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[Project] PrometheusCU
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10-28-08
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Now onto part pictures: *click for big*
__________________AMD Phenom 9850 BE  Asus M3N-HT   SilverStone Strider St1200 1200Watt   Corsair Dominator RAM   The 120mm Fans  The MO TyphoonGX tri-colour  
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After a few hours with the dremel and jigsaw... then many more with a set of hand files I turned my lian-li case into the below:
__________________ The details: First I cut out some material from the drive bay area  I then mounted the Alix 2c1 embedded linux firewall after installing the mini-PCI wifi-n card and the 1GB compact flash  A cutout was made to allow space for the lan ports on the motherboard tray. Also a box was cut from the drive bay to allow for the pump to be mounted.  I haven't yet built the pieces that will guide the airflow; but i have installed the fans that will cool the Alix board.  1/4inch slots will be milled on the panel and dividers will be constructed to guide the air out the slots. Until then, this is how it stands.  Here is the Pump   And the mounting bracket put into place  Two 120mm fan holes were cut from the top of the case   A large rectangle was removed from the front panel to make space for the 7" touch panel LCD      
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I then built another temporary bracket to hold the PSU in place. This too will be replaced with a CNC machined bracket.
__________________    After cutting a piece of copper plate that will 'compression' fit into place. I used double sided foam tape to afix the slot load dvd-rw.  I then installed the slim-DVD to SATA adapter.  The drive is then squished into place, and holds suprisingly well  Then the pump is mounted to the bracket, this foam is also temporary and will be replaced with black neoprene  We then come to the Pico-ITX unit that will live in the drive bay   Here is is installed   I then cut apart the Corsair Dominator fan assembly and made some temporary mounting brackets, the final brackets will be CNCd as well.    The zalman fan controller that I'll be using  Here is the fan contoller installed  The final fan assembly and some glamour shots    I also got a Lian-Li card reader, it will be stripped of its case by the end of this mod  
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Here is the radiator I'll be using:
__________________  The cutout I made, where it will live. I still have to make mounting brackets for it.     This is where the hard drive bay will mount   But first these need to be installed. Again these are only temporary, for fitting purposes, the final peices will be made from copper plate and will be CNC machined.      Now we can suspend the drive cage    And finally we come to the below images. This is how Project PrometheusCU sits right now, waiting on delivery of some of my watercooling components.   As it stands I'm at about 30% complete. Hope you all enjoy the work... I've poured pretty much everything I have into this case - in terms of both skillsets and money. Please feel free to leave comments, crits, suggestions. Tune in soon for more!
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Let us begin.
__________________I've finished the rad mount prototype. I started with a 40"x40"x1/8" sheet of used aluminum. This panel was once used in the fabrication of Carbon Fiber sheets - the aluminum panel are used to help form the carbon panel. The carbon is cooked in a heated press at ~40,000tonnes. After a short while, about 100 carbon panels, the aluminum develops imperfections and heat stains - It's then thrown away. My Dad runs the Carbon Fiber plant so over the years I have developed a rather large collection of these aluminum sheets.  After a bit of rough cutting with the trusty jigsaw I did some light filing to clean the cuts.  Then onto bending  The final product, minus the holes.  Once that was complete I checked the fit - luckily the "measure 5-times cut once" methodology continues to work for me.  A side view, note also that the final bends will be much more precise. I plan on having 'V' shaped groves milled into the copper plate where bends are needed to ensure accuracy.  Then I had to drill precise holes in the the chassis.  From there I did a test fit. (Note that the final design will include slots for airflow, I'll post an illustration later today.) Almost perfect, I eyeballed the holes in the rad mount prototype and a couple were off slightly. No big loss though because the final product will be machined precisely.  Thanks for reading! More to come.
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Another update for you guys, but there will be more to come this weekend.
__________________I've finished the tray prototype that will both house the radiator, and lift Prometheus 3.5" off the ground. We again start with some aluminum plate. As you can see I've marked out the areas to be cut.  Like the above post, I've put the jigsaw to work.  After using the dremel to crudely score the bending lines I put the piece in my bending brake. This is what I came up with  A close-up of the joints.   Then a test. Perfect Fit!     And here is how it sits right now. In fabricating these parts I've realized that the final design will need to seat the radiator about 1/4" lower. As you can see from the pics, I haven't left enough room for the front rad fan to breathe. But that's why I made these prototypes... to narrow in on design flaws such as that.   That's all the fabricating I'll be doing today, tune in later I'll have some illustrations posted. Thanks for reading!
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Go Yankees!
 
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Saw this @ XS a couple days ago, very nice work.
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A small update for the masses.
__________________Here is an idea of what a couple of the copper components will look like. From left to right - Front Facade Panel, Top Exhaust Fan Grill, Radiator Grill/Mount. I'll post the designs for the rest of the pieced some time tomorrow; along with some of the illustrations that I'm going to have engraved throughout the case. black = cut grey = engrave dashed = bend *click for supersize*  Added a a 'jagged edge' to the front facade. Since the touch panel LCD covers the traditional front air intake I will need to mill slots in the side of the front panel to act as air intake. The jagged edge will make space for these intake slots. The slots can be seen in the initial design concept illustration Small update Black lines = cut Grey lines = engraved Dashed lines = bend Here is my concept for the plaque replacement on the back of the chassis  I've also completed the concept for the drive bay enclosure (the piece seen taped into place in this image). I modified the original design to encase the lower 3.5" drive bays, and allow for a fill point (nearly forgot about that). *click for supersize* 
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Here is the accumulation of all the final part concepts that I'm going to be milling from Copper plate.
__________________(as always, click for supersize) 1: Drive Bay Enclosure - Left Side  2: Drive Bay Enclosure - Right Side  3: Authenticity Plaque  4: Front Facade  5: Bottom Tray/Radiator Housing  6: Parts List Plaque  7: Radiator Fan Grill/Mount  8: Top Fan Grill  9: Front Lower Tray/LCD housing  A small text update: I've ordered a number of small aesthetic copper bits off eBay - everything from copper ribbon wire to fishing rod parts. I may have gotten a bit carried away because I've started bidding on a 1987 Buick Grand National, we'll see if I win tomorrow afternoon. I've also ordered 100x5000mcd White LEDs and 100xLED chrome holders/mounts. With those comes the need to convert the chrome mounts to copper, so I got my hands on a case of 6x8oz cans of Krylon Premium Metallic Copper Brilliance spray paint - it too has yet to arrive but I've read that it looks just like copper plating. This weekend I also spent a few hours in Rhino, modifying my CAD drawings to incorporate some of the revisions suggested to me by the machinist. Hopefully I'll have some precision aluminum prototypes cut this week. I expect delivery #2 of 4 of my watercooling parts tomorrow, along with the GTX 280ssc cards - upgrade compliments of eVGA. The AquaComputer components will be sent out to me Monday (hopefully). I'm in the middle of correspondence with an Indian manufacturer of Copper Braided Sleeving for the tubes and wires. I hope I've finally found a supplier in the form of Sree Lal Guru Industries, despite their reluctance to provide such a small quantity. If anyone knows of a NorthAmerican source for "Bare Copper Braided Sleeving" willing to sell small quantities, please link me. The last remaining unordered component will be the MIPs 4 RAM Cooler. I can see light at the end of the tunnel now. I'm on the lookout for a several LED controllers that will support 100 LEDs, something that will allow me to create a custom light show in and on Prometheus... if anyone knows of a source for such a product please let me know... it's proving -like so many of the parts for this project- very elusive. Tune in soon, and Thanks for reading.
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