Knex case started

[shadowbreaker513]

Had an idea for a knex case, and decided to sacrifice an old gateway to the project. Not too bad so bad I don't think. Tell me what you think

Frame with cards, mobo, RAM, processor, and power supply installed. Getting the psu to perch over the processor like that without slipping was a bitch.

Here is a little mount that I fashioned for the on switch and LED lights. Cut my fingers a few times trying to get the thing out of the gateway case.

Hard drive enclosure I fashioned. Wasn't easy to get a no-slip hold on the hard drive, let alone a configuration that would fit properly.

This is still ongoing and open to any suggestions or comments you guys have. Tell me what you think.

 

[compslckr]

knex are awesome, i used to play with them for hours

 

[DryFire]

knex always hurt my fingers after a while, but definately fun to play with.

I'm surprised it'll hold the wieght.

 

[theHeat]

I'd be careful of melting the K'nex with those hard drive temps. Other than that, looks nice!

 

[Statik7]

most impressive, somehow i think that isnt too good of an idea but hey its a good idea

 

[KrakenGuy]

Oh. OH. This should be interesting. I would have done it a different way though... This might be a tad weak for everything... I wouldn't worry to much about heat. It takes A LOT of heat to melt k'nex.

 

[Morphes]

omg you went through with it.... good luck

 

[ProphetSix]

OK, that's [H]ard.

Overclock it yet??? I wanna see melting plastic.

 

[KrakenGuy]

Crap... If I had an extra mobo lying around I would probably attempt a mod like this myself. I might just make a case for kickers though... I'll give you some [H]ard examples tonight dude for your case.

 

[thisisglen]

Lego was always so much better

Glen

 

[KrakenGuy]

I experimented for a few seconds on ideas. The pictures you see here are mere examples. I am not gonna finish this because its not my mod.

Ok, nevermind. The photo's won't upload. Anywas, I should already give notice that I have a lot of k'nex at my disposal (4 rollercoaster sets, big ball factory, various miniature sets inbetween.) Our friend building the case has a weak fram as I can see already. I suggest for the mobo, hooking the 360 degree white connectors up with little green rods and then supergluing stand offs into the things. If you ask me, that would make a strong mobo frame. Also, are you making this like an HTPC? Cause I think a Midtower k'nex case would be even better =D.

 

[shadowbreaker513]

If you could look under it, that's how the motherboard is sitting. I made a frame with white round connectors and white sticks under it, using blue ones as cross braces. I'm also probably going to redo the whole section around the cards, so I can more easily mounse the hard drive and optical drive.

Also, no superglue. This is going to be made entire of knex with no outside materials.

 

[Quanticles]

It would be sweet to do a full size case with a DFI SLI and water cooling. You could put an [H] logo on one side and an AMD arrow on the other side.

 

[ikellensbro]

I built a much better (IMO) support for the mobo on mine, that I said in the old thread, but I havent done anything for about a week, as Im thinking of doing some ghetto >$60 watercooling to go with the knex case I posted in the community ghetto watercooling thread about what Im thinking of doing, I just really need to figure out what I want to do for a pump/reservoir.

Basically, I have a plate kinda thing using a ton of the white circle pieces conected in a standard rectangular shape that is ziptied to the mobo (old K7S5A w/ an XP 1600+). Then, I'm thinging of mounting the hd & cd drives under the mobo mounted on frames, with the heater core Im thinking of using filling up the rest of the space under the mobo, and the pump/reservoir to the side or of the mobo or on top of the unused pci slots.

Great job on yours!

 

[altec]

ARBYS

 

[Whatsisname]

nah, they can handle a lot of heat.

I'd be careful of melting the K'nex with those hard drive temps. Other than that, looks nice!