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Hey I found a few other process pics in my discord server. Fit testing the card reader that also serves as the primary I/O panel since the motherboard is inaccessible for daily plugging needs. Mounting the pelican clips. Make extra sure to use epoxy that is made for polypropylene! Motherboard mounting. There you go. The closest thing to the finished product I've got. 15.6 inch monitor. The bright red and blue connectors are the aforementioned jury rigged power button Hope this is helpful to you, or at least entertaining! /fin
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These pictures are from today when I pulled the main plate out of the garage. It's a bit worse for wear from the rough handling/storage since the rig got disassembled. Everything assembled.To the bottom right of the card reader I cut a small slot so that the fan controller can be adjusted easily. With this many fans in a tight box, I wanted a hardware controller. A temporary solution became permanent because it worked! I used a scrap piece of aluminum sheet and a little velcro to make a hard drive mount. It held 2x 2.5" hard drives. One on either side with the plate sandwiched between them. Fan controller visible to the left. Lastly, this mess. Part of the "finishing touches" I mentioned was going to be depinning and cutting all the power cables to length as well as terminating unused cables and nicely routing everything. Instead, enjoy this pasta. Also anyone that caught the fact that there's no power button: kudos. I simply hadn't gotten around to ordering a button and was jumping the wires until the end lol. 2/2
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UPDATE: So, I got busy and forgot to update this post. The short version is that my buddy ended up getting another job just before we actually put the final touches on this thing and it has been subsequently cannibalized as he didn't need it. BUT: For those of you that might want to do something similar for yourselves, here are the pics and descriptions of what I did to finish it up. Sorry I don't have as many photos (or any of the fully finished product) as I would normally if I had been posting regularly. Without further ado: Using a hole saw, cutting fluid, and a drill that really did nothing to deserve the abuse, I cut the holes for the 80mm fans. Then I used a dremel to knock off any burrs. Just a few more checks for fit. All looks good. Using some black appliance enamel spray, I gave it a couple coats. You can see some additional cutouts here for the power cord and switch, card reader, wifi antenna, and HDMI out. Fans mounted. Card reader mounted. I cut a notch out of the card reader faceplate to accommodate a hard ethernet connection. I also notched out the back right corner of the main plate to pass the cable for the monitor through. Testing the monitor. Pardon the mess. It's part of my process lol. 1/2
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So my gaming buddy got a new job that takes him all over the place for weeks at a time which puts a dent in my quality gaming time. He was going to buy a gaming laptop but he doesn't actually need a battery, just portable power so I proposed a solution: The Pelican Rig. I wanted to build something that would offer power at least equivalent to a decent gaming laptop that was 1) Still portable 2) Cheaper 3) UPGRADABLE in the future. We decided straight off that a Pelican case offered the sturdy handled portability that we were looking for and went with the Pelican 1500. We also decided that we didn't want to drill any holes in the pelican case to the exterior that would compromise the water-tight seal. We wanted a built in screen and, in a perfect world, enough room to store the keyboard and mouse inside. To start, I cut a 16ga plain steel sheet to size. This plate is what the entire computer will "hang" from. It will form the rigid structure that all of the other components will attach to. I don't have a machine shop so this is hand cut with an angle grinder and dremel. This is the first pass before any smoothing/sanding. The plate will be held in by Peli-quick mounts which will be bonded to the inside of the case with a polypropylene approved epoxy. I'm using Makerbeam 10mm extruded aluminum beams for most of the interior framework. They're strong and adjustable. I needed something flat and small to power this guy as I want to maintain as much airflow as possible so I went with a SeaSonic SS-400L1U 400W Single Server Power Supply. The limitation here is that it will only support a single 6pin powered PCI-E video card. That is a limitation we decided we could live with. Testing the fit of the 3 80mm exhaust fans (Noctua NF-R8 Redux) that will be mounted over the PSU. There will be 3 more on the other side as intakes hopefully creating a decent windtunnel. Next up I added some framing to the plate. I used some aluminum angle stock to add rigidity to the steel plate and give me some nice hard-points to mount things to. The screws will eventually be replaced with 1/8th inch rivets and all holes filled but I wanted to keep everything in pieces for now so that changes can be made and drilling mounting holes will be easier. Testing the fit of the PSU before drilling mounting holes. So far so good. More to follow.
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Yeah, but trying to fit a decent cpu fan into this case is lame both because the size constraints and the fact that the PSU fan is directly over the CPU and would be pulling air while the CPU cooler is pushing in the opposite direction (they would be fighting). Also I already have the H90. I'll pick up a blower and trust that the added fans will give me a nice bottom to top airflow that will keep the GPU cool. Its intake will be right on top of the bottom fan so it should be getting fresh air from outside. I added thicker feet to the bottom of the case as well so it has lots of breathing room. Thanks for the input all!
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Yeah, I know. I was just hoping with the added air flow from the new fans that it might be alright. Alas. Thanks for the input!
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I am building a mini itx gaming rig using a Lian LI TU200B and need a little advice on the GPU. Here is the cooling setup currently. I have added a 140mm slim-line fan (intake) to the bottom and an 80mm slim (exhaust) to the top of the case under the handle. I've installed a Corsair H90 (intake) for the CPU on the front 140mm fan mount and the PSU has a 120mm fan (exhaust). I am getting a 980 TI and am wondering if you think I can use one of the open-air coolers or if you think I should stick with the blower style cooler. I would prefer to go open if possible for reduced noise. I would also like to put a little OC on both my CPU and GPU but it comes down to heat I suppose. Thoughts? CPU: Intel 6600K i5 Skylake MB: ASRock Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming-ITX/ac RAM: 32GB DDR4 2666 CORSAIR Vengeance LPX (2 x 16GB) PSU: Silverstone Tek 600W Silver 80+ Silver Full Modular w/short flat cables CASE: Lian Li TU200B STORAGE: 1x HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5-Inch 1TB 7200 RPM 2x Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD
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Thanks man, I don't know about that. There are a LOT of really nice builds here. Mine may well be in the top 5 weirdest though Lots.... Thousands and thousands. If you really want one you can PM me
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Hehe thanks
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Yeesh... I will have to go buy a near death tower to test this mod on then if I get around to it. I found a custom made program that sends processor and ram usage to arduino (a guy had the signals sent to 1mA ammeters that acted as the guages) but I'll have to contact the Arduinix guys and post on their forums to see if they can help me out. Thanks for checking things out for me. I'll let you know if I get it all figured out and running.
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Hehe yeah thanks for the advice. Didn't really know where to start uploading pics. This made me laugh. A lot. Thanks for the slightly (okay extremely) rapey compliment! The next one will have better specs...... Also it'll be more portable so I can actually take it around places. Thanks guys/gals! I had a lot of fun building it (and also a lot of hate and failure induced rage.... *twitch*). More to come, if not on this build then another soon!
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Thanks Tic! I'm currently planning two other projects in the same vein. One of which may be starting soonish.....
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Cool man, I'll keep looking around the arduino forums, thanks for keeping an eye out for me Also now I'm totally going to have to look into that laser engraver....
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I would like to try to use an arduino board with an arduinix to interface with a computer and drive some nixie tubes that would display computer vitals.(HDD activity, CPU load %, maybe temps) I'm an arduino nooooob, just got the starter kit, couldn't hope to program it anytime soon I've seen a quick video of one other person who's done it with ZERO info on the how. Also I'd use different tubes.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWU-r2eiyCM
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Hey thanks! I wish I could say it was me I got it from this user on ebay http://www.ebay.com/usr/mr.neontube. The instructions that came with the clock were nigh unintelligible and it didn't come with an ac adapter but the clock itself is solid and everything seems to be soldered fairly nicely. There are DIY kits available around the web as well so if you have a soldering iron you can build your own. Sometimes you can catch a good price on ebay for tubes. If you're good with Arduino, check out http://arduinix.com/ because holy crap the possibilities with that are endless....... On a related note, if anyone has a really good grasp of electrical engineering drop me a line. I have a really cool idea that I need some help with
