“YM Inside” Technology Project

Peace be with you people of planet earth…and that.

I’ve finally finished my Design Technology A2 project…yes, I am now very tired.

So a little background. basically last year I made a ‘table’. I wasn’t very enthusiastic about that project so this year my teacher suggested doing a scratch build (making a computer case from scratch) because he knew I was into computing and so on. I liked this concept idea that I came up with about being ‘Powered by YM’ – which goes in with the computer processor theme as shown here:

As you can see, it takes the ‘Intel Inside’ concept design used by Apple and but hosts the YM logo.

Here’s the design I came up with for my final case:

Since October/November time I’ve been working on this project (involves a lot of boring folderwork), designing and consulting my client etc. Just to clarify, what I made was a desktop computer case which holds the internal components of a computer – Just like the box you have on your desk.

There is a huge community of people who either do ‘case mods’ or ‘scratch builds’ and they share their projects in ‘Project logs’. These are basically full worklogs of making the project from start to finish, complete with pictures documenting the entire process.

You can see my project log here

And here’s a few pictures of the final thing, unfortunately I don’t get to take it home so I can test it in a ‘working environment’ but it’s good enough I guess:

Yes, it is a fully functioning computer fitted with lights and 3 120mm Silent Fans. Check out the worklog for more pictures and how I did it!

Update: Teachers have given me an A

Peace