Project "Acrylonia"
- Project "Acrylonia"
- Part 1 - Hardware
- Part 2 - Tools
- Part 3 - Materials
- Part 4 - The Box
- Part 5 - Small electronic boxes
- Part 6 - Light and LCD switches
- Part 7 - Lower control panel
- Part 8 - Fan controller - knobs
- Part 9 - Fan controller
- Part 10 - Fan controller - attachment
- Part 11 - HDD activity meter
- Part 12 - Attaching the LCD to the front panel
- Part 13 - LCD front panel
- Part 14 - Front panel
- Part 15 - Hard drive mounting
- Part 16 - PSU
- Part 17 - Grills and right panel
- Part 18 - Putting it all together and some extra elements
- Part 19 - Eyecandy
- Part 20 - Mega Lan Party - Plovdiv
| My fourth project. Small lan-party box. Acrylic. Lighted in green. Easy to carry. And light too! Dimensions: 13x26x40 cm. Well, that's for now, fore more info, read on! :-) |
Project 'Acrylonia'
The idea of making a small lan-party box has been haunting me for a while. Long before finishing my previous mod, I wanted such a case. But my current needs were for desktop PC and also didn't have good ideas for small case. After finishing the abovementioned case (Prewar Techware: A Fallout case mod) it went to the first of the two lan-parties in Bulgaria in '05 (without me, I had an university exam) and won first prize . Then was the time I decided I needed smaller, easier to transport case. Besides I already had second computer and it didn�t have any case at all.
I also wanted for a long time to build entirely acrylic case, so I thought: 'Why don't I combine the two ideas and build a small, acrylic box?' But I didn't want simple transparent case filled with computer parts. I was strongly influenced by Orac3 by G-gnome (http://www.bit-tech.net/modding/2004/06/09/orac3_part5/1.html) and wanted to do something like scaled down version of it. As the work progressed the concept changed a lot though.
Having in mind these guidelines I prepared the basic requirements for the box:
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To be as small as possible
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To be entirely acrylic
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To have as much extra electronics as possible
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There must be no spare space in the box
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And yet again - to be as small as possible
Some pictures first:






Let�s the mod begin!

