Thanks everyone, I'm quite excited to be getting back onto this one, never taken a break this big from a project before but I've never done a project this labor intensive before so it figures.
Dropped the ball on the daily updates, dermatitis has come back due to prematurely stopping applying the ointment but I hope it goes away ASAP & I will try to not let it prevent me from making new progress.
Luxury jumbo power switch because I had to use my pinky to switch Stealthlow on (16mm vandal switch) big 40mm ball based on how vandal switches work,
I wanted it to sit flush through the layers so had to countersink the insides of the layers with files.
Designed & made a bunch of replacement fan controller knobs because the stock ones were plasticky & boring plus I wanted to see if I could even make them with being so small.
Made the rear IO/expansion motherboard tray pieces for the ATX & the mini-ITX with low profile expansion card size, drilled expansion card mounts & used hot soldering iron to sink brass thread inserts into the holes.
These motherboard trays were remakes, previous ones were 1mm off with not accounting for the IO shield that comes with motherboards.
The assembly for the marble button.
Fixing the button assembly in place & fixing more panels together.
Squigly on bit-tech pointed out the spindicator LED mod to me & Riekmaharg2 on bit-tech really helped me by making the electronics part of the Spindicator leaving the LED soldering to me, I'm a total newb on electronics but seem to be good & happy with that fact other than knowing a large chunk of my imagination is untapped potential so I blag myself I'm happy about being an electronics newb, it works somehow.
Simplified the wiring a bit by making a copper washer I drilled holes for the negative pegs of the LED's to go through & I later caked liquid electrical tape over it all making it look real messy but insulated it all to prevent short circuits, cut a bunch of acrylic discs & pasted transparent vinyl's to them so I can select the colour with whatever looks best which I won't know for sure until final assembly.
Spindicator in action.
Few videos of it made with a kodak pointy shoot with 720p high fuzzyness, not high definition
want to upgrade my canon eos 1000d to a 550d so I can shoot nice clear video because videos can say a lot without saying a word & I like that a lot.
Made a case for the spindicator electronics which only just fits in next to the HTPC PSU.
2 more to go.
