Project: Ingraham

Thanks for that. I have the decals but no access to an ALPS. I'm told that they stopped making them some time ago so I might have to go another way. Red? Yellow? Green? Opinions? Black doesn't work.

 

light grey/silver maybe?
Looks hawt man. Loving it

 

I tried several shades of gray but at some point they start to rely on an underlying white that doesn't exist in a transparent decal. It has to be a solid color. Yellow has the best contrast, second is orange but do they really look good? If I had access to white I could pick from any color I want.

I know, it is strange. The printer leaves spaces for the white paper to show through but instead I get black walnut.

 

I thought I might try something like this. I can do two solid colors that might look good together. What do you think?



On another subject....I just finished installing Ubuntu 8.10 and all the equipment is running great. Fast little devil.

 

Ingraham @ 99%. I have only the front emblem to deal with and that's apparently going to take time.



Backside shot showing my new rheostat. I'll take any opportunity to add something knurled.





I'll be taking the "lid" back off soon to photograph the interior so I left off the case closing screw covers for now.





I disassembled the entire computer and put it back together using matching screws and Permatex Threadlock (medium strength).


Thanks for looking.

 

I know you will not be seeing the back that often, but do you have a low profile knob that sits at about the level of the wood? I can see that getting caught if you ever move it.

 

I think a big knob helps if you have to do a reach around.

 

thats where the 'slippery' part of your name comes from ???

 

LOL. But seriously, don't you hate reaching back behind your computer fishing around for a tiny switch or button or knob? Not with this bad boy.

But if my knob sticks out too far then I can live (proudly) with that criticism.

 

I'm playing around with my photo setup. I suck at it so I just take a thousand or so pictures and hope a couple stick. Thank goodness digital film is free.

Time to go 800 x 600.......






I'm also playing around with how to deal with the reflection in the baby moon's chrome. The wife recommended I just have fun with it and give people something interesting to look at. Top photo is the VIA VB motherboard box. Meh. Second is my Thinking Man statue. OK. Next up...naked women.

 

Last photo for a while...I promise. This was a request for a size comparison shot.



Smaller than you thought huh? This photo is brought to you by V8........Could've had a V8

 

Pretty sweet.

 

That is exceptional craftmans ship. Well done mate.

My case mods never get past a window and sound-proofing.

 

Thanks tired and Landless!



I decided to go with the classic black. It always works...just like that little black dress. Finally getting the camera dialed in too.

 

congratz on the camera work man
it is smaller than i though it wont be.

Looks sweet, shame its finished, nothing to watch now

 

very nice touch to a sweet as case

 

Thanks Mr Smoke and MUTMAN!















Specs:

VIA VB8001 motherboard w/16x PCI-e
VIA Nano CPU @ 1.6 GHz - 1MB L2 cache, 17W TDP, 100mW @ idle
4GB Crucial DDR2 667 memory
64GB Crucial SSD
Silverstone 60W PSU
Silverstone LC06 LaScala case (modified)
Evercool Fox-1 system blower @ 42CFM (rheostat control)
Ubuntu 8.10 OS

That's it...I'm done. Time to close this project out.

Thanks to everyone who watched and participated. It has been a pleasure sharing my work with you. I want to thank my good friends at VIA, Crucial and Silverstone for their continuing support and trust.

Ingraham will be making her public debut at the Consumer Electronics Show Jan 8-11th in Las Vegas.

Cheers!







For samples of my other work visit the gallery at slipperyskip.com

 

Wow top quality work as usual! Good work mate!

 

That looks fantastic. Congratulations on a very classy mod.

 

looks amazing man !