After my first Stoomdoos custom case and the Mikros followup, I'm ready for my third custom build. This one will be a crossover between the two: a 3D printed core with a bent plywood bezel. It takes the design language of the Mikros but spices things up with some more interesting materials. Introducing Mosquito, named after the wooden plane that was used during WWII and was made out of the same material, airplane plywood.
The case will be a sandwich style case, sporting 4 case fans, able to hold a 2 slot GPU up to 232mm long, a 40mm CPU cooler and will use the HDPlex 400W AC-DC and DC-ATX combo. At 242 x 220 x 109, it has a volume of about 5.8L.
The concept is about finished and the core has been made print-ready. I'm waiting for some hardware to arrive to double check on some dimensions and then I'm looking at a 25 hour print on my Prusa i3 MK3S.
Next step will be to order the plywood. They're pieces of 'aircraft plywood', extra thin sheets that are still made of at least 3 layers and that can be as thin as 0.4mm. I'm going to attempt to glue a couple of 0.8mm pieces together around a mold so I can bend the bezel around the core as 1 piece. Drilling the ventilation holes in the bezel will be another nut to crack, but let's worry about bending the wood first.
Here are some pictures of the current concept:
The case will be a sandwich style case, sporting 4 case fans, able to hold a 2 slot GPU up to 232mm long, a 40mm CPU cooler and will use the HDPlex 400W AC-DC and DC-ATX combo. At 242 x 220 x 109, it has a volume of about 5.8L.
The concept is about finished and the core has been made print-ready. I'm waiting for some hardware to arrive to double check on some dimensions and then I'm looking at a 25 hour print on my Prusa i3 MK3S.
Next step will be to order the plywood. They're pieces of 'aircraft plywood', extra thin sheets that are still made of at least 3 layers and that can be as thin as 0.4mm. I'm going to attempt to glue a couple of 0.8mm pieces together around a mold so I can bend the bezel around the core as 1 piece. Drilling the ventilation holes in the bezel will be another nut to crack, but let's worry about bending the wood first.
Here are some pictures of the current concept: