Hey p0Pe, I totally agree. I really have to get me some green color to flood the visor.
Here is a little X-Mas Update:
I made new clamps for the switchpanel.
This is the cabeling of the switchpanel. Little fiddly to solder...
This is a mounting bracket for a 6pin connector. You can see it in place in the next pic.
Thats the cabeling with connector:
And the micro-switches that sense if the switchpanel reached its endpositions:
And finally the finished panel, ready to connect to the electronics:
I soldered a circuit that stops the panel in the endposition until you invert the motor voltage.
Thats it for today. I hope I can work more on the Orb during the next days.
Thanks for reading. Comments are allways welcome :)
I wish all the modders here at TBCS a Merry Christmas! :santa:
Squelsh
12-24-2007, 09:21 PM
FrooP
Re: The Orb
sweet 8) hope youll make it to your deadline and ill see that thing at the contest 8)
12-25-2007, 09:40 PM
sabooya
Re: The Orb
HAHAH, I want to see more :(
12-27-2007, 07:00 PM
|NQ|Squelsh
Re: The Orb
Hey sabooya, you get your update :) This is my work from yesterday.
I could not find any good mesh for a good price, so I killed an old beatbox (:
The mesh is big enough for my needs. But that has to wait some days.
I still try to assemble the parts that are needed for a good picture to send to some sponsors. So I started a new version of the feet:
Produced lots of saw mill waste:
And a nice rounded edge that only needs little polishing:
I can't do one kind of work for a longer time, so I hopped back to the switchpanel and finished the microswitches and the cabeling:
From that I went on to the HDD activity light. That's a piece of plexiglas with a red and blue LED that alternate when HDD is active. Same thing will be done for DVD activity on the other side of the baseplate.
Next toppic, the DVD-bay-cover:
Taped it against sawdust, then drilled mounting holes:
The cover is made of 3 layers of wood that are shaped so they fit the baseplate. With a saw I caved the wood to make space for two LEDs:
Those LEDs will illuminate an 1mm gap around the DVD-bay-cover when the bay is closed.
Last thing was the upper sphere. The glued pieces:
I don't have much spherical plastic left, so I had to work with lots of small parts:
Testfit:
And why did I all this stuff :think: Because I wanted to illuminate it :up:
That light-string will be replaced by a red one and be covered by plexiglas.
I think I can go on with that work tomorrow.
Hope you all had a nice X-Mas. See you soon,
Squelsh
12-27-2007, 08:10 PM
isunktheship
Re: The Orb
Oh man that's cool looking! I wish I knew how to motorize computer doors and install monitors etc. in cases!
12-28-2007, 02:33 PM
Helix666
Re: The Orb
why, oh why, have I not subscribed to this sooner?!
I think you deserve a +rep for this. Definitely.
12-29-2007, 05:24 AM
|NQ|Squelsh
Re: The Orb
Yippie! Thanx Helix, thats the first +REP since weeks :)
Yesterday I borrowed a GeForce 8800 GTS 512 from a friend to see, if the card fits into the Orb. Because when I drew the plans I calculated with the size of an ATI Radeon card which is MUCH smaller. I really feared that this monster would not fit inside the sphere.
Result: NO chance to put that card inside with the original heatsink :mad:
But relief: With the watercooling block I only have to put the motherboard about 3 mm to the backside so that the visor closes correctly! :D
With the card in my hands I played CRYSIS much to long and did not much modding yesterday. Great game :up: I only finished the feet illumination (sorry, no pics yet)
and the cover for the backside. You must imagine it painted. With this dirty white it looks poor.
01-01-2008, 05:29 PM
rendermandan
Re: The Orb
Nice use for the EL wire. Have a rep on me for sticking with this!
01-02-2008, 09:00 PM
|NQ|Squelsh
Re: The Orb
I need your comments on this update:
I went on with some parts for the inside of the Orb. For that I bended some plastic parts with the oven:
On my first try the clamps made ugly marks:
But the next two tries went all right and are ready for a cutting. The logo is from the NetQuarter.org club. We organize LAN Parties in Germany.
Thats the unfolded mesh from the beatbox I disassembled:
And here I need your comments: Those are tests of three different meshes I can use. What do you think, which one looks better? (I would paint the metal one in black if I use it).
1. Beatbox mesh:
2. Finest mesh:
3. Coarse mesh:
Which one should I use? The one from the beatbox looks cool but it may be too coarse for that small cutouts... :?
01-02-2008, 09:55 PM
DZ469
Re: The Orb
Personally i actually like the beatbox mesh. The other
ones look too small and squarish for the cutout, but idk its up to you.