Hi m0nkeyb0y. I am lucky enough to have a laser cutter at my school so i do all the CAD work myself and go in after school time and can do whatever i want with the laser camWe also have a CNC milling machine that i will be cutting out the aluminium on.
Fantastic project
Thankyou very much colossous!
Update #11
My watercooling sponsorship arrived!
Thankyou so much to aquatuning! http://www.aquatuning.co.uk . Thanks especially to Pascal for putting up with me!
Here we go...
Black Ice GT120 lite with 45 degree compression fittings on. These things are so cool, they rotate!
More rad
Fractal Design 60mm fan
Cable ties + bases
Fillport with compression fitting
Low profile straight compression fittings
45 Degree rotary compression fittings
90 degree rotary compression fitting
Mah lovely black nickel plated compression fittings!
Bitspower T-block with compression fittings
Couple of tube clamps for the block
Momentary dot-illuminated vandal switch
Primochill UV Pink Dye Bomb
Distilled water
2 pairs of UV cathodes
Tygon 3/8" ID 1/2" OD tubing
Scythe S-Flex 1600rpm
Apogee drive top
3/8" barbs on the drive
This thing is so cool!
45 and 90 degree fittings on my custom 9300-itx waterblock
Shipment from Rapid is here, bringing with it a multitude of goodness in electronics!
Some cheap sleeve and heatshrink
500 resistors (i'm not joking!)
2 and 3 pin molex housings/headers
Transistor
Capacitor
MIC502 chip. These things are SO TINY!
No that is not a giant key!
Capacitors, diodes and potentiometers
Put some dye in my distilled water. ooooo!
Test fitted the top of the PC (fan grill, acrylic, rad, fan). The rad is literally just as far over as it can possibly go. Another 0.5mm and it would be out of the edge!
From the top
Layers
Fillport in place
Fan/rad assembly
Removed the 9300 heatsink from the motherboard. Messy thermal paste underneath!
Installed duniek's waterblock
Installed the Apogee Drive! It just fits!
How close the parts are!
And finally, PWM Controller V5! I think it is done! Wait, no, just seen a problem! Time for V6...
This is seriously impressive. You mentioned you were using school tools - is this a project towards a qualification?
No this is not towards qualification. The last case i made was though.
Update #12
Marked out the PCBs on a blank PCB sheet
Cut out on the band saw
Printed the PCB layout onto some acetate sheet
This is the UV box. You put the acetate on the PCB (copper side) and stick it in there to cook for 4 minutes. The UV loosens the copper that you want to remove (i.e. the bits that aren't black on the acetate sheet)
After the UV box, you stick it in sodium hydroxide + water solution (10 parts water to 1 part sodium hydroxide). This removes some layer or something (i dont really know lol) but it is essential.
Bubble etch tank. This has ferric chloride in it and removes the copper. The ferric chloride is heated and bubbled.
Bam!
They both came out perfect first time! It's a miracle!
Drilling station
Was damn close to the edge of the board drilling those!
Two completed boards
And... Tada! Completed one of the boards
Lots of headers
Molex 4 pin connected and sleeved
Bottom side
Mah name
Attached the CD drive to its plate using flooring-grade double sided tape (i managed to stick my shoe to the floor with this stuff and couldnt get it off!)
Perfect fit!
Here is the assembled drive bay. My first time attempting capillary bonding!
Where the CD plate connects to the hard drive bay
Bottom-up
Perfect capillary bond
Screwed the two parts together!
More
The protective layer will be removed
Thanks for reading!
Awsome build there m8, such a lucker to have CNC and Laser cutting at your school im remember making a PCB in the exact same way as that^^.
again: awesome!
Wish I had access to those tools!
Thankyou guys
Yeah looks really good now!
Hi 5 for borrowing school equipment
Haha yeah borrowing school equipment is great! I brought loads home for the holidays
Update #13
So this week i have been perfecting the fan controller. I made another board because i screwed the first one up so much.
New board complete. This is CyberDruid's one (on OCN).
Much neater soldering
Oooo green!
Lots of LED headers
And some more
I went into school and lathed some motherboard tray standoffs. Tapped them and screwed onto the mobo tray
The rubber foot rests ontop of the PSU and is there to stop vibrations
The pillars use m3 screws to attach on
Tada! I had a play with the CNC milling machine and made one of the aluminium panels. It took ages though, and made such a mess! The edges are also a little rough. I am in discussion with some people about getting it all laser cut (the school laser cutter is only 30W so can't do metal)
It took about an hour to do just one panel and then an hour prepping and cleaning up.
Test fit!
It fitted perfectly, expect the standoffs were 12mm too tall, so i took them into school and cut and sanded them down and retapped them.
The GPU will have 1mm inbetween the fan and side panel
And finally i leave you with news that there will be a revised fan controller! This will be better suited to minime (in terms of dimensions) and also functionality.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWt8wvORdvk
Oh and have a video about the fan controller
Amazing. I'm really looking forward to this.
~'Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence--those are the three pillars of Western prosperity'~ Aldous Huxley
Wow, looks really awesome!
Thanks guys!
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