“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

1. pink Says:
   April 13th, 2008 at 8:14 am

   the perspex looks v cool, shame you couldn’t hook it up to take pics, would’ve been nice to see it all lit up. the varnish picks out the design really nicely too, well done - was ur teacher finally impressed?

2. Usayd Says:
   April 13th, 2008 at 1:35 pm

   I hope so, because they’re the ones marking it. It is powered up and lit up in pictures 2&3, that isn’t natural light! Also something you can’t see is just how well the airflow works, thanks to Nihad who suggested the fans.

3. musab Says:
   April 13th, 2008 at 10:15 pm

   very impressive

4. usaama Says:
   April 14th, 2008 at 3:57 pm

   that’s some next pc bro… Did you make it yourself?

5. Usayd Says:
   April 14th, 2008 at 4:33 pm

   Yeah my tech project - Iqra!

6. blah Says:
   April 15th, 2008 at 2:26 am

   be-A-U-tiful! Liking the ’salaam’ design more so then the YM one…

7. blah Says:
   April 15th, 2008 at 5:16 pm

   ‘Update: Teachers have given me an A’ - YAY! well deserved

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