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
Part 8 - Fan controller - knobs
Part 8 - Fan controller - knobs
These are the knobs for the fan controller. How it is made I described in a separate article: (http://www.modreactor.com/How-To-Guides/how-to-make-diobus-fan-control-guide.html).
First I cut the clear part from 6 mm acrylic:

Then I cut the non-transparent part from 3 mm black, mirror acrylic:

Glue the two parts together:

Some testing of the lighting::



Extensions were needed to mount the knobs to the switches. I cut them from the 6 mm clear acrylic:





Some more extensions were needed:

When the fan controller is ready, the clear part will be lighted with green diodes.
