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
