Hey guys! It's a new year again, and it means the beginning of a new project for me too. This time, with the help of my sons, I started to build the machine, for which the hardware support was provided by Asus Hungary and EKWB. The basics of the mod are provided by the following hardware: Asus maximus XII Hero Intel i9 10850K SuperFlower 1000W Platinum Watercooling: EKWB full component. Huge thanks for your repeated support! Unusually, I did not start with the design of the house, but I will adapt the frame structure to the planned layout, and then I will create the various elements in 3D printing step by step. My plan was to make shutter slats for the radiators with 3D printing and a shaft sized for this. I designed the shutter slats so that they stand straight when running out, while they roll up nicely on the shaft. I treated the shutters surface, painted and then decorated them with the sponsor's logos. This was followed by the construction of the shutter frame structure and the installation of a stepping motor rotating the shaft. Plexiglass elements made with a laser cutter. There are screws on both sides of the radiator that were ideal for me to mount the shutter.
Fan cover shutter automation completed. The stepper motor is controlled by an arduino microcontroller and an A4988-M motor controller.
I mentioned that the whole frame structure will be made with 3D printing. As the weight of the hardware to be installed will be significant, I chose ABS as the filament. However, printing this is not so easy at first, as this material is shrinking. I first made a lockable housing around the printer so the outside temperature didn’t affect the print quality. I glued a polymer tape to the stage, and I drew a thin layer of plastic adhesive film on it.
I made the printed circuit board with the Eagle software. Due to the 2 motor controllers, the circuit could only be implemented on 2 sides, so implementation seemed a bit difficult, especially since this was my first such job. I printed the plan with a laser beam printer and then glued the photo paper to the properly prepared and cleaned sheet with an iron. After making both sides, I let it cool and then soaked the paper in a water bowl. The sheet thus prepared was placed in a mixture of hydrochloric acid and hydrogen peroxide and diluted with water to reduce the intensity of the etching reaction. The use of rubber gloves and goggles is mandatory. It didn’t become perfect, but the designed circuits are there. I then drilled the implantation points of the parts with a 0.8mm drill.
I made another printed circuit board, I was not satisfied with the previous one. The components are in place and the control program for the arduino is written. In the first round, the control could only be operated via a USB connection, but the circuit has already been designed so that it can be operated from a phone with a Bluetooth connection via an application. It worked!
Insane! I've always thought about doing something like this, but I always thought it was too giga-brained for me
I try to accomplish things that no one else has. Somehow things that can be bought in the crowd aren’t appealing to me. There is still a lot of work to be done on this construction, nor is it certain that it will be completed this year, especially since a video card is not provided by the sponsor.
I am currently at about 70% ready, now comes the cable layout. Timelapse video of assembling the elements completed so far.
Looks great. I feel if some of those big contests supplied video cards there would be an incredible turnout. -Thinking the '965' might be your birthday.
Yes, you guessed right about my birth. Unfortunately, a video card that can be said to be normal can still be bought very expensive, which the sponsor promised last year, unfortunately it has not become anything. I don’t feel like investing, so there are more computers per person in the household than I should.
I'm the same. -One for internet, one for games/music, one for work, one for storage. One to run machines. Multiple systems are necessary when Windows randomly breaks one with it's updates.
Cable sleeving and cablemanagement. I cut out the necessary cable combs from natural and black plexiglass with a laser cutter. The SuperFlower power supply’s 3-row cable layout makes things a little harder, but there’s no impossibility.
