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Skull on Fire

As you know I want to light up my etched flames with LED's.


My train of thought
-Line the edge of the plexi with LED's
-The LED color choice would be UV
-I would like a option where ALL leds would light up and an option where they would flicker on
and off. As to give the illusion that the flames where dancing.

I really wanted to also throw in another option of using Yellow, Orange, Red, Pink, and White
LED's on a dancing circuit to give the illusion of real life dancing flames. Though I am now
thinking about NOT using this idea since I have never messed with this kind of color
coordination before. (What do you guys think?)


Also since this computer is going to be water cooled I wanted to drill a small hole in the
side of any clear top water block and illuminate that as well.




Update Canceled for Tonight
-sorry guys. I did start on the radiator cut out tonight but am unable to post any new info
because I did not bring my camera but used my buddies and well his girl called and
yelled at him for not being home. So we had no time to send the images to me.

I guess you guys will have to wait a few more hours :D
 
Have you considered using purple glow wire to get a more even lighting around the window?

What are the dimensions of the window... I've done this and can tell you if it would work or not :)
 
Wow, those flames look sick! This is very creative. I like it! I also like your idea about the LEDs to give the look of flames. So I did a quick google and found this (search the page for "random" ;))... Not sure how/where to get one, but it looks like it has all the features you'd need: 5 LEDs, adjustability, runs on 3V. Or building one doesn't look too bad either.
 
Big dimensions, I think it would be to long of a span to get the laser into the etching effect to light the flames with an ELwire.

He needs a static and a random flicker circuit for about.. 16 LEDs to cover the entire perimeter of that window. (My estimate)
 
FlowGaming said:
22x10 maybe? forgot exactly :(

Can you show me some pictures of your work?
Click to expand...

Hmmm, that's a bit too big unfortunately...

It's a shame too, it would have looked really nice.

I don't have any pictures on hand, my 4gb SD card decided it wanted to take a dive.

Not really a problem though, as my customers generally don't want pictures of their systems floating around the net... :eek:
 
I really don't think that EL Wire will do the trick.

But here is one single LED in a well light room. There is a very short capture time on this
camera (so no long exposure)
UV_Light_Flames_Test_2.JPG


Here is a link to a video that I took lighting up the flames using only 1x LED
link

Thanks again for the links. I am currently looking at them and getting some ideas :D
Thank you! This help really really does help me out!!
 
I found a really nice work log online about LED's and things should really get rolling

I also will have the top radiator finished tomorrow. (work log to go with it)

Then early next week the thing will be painted. Though no details about what im going to do
to it.
 
Gotta love seeing another 767 owner. Dunno what your watercooling plans are but a 240 rad fits nicely in the front bays with 1 dvd drive and the harddrive caddy without having to cut into the top of the case.
 
I was thinking about doing exactly what you said.

Is that what you did?
can you post pictures?

Though I decided against it because I did not feel that there would be enough air flow into
the case. I thought about cutting flames out of the front door, but could not figure out
how to make them look good enough on paper to attempt it.

So I decided to use cut out the radiator ontop and give the top of the case a little something something :D

Widow_and_Radiator.JPG
 
Well Today was my last day of school!!!!!
Let the full time moding begin :)


Also today I got in
a Tt LanBox Elite, Tt Junior Armor, and a few other parts :)
 
So what about just a few LED colors? Say purple, orange, and perhaps yellow fluctuating to give the flames a real moving look?
 
its very nice dude, thats fantastic! :)
 
sorry guys for the no work log updates. I have been extremely busy with my personal life
and have had very little time for anything else.
 
sorry for the long time with no updates.
I have been extreamly busy.

Will try post as soon as I can!
 
Hay guys, Again I am sorry for the long delay. Things have not been going so well in my life
and then in the same note I have never been more busy in my life too.

I am going to try to get the rest of the case cut and prep it for sanding tomorrow.
Lets see If I actually do some work this time, lol :D
 
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