The Orb

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Hey Froop, here is my tip of the day, only for you:
Modding hurts!

Seriously: I have loads of new pics. More to come verry soon!

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All right: Here are the shots I mentioned!

Those are the HDD and DVD activity indicators. One of them on each side of the baseplate. They change the color on activity.

This is a design try for the upper hemisphere. I don't have any airbrush skills, so I have to make it more interesting with some pieces I will glue on.

The following shots were made for the registration at the DCMM competition.

I want some "Yeah" and "Wow" or "Great" posts now

So, I still have to paint the lower hemisphere, make the WC circuit leakproof and work on the electronics. One week left till DCMM. That will be a tight schedule! What pisses me most right now is that I still wait on some electronic components from a sponsor. But the package doesn't show up since two weeks now...

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Tanks you again. But those pics are still not final. I am working on the details and also the red water is still missing.

Here is what I made the last two days (besides the work on the hardware inside):
These are gonna be the details on the upper hemisphere. In a more simple way I will also add some red stripes to the lower hemisphere.

Cut out two holes and cut about 20 rounded stripes from my last piece of plexi-sphere.

Those pieces will cover the hinges:

Everything peeled off aganin:

And painted in red:

Will glue them back on tomorrow.

Those pics show the final cabeling in the upper sphere:
Looks tidy from upside but it's the pure horror from the downside. So many cables and so little room

This pic is for Froop (you can see the second rounded corner of the GF)

More to come soon.

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Did I ever mention that I HATE DEADLINES?!
One more week and I could make it look perfect...

Nevertheless I have a little preview for you.
That is why I needed the stripes on the sphere:

Those cracks are covered by the stripes.

Dont know, perhaps a little too much red:

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Hey everybody! Sorry for that looooong delay but I had to get so much stuff done after the DCMM....
Well, today I managed to copy the last pics from my cam so here is what I got. It's lots of stuff, so there will be more than one post.

First of all, the final building steps:

My USB-I/O-Board did not arrive so I had to solder a manual control box:

I changed the connection between the feet and the radiator part. It consists now of two bolts on each side and an angle bracket. So it can be disassembled without opening the feet:

Last feature I added wan an USB-Hub for all the components in the feet (Webcam, Fingerprint, two USB-connectors).
I stripped it and mounted it in front of the radiator:

Then I finished the detail work on the upper level (cabeling, lights, motor, covers):

Then the horror of assembling the bigger parts began. It took me hours and the hands of all family members to defeat the cables
To do the cabeling on the downside I simply taped the PSU onto a second one so the baseplate was a bit higher.

Here you see the bunch of cables that connect the lower hemisphere to the baseplate:

After fixing some cables I forgot the hot glue gun. The result is quite nice:

Last thing to do was to fill the WC-loop and to pray that everything was waterproof. Of course it wasn't on the first try But then: The pump doesn't work with full throughput in that moment and the result is this nice serpentine.


All that happened in the night right before the DCMM and little after midnight Orb and Haro were ready to be packed into the car.

4 hours of sleep later I picked up my mate and we drove the 400km to Dortmund...

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Thank you a lot p0Pe! You are so damn right about the work.
I made a big mistake and filled the visor-reservoir only 1/3 and so the upper part got fogged
Well: I became 7th at the DCMM and I don't think I am a sore looser... But those guys in the DCMM jury could not even imagine how hard it is to build something that has any 90deg angles...
That shouldn't imply by no means that the winners don't deserve their ratings. Their work is of outstanding quality. But the comments of the jury made me think a little about their qualification.
However: Thanks DCMM-Team for your work. I had a nice weekend and it was a lot of fun to talk to the other modders. And of course to see Froops UNIT4 in real

Here is a pic of Orb and Haro at the DCMM stand:

I will perhaps add some pics of the other mods to Froops thread in the chatterbox.

Next to come are some shots of the Orb on my desk @home. See you tomorrow.

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Okay. Here are the latest pics I made yesterday. This is the Orb doing it's work as a gaming and working machine.

Filling up the visor:

Some pics of my desk wich NEVER looks that tidy IRL

From top:

Open cover:

Visor-motor:

Masked

CD-Tray open:

CD-Tray closed:

GFX-Cooler:

The USB-Connector in the foot:

Working-place (yeah, I know: the desk is too small):

Well, thats the end of this log.
Thanx again for all your comments and +reps (more are welcome ).
When my electronics and display stuff arrives I will open up a new thread on modding the casecon

Cya,
Squelsh



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