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Project "Acrylonia"

Projects · Author Stuyo · October 18, 2006 · 23699 reads · ★★★★☆ (30 votes)

  1. Project "Acrylonia"
  2. Part 1 - Hardware
  3. Part 2 - Tools
  4. Part 3 - Materials
  5. Part 4 - The Box
  6. Part 5 - Small electronic boxes
  7. Part 6 - Light and LCD switches
  8. Part 7 - Lower control panel
  9. Part 8 - Fan controller - knobs
  10. Part 9 - Fan controller
  11. Part 10 - Fan controller - attachment
  12. Part 11 - HDD activity meter
  13. Part 12 - Attaching the LCD to the front panel
  14. Part 13 - LCD front panel
  15. Part 14 - Front panel
  16. Part 15 - Hard drive mounting
  17. Part 16 - PSU
  18. Part 17 - Grills and right panel
  19. Part 18 - Putting it all together and some extra elements
  20. Part 19 - Eyecandy
  21. Part 20 - Mega Lan Party - Plovdiv

Acrylonia Case Project Stuyo case mod acrylic plexiglas Acrylonia Case Project Stuyo case mod acrylic plexiglas

My fourth project.

Small lan-party box. Acrylic. Lighted in green. Easy to carry. And light too!

Dimensions: 13x26x40 cm.

Well, that's for now, fore more info, read on! :-)

Project 'Acrylonia'

The idea of making a small lan-party box has been haunting me for a while. Long before finishing my previous mod, I wanted such a case. But my current needs were for desktop PC and also didn't have good ideas for small case. After finishing the abovementioned case (Prewar Techware: A Fallout case mod) it went to the first of the two lan-parties in Bulgaria in '05 (without me, I had an university exam) and won first prize . Then was the time I decided I needed smaller, easier to transport case. Besides I already had second computer and it didn�t have any case at all.

I also wanted for a long time to build entirely acrylic case, so I thought: 'Why don't I combine the two ideas and build a small, acrylic box?' But I didn't want simple transparent case filled with computer parts. I was strongly influenced by Orac3 by G-gnome (http://www.bit-tech.net/modding/2004/06/09/orac3_part5/1.html) and wanted to do something like scaled down version of it. As the work progressed the concept changed a lot though.

Having in mind these guidelines I prepared the basic requirements for the box:

  • To be as small as possible

  • To be entirely acrylic

  • To have as much extra electronics as possible

  • There must be no spare space in the box

  • And yet again - to be as small as possible

Some pictures first:

Let�s the mod begin!

Part 1 - Hardware »