Quantor Posted April 29, 2015 Author Share Posted April 29, 2015 Day 38 (day before Christmas 23rd December 2014) Just in time another cheap ebay-shot was delivered... a BitFenix Recon Controller for my Office-side.... Quickly installed it before the Holidays.... and connected the remaining fans to it.... and checked them for function..... Now all Fanns were connected and ready for duty... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quantor Posted April 29, 2015 Author Share Posted April 29, 2015 Day 39 - One day before New Years Eve... During the Holidays another small package with an order from Aquatuning found it's way.... LED-Stripes, Cable extensions, two AquaComputer "Farbwerk" LED-Controller and some Long awaited Fittings were inside...... But before I started to integrate the new toys into the project I have modified the CPU-Cooler I buyed over ebay as this Piece was meant to be for Socket 1366. So I modified it for Socket 1150... and mounted it on the board.... After that I took care about the newly received Fittings.. Drilling a hole into the right backward desk leg... then inserted the Fitting... and then attached a 90° Angle-Fitting.... Then I've attached a tube-connector on the inside, and installed the wiring between the right side pump and the pump/fan controller... and also installed a Phobya DC-400 Pump... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quantor Posted April 29, 2015 Author Share Posted April 29, 2015 Day 40 Next I was working on the harddrives for the right side.... Using angle to fit them in and using some Kind of rubber to get rid of noise and vibrations.... ...screwed them into position... Then I took my time to get all the cables through the fals bottoms and brought it into Position.... ...installed the Mainboard and wired it... Function-checked the wiring........ And after that I've started to install my light-concept... The LED-Spots were installed on positions where they could not spread the light directly in my eyes when working at the desk.... Function check after the Installation.... And yes... The Color could be changed.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quantor Posted April 29, 2015 Author Share Posted April 29, 2015 Day 41 Not done that much on the project on this day... only prepared the left side false bottom... Same procedure as with the right side... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quantor Posted April 29, 2015 Author Share Posted April 29, 2015 Day 42 As I was preparing the right side fals bottom I forgot to add a hole for the CPU-Power-Cable... So I was forced to add this one now... After that I prepared the left side rear desk leg as I already had prepared the right one... Then I started some work on the back part of desk plate (the one I cut into two pieces)... As I was needing also cable tunnels here I made the decision to use combined tunnels with sensor triggered automatic lifted USB Hubs.... Measuring and marking the positions... Then Drilling the holes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quantor Posted April 29, 2015 Author Share Posted April 29, 2015 Day 43 Back to work at the rear desk plate.... gave the plate a White paint Job... No Need for perfection at this Point as it'll also receive a plexiglas-cover later on... So one pass was enough.... After the paint was dry I've installed LED-Stripes into the channels for the acrylic tubes.... and widened the holes a bot so that LED-Stripes and Acrylic Tubes could pass through together.... Looks a bit like Star Wars and the attack on the Death Star... And to end this day I've made a function-check.... Also checked if the tubes are Fitting into the channels together with the LEDs.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quantor Posted April 29, 2015 Author Share Posted April 29, 2015 Day 44 On that day I've repeated again work which I've done days before on the other side... so not much to comment... Installing Harddrive on the Office-Side... inserting and cabling the false bottom.... installing the Motherboard... Also installed LED-spots on this side (made no Pictures of it as it also was already covered the other day...) After I've moved the hardware from my Office-PC to this side I was in Need of at least one working PC, so I've decided to temporary tube this PC with normal tubes and one old pump laying around..... So I was able to partially using the desk while still working on it.... This is how it was looking at this point of the project..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quantor Posted April 29, 2015 Author Share Posted April 29, 2015 Day 45 This was a very busy day... and it started out again with receiving a small package.... With the best greetings from Austria I've received some SSDs from Angelbird for my project.... So after the unboxing I've installed them immediately into the project....... Now it was time to work a bit more on the lightning-concept... So I've started to install additional LED-Stripes and the very cool "Farbwerk"-Controllers from AquaComputer.... But before I've installed them I've tested if they're working properly.... After I've stopped playing around with them it was time to find the right spot for installing them... After many thoughts I made the decision to install them behind the front plate, next to the Controllers of the Touchscreens..... So I made some notches into the middle-wall for connecting the cables comming from the LED-Stripes in the back... The cables now running from back to front are in unseen Areas... so noone can see them.... After finishing I've played around a bit more with the Controllers..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quantor Posted April 29, 2015 Author Share Posted April 29, 2015 Day 46 On this day I was working on some kind of side project... THIS IS NOT THE FINAL VERSION - IT WAS ONLY AN EXPERIMENT TO CHECK IF THIS WORKS OUT FOR ME !!! I was in Need of a place and a way to integrate all the Switches from the build-in components like light-Switches, Touchscreen-control, aso. So I tried to build a Switch-oanel by myself.... I've used an old 5 1/4" Slot cover and made some holes for the Switches into it... What I wanted to do was building some sort of foil-keyboard.... Then I screwed the Touchscreen-controls on it.... Then I placed the whole Thing on my scanner and made a scan.... I've opened the scan with my graphics-suite and marked the Buttons.... ....then I've added a Background, put one of my personal project logos on it and labeled the buttons... ...printed the whole Thing.... ....cutted it out..... ....and was laminating it with clear tape..... Then I've attached it with double-sided Tape to the 5 1/4" Slot cover.... and as a last step also screwed the light Switches to this construction.... and attached it to the desk....... and ready was my personal "Heaven"-Control Version 0.1 Alpha.... The whole Thing worked that good that I made the decision to redoo it more professional later on and to add it to the project.... As said before: At this point it was only an Experiment.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quantor Posted April 29, 2015 Author Share Posted April 29, 2015 Day 47 ... or why there a days you better should stay in bed.... Every project is comming to a point where everything is starting to go wrong.... Day 47 waa my personsal Desaster-day... At this day I was starting to work on the acryllic tubing... First all was going good... but then Murphys Law was hitting me with it's whole power.... For working on the desk I removed the main desk plat and placed it aside of it leaning on our Terrarium... I was in our kitchen bending the tubes... Meanwhile the son of my Girl-friend came home from School placing his shoes at the bottom of the stairs leading to the first floor to his room... right in the middle of the floor conecting the kitchen with the living-room.... It happened what should happen... I came from the kitchen wanting to enter the living room... was not aware of the shoes... falling over them and struggling to keep my Balance... As a result I tried not to fall to the ground and grabbed after our Terrarium but hit the desk plate... the plate was falling and hitting first one of the touch Screens and then one of my sparkling water columns... completly destroying both pieces.... Arghhhhhhhh..... This would have been the point to immediately stop all works on the desk and go straight to bed... But NO... after cleaning up the mess I wanted to work a bit more on the project to make Progress.... And Murphy was hitting me again.... As my Office PC was working at this time with a temporary tubing as described in one of the former Posts I was forced to empty parts of the Loop for working on the acryllic tubes... To do so I've placed the connected Keyboard at the bottom on one side of the desk... I went into the kitchen to modify one of the tubes and meanwhile two of our cats were playing around "hunting" in the living-room... As my BIOS was set to "Wake up on Keyboard Event" it happened what should happen... One of the cats was running over the Keyboard, triggering a boot... As the Loop was only partly emptied by me and some tubes not connected the Motherboard and Processor were flooded and short-circuited... Killing the Motherboard (ASUS Striker II Extreme) and my brandnew graphics-Card Sapphire R7 250 Ultimate.... However the processor (Intel Core2Quad Q6600) of the Office-PC survived... Strike !!!!!!!!! So I was forced to replace the whole Setup vs. a much older Striker Extreme Board laying somewhere around and vs. my old gaming graphics, an HIS R9 280x... As this old Striker Board also has had some defects (not addressing all RAM-Banks and USB-Ports) I've replaced it later by an ASUS Maximus Formula Special Edition Board... So don't wonder if from now on different boards are visible on the photos.... Some last photos of my original Setup: Back to work... On the same day all this :) happened I've installed a Phobya DC260 Pump into the left back leg and also a WLAN-Router.... One floor above my NAS moved into place... Then started to bend the acryllic tubes... First I made the two real big ones, which should start at the bottom of the rear legs... moving up to the desk plate... making a 90° turn into the channels of the backward desk plate and at the end another 90° turn going into the desk.... All in all the tubes have a length of 1,45m each... For bending such a Long tube I've moded the needed Silicon inlay a bit.... Same again with the 2nd tube.... Short check if the tube fits into the project and if I had worked exactly enough... As these were done I've continued bending some more tubes..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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