Hello there, fellow modders.
This project will be my first deep diving in casemod, I've done some "here and there" little things, but not that it could be called MOD.
After some problems and hard times getting my monster-heavy case to LAN parties, I decided to make something smaller, lighter, easier to carry, but beatiful and complete as I think it should be.
So, it came down to the Darkbox Project, being it some sort of cube, made with aluminum frame and acrylic panels, covered with windowfilm and screwed to the ALU frame. Simple, but light and classy ( I hope, ehehheh) It wil be made to Micro ATX boards, but it will fit even a dual rad (WC) on the back, while the top panel will be completely free to future cuts for more WC rads....
Some scketches..... (remember, they are just scketches...) of the early idea I had....
Don't mind the colors used, at first the frame would be made of wood, but people suggested me to change it for the weight issue....
I modified some parts of it, changed the frame idea to ALU, and increased a little inches in the measurements... While trying to keep the "case" the smaller I could make it.
This would be its size....
Here, I was melting my brain to figure HOW to fit the two "U" shaped parts of the case... HOW would be the sliding-down mechanism I would have to use....
So, I thinked that "L" thick corners, with deep cut in the midlle, would do it... in the RED areas of the model
A newer scketch, of the concept with little improved ideas.
Here is the "real deal". this is how it will look when the acrylic panels arrive by mail....
And the measurements, that in fact i already changed due to internal space....
And the issue of internal space that I said above....
260mm of width for 240mm of fans.... I'd need to cut the frame in the front....
Wish me luck!
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Originally Posted by miptzi
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