Update #10
Left side acrylic panel cut and engraved! Aqua tuning sponsor's logo.
eBuyer logo etched out
Holes for the GPU fan. Around 180 holes!
More shots of the engraving
The entire left side panel. There is a version of this without the sponsorship logos so when the time comes i can submit it for MDPC (MDPC doesn't take PCs with sponsorship logos on).
CD drive base. This will be glued onto the cd drive (please don't kill me! I swear it is the only way for this to work!)
Right hand acrylic panel
Top acrylic panel with holes for rad and fillport.
Motherboard tray (i told you it was complicated!)
Here we have some orange UV anti kink coils. These things are great!
SATA laptop optical. This thing actually isn't the right cable, and it annoys me greatly, since it took 3 weeks to ship from hong kong! I have no idea what it is, but it isn't a normal sata optical.
4gb Crucial Ballistix Tracer 800mhz - £20 from someone on OCN!
It is finally here! My nickel-plated-custom-made-insanely-awesome 9300 chipset waterblock for the zotac 9300-itx wifi motherboard! Thanks Duniek! The craftsmanship is stunning...
Perfect base
Latching vandal switch (blue LED)
Pins for...
24 pin and 4 pin connector
Approves!
Some mesh from MNPCtech! Thanks Bill!
http://www.mnpctech.com/moddersmesh.html
Hard drive bay. Not glued yet
Test fit of CD drive, cd drive base and hard drive bay
This is the design for the aluminium front surround. The 2 larger holes are the power switch and the light switch, the two smaller ones are fan controller potentiometers. The slot hole near the bottom is for the CD drive. Those funky designs wrap around the components
And finally, V4 of the fan controller! This now measures 83mm x 33mm and is gonna be awesome! I have ordered all the parts for it. I will start PCB manufacture maybe on friday.
Thanks for reading!