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I sort of laser etched my window and it's awesome

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Over the weekend I completely rebuilt my computer (and upgraded motherboard/cpu).

 

Because the MSI Krait just looked so damn sexy, I repainted my case from black/silver to White/Black. I also painted two of my ram heatsinks, all my wires, and my power/reset buttons.

 

Last thing I did today was take my new, shiny acrylic window down to the Mechanical Engineering shop and laser etched the Krait into the window... AND IT LOOKS AMAZING

 

Plus, I got to learn how to operate the laser etcher. I might be addicted to laser etching now...

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That's pretty badass.

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Now all I need to do is put in some white LEDs! I might make my own strips though. My room mate and I are both modding our PCs and we want to make our own LED strips

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Woh, nice!

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I'm jealous. :P

Love black & white builds. :wub:

 

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Now that is a really good case mod.

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That looks really badass. Once you put in the white led's it will look even better.

 

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Once you put white LEDs in there it will look amazing :D

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get some uv reactive paint and line the laser etches with it so the leds inside give a little extra glow to it 

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get some uv reactive paint and line the laser etches with it so the leds inside give a little extra glow to it 

Wouldn't I have to put a UV light in?

 

Wait.. a UV light in a black and white build... that could look really nice :D

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Oh damn. That is sexy. I just can't even. Must do this to my case right now brb buying a laser.

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How was the etching/engraving process?

 

 

My friend took a time lapse of the process on his Galaxy s5 but he's asleep. I might post it tomorrow.

 

Overall, the etching process took a bit more than an hour. That includes setup time and figuring out how to use it (On my first try I cut straight through my sacrificial acrylic. It was like a lightsaber!).

 

The actual etching took about 50 minutes, but I think I used a poor path for the laser. (I used a dot method, similar to how a printer prints things, back and forth from left to right). If I were to do this again, I would etch up/down instead and it would take probably 30 minutes. It would be faster because the Krait is slimmer left to right than up/down, so the laser would be able to etch more acrylic per pass in the up/down orientation.

 

TL;DR: it was freaking awesome to watch

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I have that same mobo, and was thinking of doing this exact same thing, looks sexy as fook :D plus I will be airbrushing on the other side panel on my H440 :) you can check it on my build log :P

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I have that same mobo, and was thinking of doing this exact same thing, looks sexy as fook :D plus I will be airbrushing on the other side panel on my H440 :) you can check it on my build log :P

 

Definitely etch this. Or anything. All my future PCs will have some sort of etching on it.

 

I'm trying to find more things I can etch right now, lol

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Definitely etch this. Or anything. All my future PCs will have some sort of etching on it.

 

I'm trying to find more things I can etch right now, lol

I will definitely etch this, do you have a template or something you based it upon?

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My friend took a time lapse of the process on his Galaxy s5 but he's asleep. I might post it tomorrow.

 

Overall, the etching process took a bit more than an hour. That includes setup time and figuring out how to use it (On my first try I cut straight through my sacrificial acrylic. It was like a lightsaber!).

 

The actual etching took about 50 minutes, but I think I used a poor path for the laser. (I used a dot method, similar to how a printer prints things, back and forth from left to right). If I were to do this again, I would etch up/down instead and it would take probably 30 minutes. It would be faster because the Krait is slimmer left to right than up/down, so the laser would be able to etch more acrylic per pass in the up/down orientation.

 

TL;DR: it was freaking awesome to watch

 

Ah so it was hand controlled. Not like 3D printing?

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looks great. for some reason it took me 2 minutes to notice that its a snake head...

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Ah so it was hand controlled. Not like 3D printing?

 

no, he just said how he set up the path for the machine to follow

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I will definitely etch this, do you have a template or something you based it upon?

Yes I do.

Here it is! I'm not selling it. The Krait logo belongs to MSI. Blah blah

 

Happy etching :D

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Wow, really nice job! It all looks fantastic! :D

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Where you find a laser etcher? 

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There's one on my campus that was free to use. I know, I'm lucky :P

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