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Project "Acrylonia"

Projects · Author Stuyo · October 18, 2006 · 23699 reads · ★★★★☆ (30 votes)

  1. Project "Acrylonia"
  2. Part 1 - Hardware
  3. Part 2 - Tools
  4. Part 3 - Materials
  5. Part 4 - The Box
  6. Part 5 - Small electronic boxes
  7. Part 6 - Light and LCD switches
  8. Part 7 - Lower control panel
  9. Part 8 - Fan controller - knobs
  10. Part 9 - Fan controller
  11. Part 10 - Fan controller - attachment
  12. Part 11 - HDD activity meter
  13. Part 12 - Attaching the LCD to the front panel
  14. Part 13 - LCD front panel
  15. Part 14 - Front panel
  16. Part 15 - Hard drive mounting
  17. Part 16 - PSU
  18. Part 17 - Grills and right panel
  19. Part 18 - Putting it all together and some extra elements
  20. Part 19 - Eyecandy
  21. 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.

Part 9 - Fan controller »