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First of all I should introduce myself; my name is Chris AKA CJ or cjbaltar.
I have had the pleasure of doing a great deal of work for many modders around the world and have been inspired by the many custom projects I have worked on at my company www.customwatercuts.com!
I felt it was time to introduce my custom case called HydroHedra.
After 6 months of planning and a lot of time and effort in a 3D environment (Solidworks 2004), HydroHedra is born.
Born from Watercooling, Acrylic, and a dash of mathematics HydroHedra has become a great thing.
Internal Hardware trays will be made from the following materials
1/8 transparent Yellow acrylic
¼ transparent Yellow acrylic
Internal Water Cooling section will be primarily made from the following materials
1/8 transparent Blue acrylic
Center Motherboard Tray section will be made from the following materials
¼ clear acrylic
Hardware Stats:
Not all hardware has been determined at this time: What I can tell you is the following:
Motherboard:
M-ATX motherboard for its perfect small size of 9.6 square.
System Memory:
Kingston 1GB PC3200 PN: KRX3200K2/1G
CD-ROM:
Slim laptop CD-ROM
Power Supply:
Sparkle Power 300W Max output power PN: FSP300-601U
All Hardware is subject to change as I seem to find better and better things!
As I am sure you are all aware a picture is worth a 1000 words, here is the conceptual idea in which this project is based.
Starting off with the frame, it is made from 12 individual pieces called pentagons
Here is a single piece I created in CAD.
When you join 6 pieces together I now have half of the frame, seen below.
Once all 12 pieces are joined together the outer frame of the intended case becomes what is called a dodecahedron; even though it may not appear to be symmetrical it is perfect or at least as perfect as math and my CAD (Solidworks 2004) could translate the mathematical formulas. The end result is seen below.
Some people have told me it is a bit difficult to see the shape so below I have created a perfectly flat half frame if you will of the design.
Next the key to making something of this complexity is to understand the angles in which everything is mated together. Below you will see the entire design striped down to all but 3 key pieces needed to create the entire dodecahedron.
And yet again an easier version to see (I think anyway).
It just gets better and better from here, because I though this was fine and dandy in CAD but what about real life What to do????
AAAaaaaa The fine art of Origami, turning mathematical formulas into reality, lucky I have been doing origami for a couple years now. We will get back to this at another time, no worries I just need to take pictures the origami dodecahedron completed and standing.
For now lets continue with the internal tray system that will hold all of the components. I have devised an interlocking 4 tray system that will lock together and sit at the bottom of each hemisphere.
Below you can see how I progressed in CAD to create the trays.
Two Trays completed:
Three Trays completed:
And finally all four trays completed and assembled:
Now I need to create different components and make sure everything will fit within the Acrylic spheres when completed.
Now originally I was doing to disassemble a Normal PSU to power my creation but I have now decided to use a 1U 300W Sparkle power supply PN: FSP300-601U found here [url]http://www.sparklepower.com/proIPCPS_1U2U.html [/url]
But the placement of where the power supply goes did not change and the following images are almost accurate (I have used a digital calliper of do all measuring and have assured myself that the new 1U PSU will still fit perfect.
Just the single panel:
Now added to the entire design:
A nice birdseye view to see the overall thickness of trays and components:
So now that you have seen the trays for the Hardware half domes lets continue through the design and add the motherboard tray that will sit in the very center of the design and will mount the two hemispheres together. Below is an image of the motherboard tray and some captures of the motherboard itself.
I hope you all like it so far I have a lot more to show you! Let me know if you want me to keep going?
I have had the pleasure of doing a great deal of work for many modders around the world and have been inspired by the many custom projects I have worked on at my company www.customwatercuts.com!
I felt it was time to introduce my custom case called HydroHedra.
After 6 months of planning and a lot of time and effort in a 3D environment (Solidworks 2004), HydroHedra is born.
Born from Watercooling, Acrylic, and a dash of mathematics HydroHedra has become a great thing.
Internal Hardware trays will be made from the following materials
1/8 transparent Yellow acrylic
¼ transparent Yellow acrylic
Internal Water Cooling section will be primarily made from the following materials
1/8 transparent Blue acrylic
Center Motherboard Tray section will be made from the following materials
¼ clear acrylic
Hardware Stats:
Not all hardware has been determined at this time: What I can tell you is the following:
Motherboard:
M-ATX motherboard for its perfect small size of 9.6 square.
System Memory:
Kingston 1GB PC3200 PN: KRX3200K2/1G
CD-ROM:
Slim laptop CD-ROM
Power Supply:
Sparkle Power 300W Max output power PN: FSP300-601U
All Hardware is subject to change as I seem to find better and better things!
As I am sure you are all aware a picture is worth a 1000 words, here is the conceptual idea in which this project is based.
Starting off with the frame, it is made from 12 individual pieces called pentagons
Here is a single piece I created in CAD.
When you join 6 pieces together I now have half of the frame, seen below.
Once all 12 pieces are joined together the outer frame of the intended case becomes what is called a dodecahedron; even though it may not appear to be symmetrical it is perfect or at least as perfect as math and my CAD (Solidworks 2004) could translate the mathematical formulas. The end result is seen below.
Some people have told me it is a bit difficult to see the shape so below I have created a perfectly flat half frame if you will of the design.
Next the key to making something of this complexity is to understand the angles in which everything is mated together. Below you will see the entire design striped down to all but 3 key pieces needed to create the entire dodecahedron.
And yet again an easier version to see (I think anyway).
It just gets better and better from here, because I though this was fine and dandy in CAD but what about real life What to do????
AAAaaaaa The fine art of Origami, turning mathematical formulas into reality, lucky I have been doing origami for a couple years now. We will get back to this at another time, no worries I just need to take pictures the origami dodecahedron completed and standing.
For now lets continue with the internal tray system that will hold all of the components. I have devised an interlocking 4 tray system that will lock together and sit at the bottom of each hemisphere.
Below you can see how I progressed in CAD to create the trays.
Two Trays completed:
Three Trays completed:
And finally all four trays completed and assembled:
Now I need to create different components and make sure everything will fit within the Acrylic spheres when completed.
Now originally I was doing to disassemble a Normal PSU to power my creation but I have now decided to use a 1U 300W Sparkle power supply PN: FSP300-601U found here [url]http://www.sparklepower.com/proIPCPS_1U2U.html [/url]
But the placement of where the power supply goes did not change and the following images are almost accurate (I have used a digital calliper of do all measuring and have assured myself that the new 1U PSU will still fit perfect.
Just the single panel:
Now added to the entire design:
A nice birdseye view to see the overall thickness of trays and components:
So now that you have seen the trays for the Hardware half domes lets continue through the design and add the motherboard tray that will sit in the very center of the design and will mount the two hemispheres together. Below is an image of the motherboard tray and some captures of the motherboard itself.
I hope you all like it so far I have a lot more to show you! Let me know if you want me to keep going?
