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IT'S DONE! I'M FINISHED! And I finally managed to make some decent pictures and 2 videos of the lightning system! Now you can also see the bonus I was talking about, it's a matching keyboard and mouse of course :D And without further babbling, here are the final pics...

I put in the LED strips today. Sounds like a 5 Minute job, but it actually took quite a while because I had to hide the over 20 metres (Yes I'm serious) of cable attached to them. As you can see I'm slowly starting to do the last steps here, I think everything will be finished by next weekend...

Progress, Progress! I finished making the casing for the RGB Controller and the other circutry stuff I made for the lightning system, which, after a lot of problems and problem solving finally WORKS by the way! Like I said before, I used one of the harddrive cages for the casing and it works...

Good news everyone! My mod isn't dead and neither am I, I just had a lot of stuff to do during the past weeks and there were also quite a few setbacks regarding the mod. Sometimes I was too lazy to write an update because I only did little things here and there and didn't think they were...

I did, this happened 3 days after painting that piece. I don't know exactly what caused this but next time I'll be even more careful ..

If anyones wondering why there are no updates, I kinda sorta ruined the paintjob on the frontplate and have to do it all over again Sad I can't really continue until that's done and for that I need new paint which is going to take a few days to arrive so yeah, I'm kind of stuck right now...

I've got good news and bad news today. Good news is, the painting is finished and everything except the right sidepanel looks pretty awesome. The Bad one is, the right sidepanel didn't quite turn out the way I had hoped. I'll explain with pictures: First I'll finally explain how I was...

I spent the whole day painting today and have made a lot of progress. I've got a bunch of pics so no reason to bore you with unnecessary text ;) First I had to bring out the dremel one last time to make a big cutout in the front door. Since I'm not using the white plexi anymore it had to...

Got some more painting done today. First off were the top and bottom bars, first with primer and then 2-3 coats of black, the molotow paint drys out very quickly so you don't have to wait 24 hours to do the next coat which saves me a lot of time :) Then I painted the Power/Reset buttons...

Yo! I painted the first layer of black on some of the parts a few hours ago and holy crap, it already looks SO much better, especially the frontplate with the logo. The paintjob also came out really well, the structure is perfectly even and the color is just perfect. It gets better...

My paint arrived! I don't know how popular Molotow are internationally, their products are mainly used for graffity but because of it's durability, this stuff is awesome for modding too. And a lot cheaper than the stuff you get at the hardware store. Frist, I had to transform my balcony into...

Update! Yay! I prepared the rest of the window stuff today, specifically the plexi that goes in. Since I still have a lot of the white plexi I thought, why not just use some of that for the window too. Like this: And it gets better: I'm going to paint that mesh black too, I think it's...

Got some work done today! I modified the top part so that the air from the radiator has somewhere to go. I had this planned from the beginning but never got around to it. Well, today was the day. This area had to go: 10 Minutes later: And after the usual filing and sanding...

And you're gonna get it! I finally finished the last of the 3 LED Strips today. I can't stand LED's anymore, 3 days of soldering this stuff was enough for me. Well, at least it works and I finally got it over with.

Good news! I think I found a solution for my spreading-the-light-behind-the-logo problem. But first, pics of todays progress (which isn't much). I didn't feel like building another LED strip today, but no problem, theres plenty of other stuff to do, mostly little things. I prepared the top...

Sounds interesting, but how exactly would it work? I thought fiber optics are basically just little tubes that can "transfer" the light from one spot to another, but my problem is that I don't know how to spread it evenly in such a small space. But now that you mention it .. I remember taking...

Thanks :) I made the second LED-Strip today. Because of the experience from the last one I didn't screw up as much so this one was done a lot faster ;) Still took me a few hours, even if those things sure don't look like it, but soldering all those LED's together and squeezing them in...

Got some more work done today. First I built something to put the waterpump on later (which is going to be an Aquastream XT). I had originally planned to just put it at the bottom of the 5,25 drive bays but then I spontaneously had this idea today. I used two aluminum profiles which are...

I actually thought about using one of those round CCFLs because it would be the perfect shape and size to illuminate the logo. The Problem is, there just isn't any space in or behind the front door where I could put it. There's only about 2-3mm between the inside of the door and the drive bays...

GOD I HATE THIS ------------------------------------------------ Now comes the shitty part: Making the circuitry for the lightning system. I'm not much of an electronics guy, the main reason I decided to build this myself is that "real" RGB-controllers are pretty expensive and can do a lot...

SO DOES THIS ----------------------------------------------- But what about the front! Well, the filing and sanding and torturing myself with sharp objects continued for another day and then I finally got this glorious piece of metal: After filing, before sanding: After sanding: Remember...

HANDICRAFTS --------------------------------------- So much for the first steps. I then started making a number of stencils so I could later precisely put the shapes on the material for the Sidepanel and front. Those little knives are very precise. I used to suck at this pretty bad in grade...

Hey there fellow modders! I'll be posting this in 3 (or 4) seperate posts because I've written such a flood of text that it just wont fit into one! The case I'm using is a Cosmos 1000 which I love for a number of reasons, the design being the most important one obviously. The only real downside...