Project: Blade

DarthBeavis1 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:48:39 GMT

I wanted to finish this project so here it is:
Only an Asus Xtreme motherboard with it's plethora of over-clocking abilities and and performance features that are not only present but also transparent, is worthy of this build. The system will be animatronic and will open up when in performance-mode to give the liquid-cooling system the additional air-flow it needs to keep up with the Asus over-clocking.

Blade is sort of a group project. I enlisted a modder buddy, geno@boxgods.com, to design a Blade-themed case. He took my basic idea and really ran with it (putting in over 300 hours of highly-professional work).
The rig will be two gaming rigs in one case with a removable file server on the top. The shape of the build is a cross. The arms of the cross contain two 20" LCD monitors in the 'top' and 'bottom' arm of the cross. When the rig is turned on the cross arms turn to gaming mode by rotating 90 degree so you can see two monitors from the front and two from the back. The tower portion of the case has a radiator box that moves forward, rotates to display the Blade's sword with the radiator behind it (fan grills made from polished aluminum bars will be between the rad and sword and will look like the grill on Blade's car).

There is a glitch in my Solidworks install that make the screws big so disregard that .

Video of basic animatronics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6IeEgiFT6A
http://www.facebook.com/surroz?v=app_2392950137&ref=name#/video/video.php?v=1241674492973
http://outoftheboxmods.com/2009/11/10/blade-design-for-asus-mod-contest/

I am still considering materials however the base material will likely be dark blue acrylic.

If you want to know what I am about, go to www.outoftheboxmods.com

Asus Xtreme Design Contest (now ended)

Project: Blade