Scratch Project: Veritas

[anachlores]

Did you hand etch the light pipes/circuit design?

And i'm growing to love your cyborg angel logo. It looks great on that block.

[NFC]

Shame to hear about the drill press. Try here.

Thanks for the link, I will be sure to shop there to get this thing back in order

Did you hand etch the light pipes/circuit design?

Dremel etcher for the win! I really am P.O. that I am missing so many pictures of the process. It's one of the reasons I'm rushing through this log so I can start on my next....

And i'm growing to love your cyborg angel logo. It looks great on that block.

I'm not an artist. I wish I was, though I was happy with how that angel turned out on the block.

[NFC]

Last stretch.


Two fans but only one motherboard header:





Here is a picture of the "backside", it still has some sticky residue on it from the contact paper stencil I had made, if you can forgive that:



This is what it looks like in the dark under UV:



It was supposed to be pink, like the rest of the case theme...but oh well. I know for next time. (Not that I will ever do pink again =P)

I had very little space in the system and nowhere near enough 4 pin connectors on my modded PSU, so I had to wire the fan controller for the deltas directly to the PSU:




since everything was designed to fit to the milimeter (my projects that came after this I planned for some extra slack) I had some trouble getting all the parts in. The sleeving and wires for the PSU were measured and cut in such a way that they would make a nice bend without extra material getting in the way, so the sleeving in this picture looks like it is coming undone a little, but it will all get pushed back in:



More fitting parts and making measurements for various braces:


Most of the wiring was run in channels under and next to the motherboard:



Some of the wires for the fan controller and 12 LEDs in the bottom had to make this ugly cross under the CPU though:


Since the reservoir had to fit in the aluminum socket I made and the tubing lengths had to be precise, it was a bit of trouble getting it in:


Everything finally made it in. I should mention this assembly took place in the final hours (after being up for 40 hours) before my plane left for Washington. I was feeling a bit rushed at this point. =)



The drives were incredibly difficult to get in because of the space constraints. They had to share a 5"x2" space with my LED board, tons of LED wires, and the wiring for the GPU. Yes, the sleeving came undone as I battled them in. Yes, I fixed it after they were in, as you shall see:



I needed someplace to run some additional LED wires--this cut was made much earlier of course:


SSDs, led board, GPU, and wires all stuffed in the small little space:



Getting the stupid power switch in was also annoying:



It's a blurry picture, but it finally made it in there, LEDs and all:


This is what it looked like before I rushed to the airport, where I would assemble the last pieces during my layover:

[NFC]

These final shots were taken on my cell phone, so they are not very good to say the least. The system was not very popular at PDX either, which I understand considering how different it is, and that it does not have the polish as my other pieces. I wanted to do a log here though because the design was unique and is not something you normally see on XS.

You can view these and a few more on my website. I'm glad this ones over, I have cooler stuff to post here next.

[Geezer]

You don't see too many custom jobs that make use of texture as part of the design. Nicely done