Recent content by SnoWFLakE0s

So I have a build with an ASRock B550M-ITX/ac. It's been my main PC for about 2 years now it's a great board, especially considering the price I paid for it. I didn't really need more features than what this board had, except that the default wifi card was pretty bad. I've been living with it...

Nominally Complete..? I got around to final assembly after some sanding and final touches. Here are some beauty shots: As you can see, the birch ply is still unfinished, and I ended up having issues with having the depth of the power button rear cutout be so small... but I'll figure it out...

Milling, Milling, Milling! It's finally time to start milling and I'm here with some results. Front Panel I finally got a time slot on the CNC mill so I went ahead and got my front panel machined. And for the final assembly... here's what it (tentatively) looks like. I'm just seeing now...

Most certainly. 92mm would be a easy mount, but a 120mm one might need some careful management of the clearances around the front (especially with the front panel elements). I will release the designs for this case, so you could definitely experiment with hardware choices. This is a more...

They're definitely more common in M4 and bigger sizes, but are much easier to source than PEM nuts (and are cheaper). Even on Amazon, you can get a 200+ piece pack for less than 10 bucks. Barring the extra clearance required to use these, they're a very easy solution to work with. Thanks! I...

Finishing - Cont. Applied a light extra dusting of paint, finishing my can, and some matte clearcoat today. The clearcoat really works wonders! Makes it feel far more finished. I'll work on the front panel soon...

Finishing - Paint I went ahead and (finally) painted the parts. I began by sandblasting and acetone-cleaning all the parts. Next is to prime the parts. I applied a pretty decent amount and let dry for about 2 hours while I went and did some other things, so I guess I didn't take a photo...

This was definitely sort of the target. This is easy enough to bend on the simplest of press brakes in a machine shop, and although I have free access to a metal laser cutter, it would be fairly cheap to buy these parts from a fabricator like SCS and bend them yourself (or just have them bent...

Thanks. Definitely Densium-inspired, but that Metalfish case definitely feels very similar to what I'm building. Not a huge fan of the design language there though, so I'm pretty happy with what it's coming to. Going completely dual-chamber with the inner wall might be a great idea, although...

Test Assembly I got some of my components actually in the box. Great results, here are some images. Please kindly ignore that the side panel wasn't screwed on properly :) Now all that's left is finishing (painting) and the front panel.

Rivnuts If you've ever seen the most recommended post on this part of the forum, you'd probably see a thing or two about PEM self-clinching nuts. They're nice, but they're not exactly an easy install job, and require a bit of tooling to get right. Some quick research tells me that you need about...

Steps in Production I prepared a 2x2' A1008 sheet for the laser cutter and got cutting... With more optimized geometry, cutting the entire thing only took 36 minutes from start to finish. I'm sure this is more obvious for the more experienced, but using fillets liberally across a laser cut...

Hello SFFN, I'm back with what is a drastic revision of my original custom case concept. Having gone through an initial "real" prototyping cycle, I am now pretty well informed in my tooling and manufacturing capabilities... and I also just wanted a much nicer product then what the first...

I only use a DAC/AMP combo device, but it most certainly would fit easily into an SFF case.

I've always been a huge fan of more ruggedized connector offerings. As a novelty side-project I've decided to build some of my own USB cables for use with my peripherals, but I decided building a generic USB 2.0 cable (480 Mbps) was too easy and boring (and also is something I've done before...