Hypercube² Part I

Shopping List

I made a list of all the things I needed: the hardware, the tools, the building materials etc so I could begin to order all the parts. The list grew over the months I was building the case; this is the completed list of things I ended up buying and using:


MATERIALS<ul><li> Aluminium frame 274*274*15 mm (with U-profiles 15*15*3mm)</li><li> 6 Lasercut 2mm stainless steel panels with different sizes (approx. 274*274mm)</li><li> 6 Different Lasercut 2mm stainless steel panels (fangrills, LCD, Powerbutton,...)</li><li> Transparent Plexi (approx 1m²)</li><li> Frosted White Plexi (approx 1,5m²)</li><li> Bolts with inbus 5M and 4M</li><li> T profiles 15*15*2mm</li><li> Mirror self-adhesive foil</li><li> Plastic mirror plates</li><li> Metal profiles 5x5 mm</li><li> Metal profiles 10x2 mm</li><li> Bison Glue, Pattex Superglue, Bison Kombi Metal Glue, Plexi Glue</li><li> Auto Polish</li><li> Acetone</li><li> Solder (lots of it)</li><li> Rubbing Compound (Commandant)</li><li> HG (stainless steel polish)</li><li> White telephone cable</li><li> Silver paint : Polycolor Maimera SpA</li><li> Plexi tubes (12mm, 15mm)</li><li> Lots of sticky tape</li><li> Custom edged plexi plates</li><li> Plain white laserjet paper</li><li> Aluminium knobs for the rheobus</li></ul>Tools<ul><li> Jigsaw Bosch</li><li> Drill Metabo</li><li> Dremel Multipro</li><li> Bosch Universal Drill Press</li><li> Dremel Drill Press</li><li> Wilton Brink and Cotton (Wrench)</li><li> Digital nonius</li><li> Small Sanding Machine</li><li> Solder Iron</li><li> Metal drills (1 - 10 mm)</li><li> Tapdrill M5, M4, M3</li><li> Metal handsaw</li><li> NIKON D70 (for all the pictures)</li></ul>HARDWARE<ul><li> Chaintech 7NIF2: Socket A nForce2</li><li> AMD Athlon XP 3200+</li><li> 2 x MAXTOR 80GB, 8mb HD</li><li> 2 x 512Mb OCZ PC3200 DDR</li><li> Pioneer 120S slot DVD-ROM drive</li><li> Standard ATX PSU</li><li> Self made Rheobus from Sunbeam rheobus</li><li> 10 x toggle switches from Velleman</li><li> approx 60 white LEDs 5mm from World LED</li><li> approx 40 white LEDS 3mm from World LED</li><li> 1 white Luxeon LED</li><li> 4 x Coolermaster Blue Ice chipset fans 40mm (12V, 013Amp) (modded without the LEDs)</li><li> 3 x Coolermaster 80mm White LED fans</li><li> Aluminium sleeving</li><li> Plastic Tubes</li><li> Lilliput 1.8 inch color display bought on eBay</li><li> 18 x stereo silver 3.5mm Phonojacks - Velleman</li><li> Coolermaster Chipset cooler</li><li> Crystal modded optical mouse</li><li> Apple White Keyboard</li><li> and a few things I will keep a secret for Part 2.</li></ul>MISC<ul><li> Patience and helpfull hands from my girlfriend (tnx Poepie)</li><li> Helpful criticism from my collegues at work</li><li> All the comments and help from Macroman and the bit-tech staff, as well as everyone who contributed to my Worklog - you really are amazing!!!</li><li> A vacuum cleaner (a very handy tool when you have to work in the house between all your other stuff)</li></ul>