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Borderlands will always have a special place in my heart. The co-op with friends was SO much fun!! The D&D DLC was such a good time, and all of the characters I actually scrimped and saved and was able to get a flight to Pandora a few years back. Wandered the waste lands for a bit, had a...

As if a rock-solid PSU wasn't enough?? I've never used anyt other seasonic product besides their PSUs, but i'd be interested in checking them out anyways!

That video doesn't do it justice :) I think we need a better video camera if our cases are going to continue to have rapidly flashing colorful lights. It got a great reception at LANFest this weekend, Moxxi put on a great show. I was able to get the 13 RGB LEDs strung up to the arduino as...

So we were looking to fill the top front of the case with something to cover the water-filing access port, since the donated case was missing the rubber cover. This is just a little matrix of RGB LEDs I made for messing around with, my kid gets to program shapes and animations and...

So my work on the side panels is done for now; now it is Lisa's turn to work her magic on the case and truly make it a Moxxi case. These need to get the 'Borderlands treatment', these things are way too clean!!

Tonight we also laid down the first layer of conductive paint on Songbird's beak. We then made a mixture of powdered graphite and three different acrylic paints. The graphite/paint mix should be a really lumpy mixture, you don't want it too thin or else it won't give you any...

Tonight we nailed down the colors and animation for Songbird's eye. I've been playing with a lot of timings, colors, speeds, fading, up, down, etc. to get these LEDs to mimic the animation in game. The dome of the acrylic causes it to fill with light using the previous animation sequence, so I...

Yeah me too! The mechanical bits will be clay, as well as around the eye, then all painted, can't wait to see it truly come to life! Thanks!

So over the last two nights I've been able to get the acrylic lens mounted to the case using four rivets. I picked up some extra-long aluminum rivets because of the thickness of the acrylic. You can see the tiny little nubs sticking through. I soldered three wires from the top...

We tried a few different thickness acrylic sheets to see the difference it makes when shining the LEDs through them. I got a really nice dome shape with 1/8 acrylic, but when it blinked, it seems to more fade than blink, so we had to scratch that. We got a nice dome shape in some 1/4" stuff...

So I've started working on the touch interface for Songbird, and have been wracking my brain on how to best accomplish this. It has to look like its a metal fixture, but allow conductivity, and not tarnish. So a painted surface is out, and a bare metal surface is out, but what about some kind...

Hi all, starting a new build that we will be donating as a prize at Intel LANFest Sacramento this October. Since we got such a good response from the last Borderlands case mod that we did, we decided to stick with that theme, but change it up a bit. The case is a Cooler Master Haf 932 that...

Here's an updated pic, Lisa got some test paint on to mimick the eye in the game. It is coming along nicely! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56p_7Y7kGxE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaxuT6NPu5U Here's a video of the 40% opaque white acrylic held over the RGB LED matrix. Here's the rough artwork for songbird on the side of the case, and the hole marked for the eye window. Yay, 78mm circle! Cut out a 78mm hole out of 1/2 inch ply...

So I started on the mount for the arduino made from acrylic. I tapped 6-32 holes in it, and used nylon screws to hold it down. Test fit in the case, the assembly attaches with 2 screws from the inside of the case. Here's the assembly mounted. I still need to figure out how to make...

Well artwork on the other side of the case is going to be based on the new expansion, combining the best of both worlds. My wife will post the artwork as it progresses.

Finished! Here's a shot with the side lights on Here's the plexi side

Tonight I tested different surfaces for their abiliaty to give a good difference in capacitance values to see what material would be best suited for the touch surface. I tried copper tape on painted metal, copper tape on plastidipped metal, conductive paint on copper, conductive paint on...

So the eye is coming along nicely! I used Eagle to design a PCB, so i could use the toner transfer method and etch it, but my first revision was too close, couldn't get enough resolution with the printout after ironing it, so i respaced the LEDs, and I'm happy I did! This is a comparison of...

Alright, new mod time! I've got a customer that wants a Bioshock / Bioshock Infinite themed case, I've been really looking forward to doing a Bioshock mod! This will be mostly a paint mod, but we will incorporate 3D effects as well, one being the wrench from Bioshock, and possibly one or...

I sleeved the 3-pin wires for each of the front and back case fans, 2 purple and 1 white, which my wife then braided for me.

Here is the placement of the 2x UV CCFL tubes Hacked away a tiny bit of the case so one end of one of the CCFLs would be held down by the case material, and give it just enough space for the sleeved wires from the other CCFL to hold it in place, along with some hot-glue. I usually hide the...

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Here's a shot of the completed wiring loop. The plasti-dip worked great! This is my new favorite stuff. I just re-did a laptop lid in an afternoon, i think this stuff is more forgiving than spray paint, goes on better, and has a really cool surface. But, it costs more, and you get FAR less...

So I was recently working on a laptop upgrade for a customer of mine, and the parts took a few days to get in, so I was looking at this Dell with this scratched up lid. And just the day before, I was posting in my Ghost in the Shell worklog and mentioned wanting to try plastidip, so i...

The raised panel will have 15 UV LEDs behind it to make it glow. Here's the start on a paper mockup, with circles dejnoting where the LEDs will go. Feeding from 12V, I'll have to wire up five sets of three LEDs + resistor in parallel, so i'll make two concentric circles using purple...

This part was done completely by my wife, it was her first time using a wire stripper, too! We had purple ethernet cable that we frayed, then added extra stranded core copper wire Added some silver sleeving and bits of other frayed wire, applied a bit of fire for a scortched/singed...

Nothing better than a rock-solid PSU powering your rig! During intense battles, it doesn't matter how fast your CPU is, how many HDDs you have in RAID, or how many GPUs are rendering if your PSU belches under load. Enermax have been making PSUs for a long time and I would love to have one of...

Here's the raised side panel, beautifully painted by my very talented wife!

So the case comes with a 200MM fan with red LEDs, but these wouldn't really fit the theme of the case. We couldn't find a suitable replacement, so i resoldered in purple/UV LEDs Came out pretty good!

The plastic pieces of the case are going to be base-painted purple, and we'll add some additional effects on top of that, a little distressing, maybe some artwork from the series/movies. Primer! Purple!

The dremel lets me get into all the tiny little cuts and such, then all the edges will get filed, we don't want any ripped flesh! The 'wires' that are coming off of her will attach to the main panel, so it mimics wiring coming out of the case and attaching to her. My wife has some creative...

Hi all! This is our first case done for a customer! He's a big Ghost in the Shell fan, and loves purple, and we're going to incorporate a raised cut-out and some purple lighting to bring this mod to life. We are starting with a CM Storm Enforcer case. Here's the case next to another...

ASUS continues to tweak for us gamers and overclockers! The new profile settings are a nice easy way to OC without fuss, I especially like the gamer profile, where it will dynamically OC the core based on threads. Cool stuff!

Minecraft is so much more than a game to some of these kids, my kid included. Sure they can build castles, butts, whatever a kid wants to make, but when they start using redstone, pressure plates, pistons, etc, they can really open up their creative little minds! Since a kid doesn't know what...

AMD processor, I think this one was an 1100 320GB SATA HDD, one of the first models available with a SATA connection! No more big ugly data cables, and hello SATA speed goodness! 2GB DDR memory, I got a purple Mushkin kit that fit beautifully with the color scheme, but with the monitor...

This mod I really loved! My wife has "Princess" tattoo'd on her shoulder in a script font. We traced that to use as a template for our next mod. The front of the case had these smoked black semi-opaque covers over the beige bay covers. We removed the black plastic cover, and using the router...

My wife loves fairies. Our wedding had fairies. She's got fairy tattoos. She found this neat car window sticker of a kneeling fairy, so we decided to use that as the design of the window cut. This is a negative of the scan in 1-bit color, so we could then trace that, backwards, to the...

OK So I was able to scrounge up some old pics from the first case mod that my wife and I did. One major requirement for this case: It needed to be portable. Our house was a frequent LAN party destination, and we liked going to LAN parties as well. Space in our apartment at the time was...

Love the resevoir! How is the LED attached? You can find waterproof ones, then you could glue them inside the res, or drill slightly into the RES and stick the tip of the LED in and glue it. In the water would be awesome though!