Making a plastic case

FatFishMonster · 7 Nov 2011 at 17:13

Making My own case

Please chang title to "making my own case"

Higuys

So for my design for a fully plastic case has gone out now.
So my current line of thought is modular/skelly kind of things and would really like people to post their thoughts on what sort of shapes and features they would like to see as for my work I need to show I've asked people

So please post your thoughts

Obviously if I do go ahead and make one I'll create a project log

PhillyDee · 7 Nov 2011 at 17:19

See through acrylic cases already exist. There is a market there, but its very very small.

bremen1874 · 7 Nov 2011 at 17:19

Transparent cases were briefly popular several years ago.

The went the same way as kipper ties and drip-dry nylon shirts.

FatFishMonster · 7 Nov 2011 at 17:34

PhillyDee said:
See through acrylic cases already exist. There is a market there, but its very very small.

I know they already exist, hence the idea lol but the temperature thing is what I liked about the idea.

pgi947 · 7 Nov 2011 at 17:37

I wouldn't rubbish the idea all together, it just needs some styling, I would say no to transparent casing though, look at some of the more niche cases for inspiration like the Level 10, LANboy and skeleton.

A high gloss (finger print magnet) plastic, thats slightly open may benefit more? and look better in the process.

Jay794 · 7 Nov 2011 at 17:38

Surely acrylic is a bad idea for a case, plastic retains heat

FatFishMonster · 7 Nov 2011 at 17:40

Jay794 said:
Surely acrylic is a bad idea for a case, plastic retains heat

I did think of that but I thought fans would aid there

Metal is a no no for me really due to not be able to weld properly etc. Hmmmmm I do like the skelly act just trying to think what my take on that sort of thing could be.....

bremen1874 · 7 Nov 2011 at 17:46

Any decent case wouldn’t allow the hotspots your thermocromatic sheet could detect to form in the first place.

FatFishMonster · 7 Nov 2011 at 17:52

bremen1874 said:
Any decent case wouldn’t allow the hotspots your thermocromatic sheet could detect to form in the first place.

Ah that's a very good point coming to think about it, anther problem with that is, how do you get the hardware out haha

Ok maybe the plastic case was a bad idea. Maybe I'll have a deeper look into the skelly and maybe try to get some inspiration from there

pgi947 · 7 Nov 2011 at 18:29

I would perhaps look to maybe a fully modular case? something like the LANboy, just not looking like its made out of mechano...coud be a tough one to design though.

For the temp side of things, if you insist on using plastic you could channel the plastic to fit temp sensors and then re-seal the channels, same could be done for all cables.

Be very interested to see what you come up with,love these kind of off the cuff projects

Edit: oh another to look at (I can't remember the model name) but its by coolermaster i think, and is round, shaped as a 3D version of their logo, pretty unique

FatFishMonster · 7 Nov 2011 at 18:48

Yes I think this fully modular/skelly idea is probs going to be better and probs wont look like a cheap knock off jobby.

I'll edit my original post and ask for the title to be changed

If anyone can give some ideas for modular/skelly things then I would be really grateful

Gepetto · 8 Nov 2011 at 12:01

I really like the Antec Skeleton, but it does have some little idiosyncracies that you could look at.

It's not really modular so you could perhaps make it more so. I think it would benefit from variable orientation of the HDD's, PSU, and the opticals, in the base. This would be to make cabling easier.

The top framework is not easy to simply lift off (unplugging the top fan) to make the MB access a breeze, so your design could incorporate that facility perhaps. I did not extend the front switch/LED cables on mine, so that rendered the slide out MB pretty much useless, which brings this to mind.

The idea of the large top fan cooling mostly everything is a good idea, but perhaps a design with side fans would be worth looking at, although keep the framework to enable handles at the top. I used that aspect quite a bit.

Good luck with the project. :cool:

FatFishMonster · 8 Nov 2011 at 17:48

Gepetto said:
I really like the Antec Skeleton, but it does have some little idiosyncracies that you could look at.

It's not really modular so you could perhaps make it more so. I think it would benefit from variable orientation of the HDD's, PSU, and the opticals, in the base. This would be to make cabling easier.

The top framework is not easy to simply lift off (unplugging the top fan) to make the MB access a breeze, so your design could incorporate that facility perhaps. I did not extend the front switch/LED cables on mine, so that rendered the slide out MB pretty much useless, which brings this to mind.

The idea of the large top fan cooling mostly everything is a good idea, but perhaps a design with side fans would be worth looking at, although keep the framework to enable handles at the top. I used that aspect quite a bit.

Good luck with the project.

thanks for your respons

its just hard to thing of something new without like creating somethings thats already been made. cause you look at the skelly and when u picture making it, it looks the same but with some features you want haha

ill talk to my tutor some more and try to progroess with some inital takes on the level 10 and skelly and see how i can maybe combine aspects of them in some way.