Project "Acrylonia"
- Project "Acrylonia"
- Part 1 - Hardware
- Part 2 - Tools
- Part 3 - Materials
- Part 4 - The Box
- Part 5 - Small electronic boxes
- Part 6 - Light and LCD switches
- Part 7 - Lower control panel
- Part 8 - Fan controller - knobs
- Part 9 - Fan controller
- Part 10 - Fan controller - attachment
- Part 11 - HDD activity meter
- Part 12 - Attaching the LCD to the front panel
- Part 13 - LCD front panel
- Part 14 - Front panel
- Part 15 - Hard drive mounting
- Part 16 - PSU
- Part 17 - Grills and right panel
- Part 18 - Putting it all together and some extra elements
- Part 19 - Eyecandy
- Part 20 - Mega Lan Party - Plovdiv
Part 13 - LCD front panel
Part 13 - LCD front panel
Nothing new in the beginning - cutting, drilling, sanding� The back side of the panel is made from 3 mm green acrylic. The front side is from 3 mm black, mirrored:
This is the panel, covering the electronics box which will house the LCD and HDD activity meter. The openings are cut with cutting drill bit. The technique for cutting is this: fist, you make holes in the two ends of the cut. Then you start cutting, taking not more than 1 mm of the material at a time. Gradually the material gets thinner and at the end you cut through the whole of it.
Those are pictures from the cutting of the back panel of the electronics box:
At the end we got:
This happens when you don�t pay attention. The bit not only cuts, but also gets rather hot. If you are not careful you can rather deep cuts :)
