mediaBIN3.0 Weighted Companion Cube Build - Page 6

Mussels · Jan 5, 2010, 10:49 AM

now now, no fighting. i can always edit posts so that *i* get first dibs :P

need moar updates!

Wile E · Jan 5, 2010, 10:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mussels

now now, no fighting. i can always edit posts so that *i* get first dibs :P

need moar updates!

I could always fly to the land down under, and have a nice face to face chat with you too.

zAAm · Jan 5, 2010, 03:05 PM

Okay, I've got a teaser for you guys...

The hearts on the disks are done. They only need to dry and then I'll coat them with clear paint. You might be wondering: "How did you get that strikingly realistic hand painted finish my dear man?". I'll tell you - it's a tried and tested technique used widely by artists for a number of years now. I believe it's called painting the damn thing by hand...

No it doesn't have perfect lines, no I couldn't find spray paint with the EXACT same shade, yes I had to mix it from scratch and no I don't care because if you look at the hearts in the game they are really weathered and scratched so it's not hard to imagine that they were hand painted in the beginning....

beyond_amusia · Jan 5, 2010, 03:09 PM

Wow, I'm keeping an eye on this thread - It will be a sexy rig. xD

MRCL · Jan 5, 2010, 03:22 PM

The hearts look horrible. Imho you can just throw the whole project in the trash. Congratulations, you have ruined it for us, I hope you are happy. Are you happy? ARE YOU?

No seriously, the shade is perfect, and the drawing superb - you have two skilled hands my man. Too bad if someone would... steal them.

zAAm · Jan 6, 2010, 05:36 PM

Haha, you might change your mind if you heard that the cube was complete

I don't know if you would like to see some pictures now though? Since it's all ruined and everything... sigh.

Bo$$ · Jan 6, 2010, 05:42 PM

nice painting

zAAm · Jan 6, 2010, 08:09 PM

Hi guys. It's taken quite some time, but what I have here is the final photos of the case

. It is, as you will notice, missing a power supply which I will be getting on Monday. I'll post the final internal photos when I've installed the pico 90.

So let's start with a normal perspective view just to wet your appetite...

Another angle

Now the front...

... and the back. Can't really tell the difference except from the top heart orientation can you?

Now the top...

... and the bottom. This one you can tell (almost missed it eh?) by the screws bolting into the other half of the case as well as the added highly rigid foam feet

The back of the cube with the heart cover removed

One of the bottom corners removed by removing the M6 bolt going through all the layers.

... and all the corners gone.

Notice the placement of the screws that hold the internal structure. They were placed to be under the corners and there's small holes drilled in the corners just above the screw heads to allow the corner to fit flush with the cube.

The top half of the cube dismantled showing the internal structure.

Close-ups of the internal structure... You will notice the missing pico!

The internal view of the top half of the cube. It looks pretty messy but all the wires are glued in place and routed as cleanly as possible.

The top corners were screwed in place by three self-tapping screws after drilling holes into the perspex and corners.

The bottom part placed onto the top part again before tightening the bolts. The holes are countersunk.

Another perspective

The lighting. They were powered by an external power source given that the pico isn't installed yet. The whole cube is covered in LED's. This is viewed from the left...

... and from the right...

... and the back, showing the power supply module feeding power into the cube...

... even the bottom is covered

A close-up of the top. You can see some separation in the light, but it's not that critical.

A shot in the dark. The light is ONLY coming out of the slots on the cube and there's no light leaking into the inside of the cube and coming out of the heart covers.

Now when I turn down the UV, the cube is in red mode

... and the other way around in UV mode. Interestingly, the camera sensor, being more sensitive to the shorter wavelengths, captures a blue light although it looks purple-ish in real life

Finally, I leave you with a comparison between the in-game cube and the final mediaBIN3.0 Weighted Companion Cube!

Soooo, there you have it. Hope you guys are satisfied with the end-result! I know I am

(FIH) The Don · Jan 6, 2010, 09:21 PM

OMFG that is simply amazing

MRCL · Jan 6, 2010, 09:24 PM

Oh. my. fricken. God. That thing is so perfect. Congratulations zAAm for creating such a great enclosure and pleasing my eyes. They are so pleased they want a cigarette

Seriously dude I take my hat off to you.

Soylent Joe · Jan 6, 2010, 09:29 PM

/head explosion

Wow, that's awesome. You should make a case mod gallery for it.

zAAm · Jan 6, 2010, 09:38 PM

Thanks guys... Mmm, maybe I should post a pic or so in the case mod gallery and see what happens

Fourstaff · Jan 6, 2010, 09:52 PM

zAAm · Jan 6, 2010, 10:18 PM

Just for fun, a size comparison alongside a DVD 50pack spindle (only thing of standard comparable size I could find as I quickly looked around)

Wile E · Jan 7, 2010, 01:47 AM

So, how much do you want for it?

zAAm · Jan 7, 2010, 06:19 AM

Unfortunately I'm not gonna sell it

After the amount of work I've put into it, I don't think you'll be able to afford it!

Th0rn0 · Jan 7, 2010, 01:21 PM

Wow... Just amazing!

Mussels · Jan 7, 2010, 01:24 PM

that's awesome dude.

Make sure to take lots of pics, and throw it up in the gallery

Bo$$ · Jan 7, 2010, 04:41 PM

OMG this is awsome, give us a link from the gallery, and we shall all vote 10/10

zAAm · Jan 7, 2010, 04:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bo$$

OMG this is awsome, give us a link from the gallery, and we shall all vote 10/10

Haha, I'm just interested if people will like my work. I don't really mind though, cause I will be the one using it

The gallery link: http://www.techpowerup.com/gallery/2435.html

dr emulator (madmax) · Feb 13, 2010, 10:58 AM

you sir get a

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from the doc
are you planning on doing something else in the future?

zAAm · Feb 13, 2010, 11:45 AM

Thanks!

At the moment I don't have any inspiration yet on another mod, but will see as we go along... I think my next project will be computer unrelated as I'll be defretting and modifying a bass guitar I'm looking at

I still need to post some pictures of the cube in action - it's already doing its duties with the RAID0 HDD array replaced with a single Samsung EcoGreen 1TB drive. Will add another one later maybe, but I need to look into some better airflow for the hard drives as they're getting quite hot - 50C for the current drive.

zAAm · Jun 14, 2011, 09:52 PM

So the Atom 330 was pretty much useless in the end. I just upgraded it with the following:

- Intel DH67CF LGA1155 Media Series motherboard
- Intel i5 2400S 2.5GHz Low-voltage CPU
- 8GB Corsair DDR3-1333
- 1TB Samsung F2 EcoGreen (for the moment it's not used as a NAS so capacity isn't top priority)
- PicoPSU 120W w/ 110W Adapter

It runs MUCH better (I'd say about 5 times as fast) and I can use it for testing my software projects!

Airflow is a bit of an issue as the i5 gets to around 70 degrees with the stock cooler in the confined space when stress testing, but normal use won't see anywhere near that.

Now it serves as a pretty decent media server and can still be used in the CPU and RAM intensive testing of my software programs...

So now the Companion Cube can be considered a companion once again!

yogurt_21 · Jun 14, 2011, 10:26 PM

sweet now must show the companion cube running portal 2. lol

Bo$$ · Jun 15, 2011, 10:09 AM

yeah, you should make a new one based on one of the new cubes, thanks for the update, any screens of the internals??

Jan 5, 2010, 10:49 AM	#126
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zAAm Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: South Africa Posts: 789 (0.27/day) Thanks: 15 Thanked 72 Times in 49 Posts System Specs	Okay, I've got a teaser for you guys... The hearts on the disks are done. They only need to dry and then I'll coat them with clear paint. You might be wondering: "How did you get that strikingly realistic hand painted finish my dear man?". I'll tell you - it's a tried and tested technique used widely by artists for a number of years now. I believe it's called painting the damn thing by hand... No it doesn't have perfect lines, no I couldn't find spray paint with the EXACT same shade, yes I had to mix it from scratch and no I don't care because if you look at the hearts in the game they are really weathered and scratched so it's not hard to imagine that they were hand painted in the beginning.... __________________ Intel Extreme DX58SO \| i7 920 @ 4.0GHz \| 16GB Corsair DDR3-1333 8-8-8-19 \| HD4870 @ 780/1000 \| 8600GT 256MB \| GeForce 210 lol Intel 520 240GB + Intel X25-M 80GB + 4TB Seagate/WD \| 24" Samsung SA350 + 24" BenQ G2410HD + 2x22" Samsung 2253GW's LCD + 1x19" B91D LCD \| CoolerMaster CM690 \| Corsair TX750 PSU \| Logitech Z-5500 Join The Core i7 Overclockers Club [Core i7 Overclocking Basics] [Logitech Z-5500 Digital Soundroom] [Katy Towells' Childrin R Skary]

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Jan 5, 2010, 03:22 PM	#130
MRCL Join Date: May 2008 Location: Switzerland, Heart of Europe Posts: 3,798 (2.09/day) Thanks: 340 Thanked 862 Times in 705 Posts System Specs	The hearts look horrible. Imho you can just throw the whole project in the trash. Congratulations, you have ruined it for us, I hope you are happy. Are you happy? ARE YOU? No seriously, the shade is perfect, and the drawing superb - you have two skilled hands my man. Too bad if someone would... steal them. __________________ [I.R.A.] FBi I wouldnt buy toilet paper from MSI as it may be missing the preforations

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Jan 6, 2010, 05:36 PM	#131
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Jan 6, 2010, 08:09 PM	#133
zAAm Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: South Africa Posts: 789 (0.27/day) Thanks: 15 Thanked 72 Times in 49 Posts System Specs	Hi guys. It's taken quite some time, but what I have here is the final photos of the case . It is, as you will notice, missing a power supply which I will be getting on Monday. I'll post the final internal photos when I've installed the pico 90. So let's start with a normal perspective view just to wet your appetite... Another angle Now the front... ... and the back. Can't really tell the difference except from the top heart orientation can you? Now the top... ... and the bottom. This one you can tell (almost missed it eh?) by the screws bolting into the other half of the case as well as the added highly rigid foam feet The back of the cube with the heart cover removed One of the bottom corners removed by removing the M6 bolt going through all the layers. ... and all the corners gone. Notice the placement of the screws that hold the internal structure. They were placed to be under the corners and there's small holes drilled in the corners just above the screw heads to allow the corner to fit flush with the cube. The top half of the cube dismantled showing the internal structure. Close-ups of the internal structure... You will notice the missing pico! The internal view of the top half of the cube. It looks pretty messy but all the wires are glued in place and routed as cleanly as possible. The top corners were screwed in place by three self-tapping screws after drilling holes into the perspex and corners. The bottom part placed onto the top part again before tightening the bolts. The holes are countersunk. Another perspective The lighting. They were powered by an external power source given that the pico isn't installed yet. The whole cube is covered in LED's. This is viewed from the left... ... and from the right... ... and the back, showing the power supply module feeding power into the cube... ... even the bottom is covered A close-up of the top. You can see some separation in the light, but it's not that critical. A shot in the dark. The light is ONLY coming out of the slots on the cube and there's no light leaking into the inside of the cube and coming out of the heart covers. Now when I turn down the UV, the cube is in red mode ... and the other way around in UV mode. Interestingly, the camera sensor, being more sensitive to the shorter wavelengths, captures a blue light although it looks purple-ish in real life Finally, I leave you with a comparison between the in-game cube and the final mediaBIN3.0 Weighted Companion Cube! Soooo, there you have it. Hope you guys are satisfied with the end-result! I know I am __________________ Intel Extreme DX58SO \| i7 920 @ 4.0GHz \| 16GB Corsair DDR3-1333 8-8-8-19 \| HD4870 @ 780/1000 \| 8600GT 256MB \| GeForce 210 lol Intel 520 240GB + Intel X25-M 80GB + 4TB Seagate/WD \| 24" Samsung SA350 + 24" BenQ G2410HD + 2x22" Samsung 2253GW's LCD + 1x19" B91D LCD \| CoolerMaster CM690 \| Corsair TX750 PSU \| Logitech Z-5500 Join The Core i7 Overclockers Club [Core i7 Overclocking Basics] [Logitech Z-5500 Digital Soundroom] [Katy Towells' Childrin R Skary]

Jan 6, 2010, 09:21 PM	#134
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Jan 6, 2010, 09:24 PM	#135
MRCL Join Date: May 2008 Location: Switzerland, Heart of Europe Posts: 3,798 (2.09/day) Thanks: 340 Thanked 862 Times in 705 Posts System Specs	Oh. my. fricken. God. That thing is so perfect. Congratulations zAAm for creating such a great enclosure and pleasing my eyes. They are so pleased they want a cigarette Seriously dude I take my hat off to you. __________________ [I.R.A.] FBi I wouldnt buy toilet paper from MSI as it may be missing the preforations

Jan 6, 2010, 09:29 PM	#136
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Jan 6, 2010, 09:38 PM	#137
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Jan 6, 2010, 10:18 PM	#139
zAAm Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: South Africa Posts: 789 (0.27/day) Thanks: 15 Thanked 72 Times in 49 Posts System Specs	Just for fun, a size comparison alongside a DVD 50pack spindle (only thing of standard comparable size I could find as I quickly looked around) __________________ Intel Extreme DX58SO \| i7 920 @ 4.0GHz \| 16GB Corsair DDR3-1333 8-8-8-19 \| HD4870 @ 780/1000 \| 8600GT 256MB \| GeForce 210 lol Intel 520 240GB + Intel X25-M 80GB + 4TB Seagate/WD \| 24" Samsung SA350 + 24" BenQ G2410HD + 2x22" Samsung 2253GW's LCD + 1x19" B91D LCD \| CoolerMaster CM690 \| Corsair TX750 PSU \| Logitech Z-5500 Join The Core i7 Overclockers Club [Core i7 Overclocking Basics] [Logitech Z-5500 Digital Soundroom] [Katy Towells' Childrin R Skary]

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Jan 7, 2010, 06:19 AM	#141
zAAm Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: South Africa Posts: 789 (0.27/day) Thanks: 15 Thanked 72 Times in 49 Posts System Specs	Unfortunately I'm not gonna sell it After the amount of work I've put into it, I don't think you'll be able to afford it! __________________ Intel Extreme DX58SO \| i7 920 @ 4.0GHz \| 16GB Corsair DDR3-1333 8-8-8-19 \| HD4870 @ 780/1000 \| 8600GT 256MB \| GeForce 210 lol Intel 520 240GB + Intel X25-M 80GB + 4TB Seagate/WD \| 24" Samsung SA350 + 24" BenQ G2410HD + 2x22" Samsung 2253GW's LCD + 1x19" B91D LCD \| CoolerMaster CM690 \| Corsair TX750 PSU \| Logitech Z-5500 Join The Core i7 Overclockers Club [Core i7 Overclocking Basics] [Logitech Z-5500 Digital Soundroom] [Katy Towells' Childrin R Skary]

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Jan 7, 2010, 01:24 PM	#143
Mussels Doctor Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Bendigo, Australia (NOT THE USA) Posts: 34,546 (10.97/day) Thanks: 3,699 Thanked 8,686 Times in 6,387 Posts System Specs	that's awesome dude. Make sure to take lots of pics, and throw it up in the gallery __________________ Edumacational thread about PC Audio My external HDD's.5x samsung 1TB + 2x Seagate 1.5TB = 8 TB external storage 32 Bit OS vs 64 bit OS information How to get hardware accelerated H264 playback (DXVA) Netbook Owners United!

Jan 7, 2010, 04:41 PM	#144
Bo$$ Join Date: May 2009 Location: London, UK Posts: 3,670 (2.49/day) Thanks: 444 Thanked 770 Times in 679 Posts System Specs	OMG this is awsome, give us a link from the gallery, and we shall all vote 10/10 __________________ Live in the UK? Join the UK TPU Group! Caution! This is Sparta! Im Looking For... Im Selling

Feb 13, 2010, 10:58 AM	#146
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Motherboard:	msi kt6 delta oap /gigabyte x58 ud7 (rev1.0)
Cooling:	1 green akasa 8cm(rear) 1 multicoloured akasa(hd) 1 12 cm (intake) 1 9cm with circuit from old psu
Memory:	1.25 gb kingston hyperx @333mhz/ 3gb corsair dominator xmp 1600mhz
Video Card:	(agp) hd3850 not bad not really suitable for mobo n processor/ gb hd5870
Hard Disk:	wd 320gb + samsung 320 gig + wd 1tb 6gb/s
Optical Drive:	sony 8x multiwriter/lg bd-rom 10 x writer
CRT/LCD Model:	compaq mv720
Case:	thermaltake XaserIII skull / coolermaster cm 690II
Sound Card:	onboard
PSU:	corsair hx 650 w which solved many problems (blew up) /850w corsair
Software:	xp pro sp3/ ? win 7 ultimate (32 bit)
Benchmarks:	6543 3d mark05 ye ye not good but look at the processor /uknown as still not benched

Feb 13, 2010, 11:45 AM	#147
zAAm Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: South Africa Posts: 789 (0.27/day) Thanks: 15 Thanked 72 Times in 49 Posts System Specs	Thanks! At the moment I don't have any inspiration yet on another mod, but will see as we go along... I think my next project will be computer unrelated as I'll be defretting and modifying a bass guitar I'm looking at I still need to post some pictures of the cube in action - it's already doing its duties with the RAID0 HDD array replaced with a single Samsung EcoGreen 1TB drive. Will add another one later maybe, but I need to look into some better airflow for the hard drives as they're getting quite hot - 50C for the current drive. __________________ Intel Extreme DX58SO \| i7 920 @ 4.0GHz \| 16GB Corsair DDR3-1333 8-8-8-19 \| HD4870 @ 780/1000 \| 8600GT 256MB \| GeForce 210 lol Intel 520 240GB + Intel X25-M 80GB + 4TB Seagate/WD \| 24" Samsung SA350 + 24" BenQ G2410HD + 2x22" Samsung 2253GW's LCD + 1x19" B91D LCD \| CoolerMaster CM690 \| Corsair TX750 PSU \| Logitech Z-5500 Join The Core i7 Overclockers Club [Core i7 Overclocking Basics] [Logitech Z-5500 Digital Soundroom] [Katy Towells' Childrin R Skary]

Jun 14, 2011, 09:52 PM	#148
zAAm Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: South Africa Posts: 789 (0.27/day) Thanks: 15 Thanked 72 Times in 49 Posts System Specs	So the Atom 330 was pretty much useless in the end. I just upgraded it with the following: - Intel DH67CF LGA1155 Media Series motherboard - Intel i5 2400S 2.5GHz Low-voltage CPU - 8GB Corsair DDR3-1333 - 1TB Samsung F2 EcoGreen (for the moment it's not used as a NAS so capacity isn't top priority) - PicoPSU 120W w/ 110W Adapter It runs MUCH better (I'd say about 5 times as fast) and I can use it for testing my software projects! Airflow is a bit of an issue as the i5 gets to around 70 degrees with the stock cooler in the confined space when stress testing, but normal use won't see anywhere near that. Now it serves as a pretty decent media server and can still be used in the CPU and RAM intensive testing of my software programs... So now the Companion Cube can be considered a companion once again! __________________ Intel Extreme DX58SO \| i7 920 @ 4.0GHz \| 16GB Corsair DDR3-1333 8-8-8-19 \| HD4870 @ 780/1000 \| 8600GT 256MB \| GeForce 210 lol Intel 520 240GB + Intel X25-M 80GB + 4TB Seagate/WD \| 24" Samsung SA350 + 24" BenQ G2410HD + 2x22" Samsung 2253GW's LCD + 1x19" B91D LCD \| CoolerMaster CM690 \| Corsair TX750 PSU \| Logitech Z-5500 Join The Core i7 Overclockers Club [Core i7 Overclocking Basics] [Logitech Z-5500 Digital Soundroom] [Katy Towells' Childrin R Skary] Last edited by zAAm; Jun 14, 2011 at 09:59 PM.

Jun 14, 2011, 10:26 PM	#149
yogurt_21 Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 4,054 (1.53/day) Thanks: 2,243 Thanked 542 Times in 443 Posts System Specs	sweet now must show the companion cube running portal 2. lol

System Name:	Last of the Mohicans
Processor:	Intel i7 950 @ 4.4GHZ 21x210
Motherboard:	Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R
Cooling:	Scythe Mugen 2 rev B (SCMG-2100), stock on gpu's.
Memory:	6GB Kingston HyperX ddr3 1600 9-9-9-27@ 1680
Video Card:	2x Msi gtx 480 :) Still Strong
Hard Disk:	Samsung 840 Pro 256GB OS, 3x WD10EARS in raid 0 games, external 2tb storage, RaptorX 150GB chillin
Optical Drive:	SONY DVD-+RW and sony combo
CRT/LCD Model:	Viewsonic 27" 1080P
Case:	Raidmax Scorpio 668, stupid small ass case has 1 too few expansion slots in the back
Sound Card:	onboard HD
PSU:	Enermax Galaxy 1kw 75amp +12v
Software:	Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
Benchmarks:	thus far max 3d11 11580, Vantage 43977

Jun 15, 2011, 10:09 AM	#150
Bo$$ Join Date: May 2009 Location: London, UK Posts: 3,670 (2.49/day) Thanks: 444 Thanked 770 Times in 679 Posts System Specs	yeah, you should make a new one based on one of the new cubes, thanks for the update, any screens of the internals?? __________________ Live in the UK? Join the UK TPU Group! Caution! This is Sparta! Im Looking For... Im Selling