Halftime!

With this update, an arbitrary milestone is reached. Now all bought essential computer components have been mounted successfully into the Detectron case. This post will feature some pictures of the newly built ventilation paths to the CPU fan, the integrated SSD mount, and some cablework with the PSU cables. Then some coming work units will be discussed.

According to the previous layout a ventilation system was needed to draw fresh air onto the CPU. This construction went reasonably smoothly, and even though the edge of the black plastic part is very unsatisfactory (built from an old diskette case - lol, diskette!), overall it seems to work. The hard part this time turned out to be the SSD mount. Originally this was planned to sit on top of the ventilation drum, but this layout just didn't fit. Eventually the entire backplate of the ventilation drum was taken off, and replaced by the SSD itself. The 3 mm saved, plus trimming down of the now cosmetic back piece with case fan, just managed to get the SSD in there.

As is easy to tell from these pictures, the cabling needs a lot of love to create some order. Here follows a list of minor work to be done:

• Build power-button, and attach it. 
• Solder PSU cabled to outer socket. Somehow isolate.
• Shorten and tidy up PSU ATX cables (swap housings, sleeve?, fasten to walls)
• Get super short SATA 6 Gps cable. Probably 10 cm.
• Lengthen case fan cable.

After these work units, everything needed to use the Detectron as a computer will be finished. Then comes the bells and whistles!