I've missed that by a wee bit. On to the pics: 3/4 view of the case so far, The pexi is actually Fluorescent Pink Window side view (sans window) Front view Front view as the house tilts. Right side view as the house tilts back Rear view Detail of wire management brackets PSU goes here Bottom inside, wire management in action. "Hand Crafted" Front pexi in place. The bottom panel is the "real" color of Pinky2. CPU cooler Work in Progress on power distribution panel. As you can see there is plenty more to do. I was working my way up from the bottom, and fitting it to the front benzel as I went along, but jumped ahead to my power panel. Comments, suggestions, advice all greatly appreciated. Thanks, greywolf
Update 10/24 Thanks for all the positive responses! I finished up today with completing my power distribution unit (PDU). Here's the layout, from left to right. Three large holes: Papa bear hole is reserved for the fiber optic strands of the "twinkle lights" Mama bear hole is to connect the two input fans from the LCD Baby Bear hole is for the tempature sensors. Next three stacked female molex plugs: Top is a pass through for the LCD Middle powers every thing to the right. Bottom is reserved for the "twinkle light" board. As an added bonus (and just to make my day more difficult) each molex lights up, when plugged in. Two "shiny" sockets (12v): Top-power for unswitched items in the case (40mm HD fan..so far) Bottom- switched power for misc lighting. Six indented sockets (12v): Each corresponds to a side of the 3 HD bay bars, for edge lighting, all are on the same switch as the bottom "shiny" socket. On to the pics: First thing is to make the pexi "translucent" and put some white behind it. The material is applied to the back. Finished panel...looking much pinker and translucent. My I wonder what that mystery material was? Next a little "clean-up" for my lack of skills. A little test to see if it works, and covers my blemishes. Both done, and it looks like I planned it that way. This is how my wiring day started. This (partially) is how it ended. Final product. By the way the metal shell used, started out life as the back of a SCII based external HD (2 gig I think), baby bear hole already existed, and the pexi panel covers the rectangular hole for the SCII ports. That's it for now. Comments, Suggestions, Questions (like why 3 molex inputs, when one would do?) are always welcome.
Nice. It's different - which always makes a good read. Cookie cutter mods can get a bit much after a while (but kudos to one and all with the balls to attack their pc with power tools - I know lots of peoples who wouldn't/couldn't) Keep up the good work. I hope your daughter likes it (very likely) and appreciates all the hard work you've put in (less likely)
looks amazing lovely and clean. Although when I 1st was that front bit.. of the case I thought that would look awesum watercooled. Having the two pipe conntertors come up at the bottom on an angel. Nice job
Thanks, Different is good, most of the time She is quite excited about it, and has been intersted enough to work with me on it a bit (but as a last resort-socially speaking). After our last session (the longest) she was heard to say "No wonder it's taking so long", so I have high hopes on the appreciation factor!
I think you need to look closer My skills are not as adept as I would like them to be. Water cooling was going to be too much for a first Mod, I'm planning to incorporate it in my 3rd project (I have 4 children)
Thanks, R@Mo Thanks, Protius-X. Now that's a high compliment! I would never consider this project anywhere in G-Nome's league! Thanks, mrhanky I'm hoping it will be! My biggest worry is....will it boot! Got awhile to stew on that one.
That looks great. I wish my dad could make me something like that. Where did you get the clear CD drive?
I got it from mwave , that's were I got the majority of my components. It's an Artec "Diablo I" and has three blooo LED's lighting-up the front...I of course had to change them to red. BTW, am I going to have to void the warrenty on all my components before I even see them working? So much pressure....
