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Hack the Planet!
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looks great... I will definitely watch this one...
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Awesome idea, can't wait to see the worklog on this one.
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I added a video to the first post. Unfortunately you can berely see the water in the Visor. I think I have to render it again...
All right, lets move on. In this post I show you the first version of the basement-plate. I spent some thoughts on making it from fiberglass but dropped this thought. Now it's made from pressboard.
With a milling cutter mounted on a kind of compass I milled the circels from the pressboard. At one point, I got this funny piece. To me it looks like a rocket
I really annoyed my neighbors, because the mill is horribly loud. And I needed some time for the circles:
This is the top of my sandwich, where the motherboard will be mounted on.
I plan to mill in an area exacly as big as the motherbord and 3mm deep so only the chips will overlap the wood. I think this looks much better, when you look into the visor.
Next two sandwich layers with a space for the DVD-Rom:
Glueing it together (fortunately the glue takes only 15 minutes to harden):
The result (top down). The piece of plexiglas you see is going to be mounted in the slits left and right to the DVD-Rom and will be illuminated by LEDs.
Wood is really a nice material to work with (even if it's pressboard): All you see above took me one afternoon. If I tried to make this piece of fibreglass, plasic or something I would have needed some days. I hope, that after filling, sanding and painting it will look like plastic.
The filling:
And after sanding and filling and sanding and filling and.... Smooth like plastic!
Here you see the slits for the illluminated plexiglas.
As you have probably seen in the sketches from my second post, the whole case is rotated about 15 deg but the motherboard lies horizontal. So I need the mounting for the lower hemisphere glued to the base in this 15 deg angle.
So far no problem. BUT: If I had cut this mounting circle with the mill in the same way as the other circles and fixed it with 15deg to the base, it would have left me a big gap...
My first try to solve this, was a selfmade 15 degree mounting for the mill. But this didn't work. So I milled the circle 5mm bigger and carved the form I needed by hand. This was annoying: Carvin, holding it to the baseplate in the right angle, marking some spots, carving them away, holding it to base and so on...
Finally I could glue it:
And that how my first version of the baseplate looked like:
I don't know, if you can tell from the pictures. But I made a huge mistake, and glued the outer ring in an angle much bigger than 15 degrees
Another problem was the filling I used on the wood: The mixture was wrong and it did not harden right
So, thats why I say "first version"... I had to tear it.
In the next version, the outer ring will be made of some harder wood, so that the screws fixing the hemisphere to it have a better hold. And hopefully the filling will harden out right!
I am curious about your comments. Perhaps you come up with an idea to build this baseplate in a much easier way! It would be welcome. If someone can offer me an industrial mill, where I can carve this whole thing from one big block of plasitc, it would also be welcome
Tomorrow I will upload the pictures and the story from the Visor.
Last edited by |NQ|Squelsh; 07-21-2007 at 01:49 PM.
Reason: Spelling is black magic...
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Re: The Orb
Damn, looks good event though you messed up. But that is all part of modding, taking a chance and trying something, an if it doesn't work, learn from you mistakes and push on!!! +rep
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- The hinges:
As the visor should be able to rotate for opening and closing, I built two plexi-pieces where the water flows through in the center and then gets in the right direction in the visor:
- The glueing:
For that I bought special plexiglas glue in an onlineshop. I came in two componets: The glue itself and a hardener. I ordered some pipettes too, to be able to mix the doses right. But I had to recognize, that even the pipette was not the right tool for measuring 0.3 millilitres! Thats the amount Somewhere I had read that about 24 waterdrows make one mililitre, so I used 8 drops of the hardener and it worked.
Piece by piece the parts found their place:
After each piece I had to wait one day for the glue hardning.
Here you see the duct where the water will flow upwards:
Here you see one corner with the hinge and the water-duct inside the hinge.
I was quite happy, that I got so far without breaking any parts
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one thing is for sure, that dude got skill
so +rep for creativity, machinery work and the whole everything great stuff(wondering why im writing this in english, because were both german)
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