Project: MiniMe - Miniature Watercooling!

[Nitrix]

Looking swwet mate keep up the good work!

[oliverw92]

Thanks very much Nitrix

I would like to introduce my 3rd sponsor for this project, MNPCTech!



They will be sponsoring me with 1 of these:



and a set of these:



Thanks very much to Bill

[oliverw92]

Update #8


Stuff!



Sponsorship from MNPCTech arrives! Thanks Bill!



Anodized black aluminium feet









Anodized black aluminium fan grill This thing is awesome!









And yays bill sent me a free t-shirt





e-sata backplate. 99p off ebay! What a deal!





250W 1u power supply



Soon to be sleeved





This psu is actually tiny...



I bought myself a present Razer Deathadder









Oh what's this... another present Razer Lycosa Mirror Edition









Touch sensitive buttons. Can turn the keyboard lights on/off/just WASD, control media player and volume



Keyboard approved





Back to the project! Decided to do some work at school today, these are some mock-ups i did on the laser cutter in black polystyrene sheet.







Cube. These are 1cm cubes made on the laser cutter.









They are very very small



Setup with the new keyboard and mouse





Still approves



Omg where the sun go!













Back to the mod! I adjusted the sketchup model a little to make the gfx card fit well



Fan controller V2





CAD design for the left hand acrylic side. The text will be engraved, not cut. The rest of the black lines are cut, the green is reference for the aluminium frame



This is the right hand panel. Will be the only plain one



Here we have the top of the box. Fillport hole top right, radiator mounts in the middle.



That is it for now! Time for some hardcore CAD design on the back, front and bottom.

[oliverw92]

I would like to introduce my newest sponsor, AC Ryan! They will be sponsoring me with some materials like Aluminium sheet and CCFL's and such things. Thanks Guys!

[oliverw92]

Update #9

I am very pleased to announce my latest sponsor, AquaTuning!



They are going to be my watercooling sponsors. Watercooled-pcs have lost contact. I am not sure what has happened. THanks so much to Pascal for bearing with me!



My AC Ryan sponsorship has arrived! Yay for awesome brushed aluminium!







Slimline CD Drive







USB backplate



More CAD work is done.

Black line = cut
Green = reference
Red = engrave

This is the bottom plate for the slimline drive. The screws are so dam small for the drive i have decided to glue an acrylic plate to the bottom of it and then screw into the plate.



The aluminium base plate. The circular things are the feet, top left block is the psu, top right small block is the fan and fan mount, middle bottom box is the cd drive and bottom right is the HDD bay. You can see the amazing clearance of 1mm between the hdd bay and the PSU!



Fan mount



HDD Bay. There are 2 of each of the bottom pieces



This is the motherboard tray. I promise all the crazy holes will make sense in the end!



Finally, the masterpiece is unveiled! The completely redesigned fan controller and ccfl/led power board. This is the control hub of all the lighting. The board measures 8cm x 4cm.


So not a very big update. I have ordered the acrylic, should be here tomorrow. Then i can cut up some acrylic!


Oh wait i nearly forgot something...




Custom made waterblock for the 9300 chipset FTW! Thanks so much to duniek, can't wait to get some money so i can pay him and get it shipped to me!

Ok that really is everything now!

[xpdualcore]

Now getting really jealous!!!! Nice waterblock btw.....

[oliverw92]

Thankyou very much Yeh it is awesome, custom made just for me

[oliverw92]

Update #10



Left side acrylic panel cut and engraved! Aqua tuning sponsor's logo.



eBuyer logo etched out



Holes for the GPU fan. Around 180 holes!



More shots of the engraving



The entire left side panel. There is a version of this without the sponsorship logos so when the time comes i can submit it for MDPC (MDPC doesn't take PCs with sponsorship logos on).



CD drive base. This will be glued onto the cd drive (please don't kill me! I swear it is the only way for this to work!)



Right hand acrylic panel



Top acrylic panel with holes for rad and fillport.



Motherboard tray (i told you it was complicated!)



Here we have some orange UV anti kink coils. These things are great!





SATA laptop optical. This thing actually isn't the right cable, and it annoys me greatly, since it took 3 weeks to ship from hong kong! I have no idea what it is, but it isn't a normal sata optical.



4gb Crucial Ballistix Tracer 800mhz - £20 from someone on OCN!





It is finally here! My nickel-plated-custom-made-insanely-awesome 9300 chipset waterblock for the zotac 9300-itx wifi motherboard! Thanks Duniek! The craftsmanship is stunning...





Perfect base



Latching vandal switch (blue LED)



Pins for...



24 pin and 4 pin connector



Approves!



Some mesh from MNPCtech! Thanks Bill! http://www.mnpctech.com/moddersmesh.html



Hard drive bay. Not glued yet





Test fit of CD drive, cd drive base and hard drive bay





This is the design for the aluminium front surround. The 2 larger holes are the power switch and the light switch, the two smaller ones are fan controller potentiometers. The slot hole near the bottom is for the CD drive. Those funky designs wrap around the components



And finally, V4 of the fan controller! This now measures 83mm x 33mm and is gonna be awesome! I have ordered all the parts for it. I will start PCB manufacture maybe on friday.

Thanks for reading!

[oliverw92]

Update #11

My watercooling sponsorship arrived!



Thankyou so much to aquatuning! http://www.aquatuning.co.uk . Thanks especially to Pascal for putting up with me!



Here we go...



Black Ice GT120 lite with 45 degree compression fittings on. These things are so cool, they rotate!



More rad



Fractal Design 60mm fan



Cable ties + bases



Fillport with compression fitting



Low profile straight compression fittings



45 Degree rotary compression fittings



90 degree rotary compression fitting



Mah lovely black nickel plated compression fittings!



Bitspower T-block with compression fittings



Couple of tube clamps for the block



Momentary dot-illuminated vandal switch



Primochill UV Pink Dye Bomb



Distilled water



2 pairs of UV cathodes



Tygon 3/8" ID 1/2" OD tubing



Scythe S-Flex 1600rpm



Apogee drive top



3/8" barbs on the drive



This thing is so cool!



45 and 90 degree fittings on my custom 9300-itx waterblock



Shipment from Rapid is here, bringing with it a multitude of goodness in electronics!



Some cheap sleeve and heatshrink



500 resistors (i'm not joking!)



2 and 3 pin molex housings/headers



Transistor



Capacitor



MIC502 chip. These things are SO TINY!



No that is not a giant key!



Capacitors, diodes and potentiometers



Put some dye in my distilled water. ooooo!



Test fitted the top of the PC (fan grill, acrylic, rad, fan). The rad is literally just as far over as it can possibly go. Another 0.5mm and it would be out of the edge!



From the top



Layers



Fillport in place



Fan/rad assembly



Removed the 9300 heatsink from the motherboard. Messy thermal paste underneath!



Installed duniek's waterblock



Installed the Apogee Drive! It just fits!





How close the parts are!



And finally, PWM Controller V5! I think it is done! Wait, no, just seen a problem! Time for V6...

[oliverw92]

Update #12



Marked out the PCBs on a blank PCB sheet



Cut out on the band saw



Printed the PCB layout onto some acetate sheet



This is the UV box. You put the acetate on the PCB (copper side) and stick it in there to cook for 4 minutes. The UV loosens the copper that you want to remove (i.e. the bits that aren't black on the acetate sheet)



After the UV box, you stick it in sodium hydroxide + water solution (10 parts water to 1 part sodium hydroxide). This removes some layer or something (i dont really know lol) but it is essential.



Bubble etch tank. This has ferric chloride in it and removes the copper. The ferric chloride is heated and bubbled.



Bam!



They both came out perfect first time! It's a miracle!



Drilling station



Was damn close to the edge of the board drilling those!



Two completed boards



And... Tada! Completed one of the boards



Lots of headers



Molex 4 pin connected and sleeved



Bottom side



Mah name



Attached the CD drive to its plate using flooring-grade double sided tape (i managed to stick my shoe to the floor with this stuff and couldnt get it off!)



Perfect fit!



Here is the assembled drive bay. My first time attempting capillary bonding!



Where the CD plate connects to the hard drive bay



Bottom-up



Perfect capillary bond



Screwed the two parts together!



More



The protective layer will be removed



Thanks for reading!