Timpelay Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 I'm Tim Timpelay Malmborg from Sweden. Last year I managed to finish at second place with my tower mod SL600Mi. Such an honor and source of confidence to carry on building. This year I'll compete in the scratch build category with my project SAT. Project description: SAT is a project that will be built mostly from hardware and water cooling parts. They will be assembled together using an acrylic disc design creating this satellite structure. To make it complete I will attach side mounted foldable radiators acting as solar panels. What's important for me this year is to design and build a project that stands out regarding technical solutions. This includes how the harware and cooling make sense in all places as design and function will work together. Unique design, creative solutions, foldable radiator array, extreme cooling capacity and enough lights to be seen from earth when in orbit! My intention is to stay away from any game theme or brand focus and just go full Timpelay mode, enjoy! Specs: ASUS ROG STRIX Z390-I GAMING INTEL CORE i7 8700k ASUS ROG STRIX RTX2060 SUPER SEASONIC PRIME TX-750 SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS 500GB G.SKILL TRIDENT Z ROYAL GOLD 16GB Cooling: Bitspower water cooling and Cooler Master fans & PWM/RGB Hub. Notable facts: The material cost (excluding hardware and water cooling) of this project is around $50 in total. Acrylic sheets, PLA for printing, M4 screws nuts and washers. Acrylic is cut by laser but would be possible to do with a jiggsaw and time. Cables are made from leftovers. Allmost everyone have a friend with a 3D-printer who can print my simple but smart hinges. Sponsors: Great thanks to ASUS ROG, Bitspower, Seasonic, G.Skill & ofc Cooler Master! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timpelay Posted December 4, 2020 Author Share Posted December 4, 2020 Here we go! First off doing some modeling or the hardware I'll be using. This for space studie and how to fit everything. My satellite design will consist of a circular tube in the middle with all hardware. The tube will be completely open without any covering panels on the sides. With all parts in the size of this thing is certain and I can work myself from here. There will be alot modeling work and I would like to do it that way to see how I can solve all connections and stuff. Usually with casemods I go with the flow and measure myself from case and parts I design. But with this I really need to focus on how to get it all together as a model before starting my fabrication. As already seen in the pictures the motherboard tray was the first part to design. My idea is to design the parts to work together and make the structure stable with integrated locking mechanisms in the parts themselves. This will make the building process a bit tricky as the structure will not be fully stable until almost everything is assembled. Not something you would like on your PC ready for upgrade but with this it will be super cool when finished! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timpelay Posted December 7, 2020 Author Share Posted December 7, 2020 Already when I got the first idea for the satellite I knew I had to make it somewhat modular to actually represent a real satellite. Moving parts in a PC can be cool but I mean things should just not move because they can. They should move if it serves any kind of purpose. There's alot of different satellite designs but mine is based on the previous shown tube central core and I will now make it complete with "solar panel wings" attached to the sides. The wings will be foldable and give me storage-mode and work-mode. For storage the wings should be folded for a small footprint and for work they should be fully extended. Just like a real satellite. As for the entire project I will continue to fully focus on building it using the hardware and cooling as working parts of the design. Therefore the wings will be build of radiators and fan assemblies. I will use a quad setup of 240 mm slim radiators to build two wings. They will be active cooled by the special Cooler Master Masterfan SF240R ARGB which is two 120 mm fans combined into one unit. Gonna show them more later when it's time for assembly. The radiators will be foldable together and to the side of the central tube. This means I will have one kind of hinge setup between the radiators and another design attached to the tube. The hinges between the radiators themselves is something I've come up with myself. It is based on eight separate 3D-printed parts using an actual 12 mm hard tube for water cooling as core. This 12 mm tube will not only be part of the hinge, it will also be the water passage between the two radiators. Storage-mode seen from front. Work-mode seen from front. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timpelay Posted December 7, 2020 Author Share Posted December 7, 2020 Lets print some hinges and see how the tolerances work out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timpelay Posted January 1, 2021 Author Share Posted January 1, 2021 To mount the radiators and fans together with the hinges I had to make custom brackets. They will be made of 4 mm acrylic and need to house all mounting points for the movement and locking mechanisms. I've made a couple of revisions and designs to try out how to best make them with good air flow, low weight and enough strength at the right places. This is the current pair for each side. I will produce them and try how the work out in the real model. A 3d model is always good but due to tolerance and variations in hardware measurements there's need for prototyping! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timpelay Posted January 5, 2021 Author Share Posted January 5, 2021 How about this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timpelay Posted January 12, 2021 Author Share Posted January 12, 2021 Mobotray ready! Four corner locking supports and middle support just for vertical load. This means the tray will be hold in place and secure by itself when mounted to the outer discs. The motherboard will be raised a bit higher for 24 and 8 pin cable management underneath it. All 7 discs produced! Two of them will be split in half because of the mounting solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timpelay Posted January 12, 2021 Author Share Posted January 12, 2021 As I mentioned earlier the entire PC will be mostly built by water cooling components. That's why I use fittings and tubes for connecting the discs to eachother. The runs on the sides will be just for stability but the one on top will also run coolant in it. Core design is finished and now features a bottom mounted D5 pump underneath the motherboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timpelay Posted January 13, 2021 Author Share Posted January 13, 2021 The amount of fittings.. So I'll use brass tubes and fittings for the space-material-look a satellite needs. As always when I'm doing brass or copper tubes I prepare them all in acrylic first to get the length right. This is the fittings and tubes used only to connect the discs and build the "case" structure. This means short tubes exactly the same length. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timpelay Posted January 15, 2021 Author Share Posted January 15, 2021 I figured the structure will need some reinforcement as all the short pipes and fittings will provide some slack, even when fully tightened. Therefore I will run continuouse hard copper tubes inside the brass tubes where ther will be no water flowing. Brass tubes is approx 11/12 and fittings around 9.8 mm on the inside. This means the surface treatment probably takes it from a machined 10 mm. They need some work to fit the copper tube inside. My step drill was perfect for the job and by doing the fitting from both sides to 10 mm step on the drill, the pipe will be a supr tight fit but clear through. By doing this the structure will get super stable and the insert pipe will be a simple install when the case is all assembled! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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