Project-First mod (need a window design)

[Vaio]

Looks nice!

How about "Platinum Dragoon"?

 

[Bboy_Jon]

well my case will be painted chrome

i wanna have a more original name but i cant think of anything lol

 

[Bboy_Jon]

*UPDATE*

Yup finished the head (sorta) and started an arm and got one done

but it looked funky cuz the whiskers? on the dragons chin were too dam big so i bondoed and im gonna try it again

 

[dj_2004]

shouldnt you have been cutting on the other side? looking very good btw!

 

[Bboy_Jon]

what u mean? cutting on the inside or the outside?

its better to cut on the inside because if u scratch somethin no one will see, as compared to cutting on the outside

 

[dj_2004]

Ahh thought you would get cleaner cuts if you cut on the outside, but you do have a point.

 

[Bboy_Jon]

it shouldnt matter really, with a file the cuts will get cleaned either way

 

[Bboy_Jon]

dam my dremel is diein!!!!!!!!!!!

At least i think it is, when i first turn it on, at speed 1 it barely moves, and as i turn the speed up it takes a while for it to get up to speed. I was trying to cut (highest speed) and it wouldnt be able to keep it constant. It would jerk and stuff and i dont even think it was running at max speed. So is it dieing or what?

How much are what dremel multipros? im using my dads craftsman rotary tool, and it works better than my dremel, its alot quieter, and all the attachments i have (flex shaft and that one guide thingy) are for it so ya but my dads gonna want me to buy a new dremel so ya.

 

[Vaio]

I have the Black & Decker version of the Dremel, and it has never failed me. A friend of mine borrowed it once, and I got it back packed full of dirt, scraped to death, and partially covered in several hard substances. I cleaned it off(not out, just off), and tried it to see if it worked, and it worked just as good as the day I got it.

Best of all, it's usually about $20 cheaper than a compareable Dremel model

 

[Bboy_Jon]

WOOT!!!!!!!

I won my psone lcd!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8177042979&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOAB:US:6

HAHAHA i bid last night (12 hours left) and i put 33 as my max, came home from school to see if i won. What do ya know i lost, some guy won it for 40 bucks. So ii was sad sorta. Then i checked my e-mail a few minutes later and i got an ebay e-mail. It said the guy who won couldnt pay or somethin so it was like 2nd chance offer or somethin, either the guy couldnt pay or the seller had a duplicate item. But anyways i read the e-mail, it said its available for purchase at 33 bucks, so i was like meh, i cant go over that, then i saw BUY IT NOW!!!!!!! so i was like SH*T and rushed over and bought it lol. Now i gotta pay and ship it to my friends house wooot!

too bad i missed out on one for 31 and less shipping, i feel so dumb cuz i could have won it for that much, but i didnt know i could make a bank account paypal since the seller didnt accept credit card PP

o well

 

[Bboy_Jon]

KK people, bull **** time

I lost my job :sigh:

My manager supposedly said (shes my aunt sorta) that the other people who work there (cooks and all them) are jealous cuz i get payed more than them, 5 bucks an hour plus tip, waiters make 2.50 plus tip lol i get 5

so ya supposdely there jealous, and they didnt like it so she thinks that they were makin me do all the work and stuff. All i did was wash dishes while waiting to clean up tables after a customer left. So if i didnt have dishes to do id end up sitting around and getting payed for doing nothing. SO anyways i think that shes bull ****ting me and just fired me in a nice way what a *****

so ya no more money, she still owes me 25 bucks though

 

[andyl33t]

im just wondering, how will you connect the ps1 screen? doesn't it use that old aerial port to connect it to a ps1? How will you overcome this?

 

[Bboy_Jon]

im gonna wire it to vga, or hook it up through a composite cable

anybody know what resistor for these leds?

http://www.lsdiodes.com/5mm/

blue one, first link in the list, is it 330 or 270ohm?

 

[Bboy_Jon]

*Update*

KK heres from like 3-4 days ago or so

My re-done psx controller port

My door of my bezel, i think ill hot glue the mesh there

Now the dragon is complete (besides sanding it down so its not sharp and making the boy a bit rounder)

thats all for nowz

Help me figure out a window for the bottom part of the side panel

 

[Bboy_Jon]

*Update*

ok well i can get a mirror finish pretty easily, just sand, and then use rubbing compound. you can still see scratches that im guessing is because i used 80 grit sand paper lol, but u gotta be upclose to see em, and its still pretty foggy, i guess because i emphasized sanding more on the middle part

heres some pics

now i only did that little section, i WOULD LOVE to do this to my whole case (but paint the bezel because u cant polish that) BUTTTTTT!!!!!! i used BONDO!!!!!!!! dammit, i used it on the mouth of the dragon and obviously i cant get a mirror finish on that section then. So i have to paint it dammit. It sucks cuz painting will take like 2 weeks. Sanding that lil section to look like that took 30 minutes, and its around the same quality asside from the scratches, but thats because i used 80 grit sand paper dammit!!!

man im sad now that i gotta go paint it

 

[Vaio]

You could always do something like polish a section, and mask it off in your chosen name for the computer, then paint everything, and remove the masking, then clear coat everything.

 

[Bboy_Jon]

*UPDATE*

KK well i cut my side panel up, i guess im done with it (other side panel)

Cut my 120mm blow hole for the cpu

As you can see the blow hole doesnt match up with the hole on the mobo tray

i was retarded and the hole on the tray i didnt measure right, so im just gonna widen the hole on the tray as much as i can. So ill have a big useless hole on my mobo tray

Also...........................

I got my psone lcd on saturday, $30 shipped, 18 bucks plus12 shipping. Thanx Iamgoodyy from Bit-tech.net!!

nice box, lets open it up

Screen and adapter

Woot my desktop

Pshh, i dled along came polly off someones comp at the lan party on friday (18th) and woot its jennifer anistons ***

thats all for now

Anybody know how to hook it up to a molex without buying the Sony car adapter? could i use this thing?

http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=search&item=CLP-59&type=store

So i could attach the part youd plug into the cell phone to the lcd, and what just cut off the cigarette lighter plug and attach a molex?? wouldnt that just be a straight connection to the psu?


edit: BTW the screen isnt hooked up to vga yet, i just hooked it up through composite using the composite cable thing from my camera

 

[Susquehannock]

Cool ... the dragon in the top section is a nice touch. Have something like that in
mind for my left side panel. Except I started with the bottom window first and made it
big & basic so you could see the system guts.

> "Anybody know how to hook it up to a molex without buying the Sony car adapter? could i use this thing?" <

What are the unit's power requirements? ... voltage - amperage?

BTW .... if you are looking to buy another Dremel you might consider an alternative
if you have the cash, and plan to do this kind of work often. The dremel is OK
for small jobs. But it has no torque for larger jobs.
Much better to get a jeweler's flex shaft, or even better use pneumatics (air tools)
Either will take the same tools as a dremel and have multitudes more power. = less time & effort.

 

[Bboy_Jon]

ya, i dont really use it outside of modding and i probly wont mod for a while after i finish

but ya the lcd needs 7.5 v and like 3 amps i think (the adapter says 3 anyways) but ya i tried hooking it up to the 12v and the 7v, dont work. Ill just use the wall outlet

Im gonna mount the adapter and solder wires to the prongs on the plug, and then run the extension cord i soldered to it through the case and plug it in

 

[Susquehannock]

Cool ... looking forward to seeing the finished product.