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http://www.instructables.com/id/Laptop-housing-mod/
http://www.instructables.com/id/Laptop-housing-mod/
Step 1: Carving
First of all i needed a logo to carve in, so i went to the world wide web and found a suitable logo tnx to deviantart user RiderB0y. http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs42/f/2009/133/3/7/Kamen_Rider_Ryuga_Logo_by_RiderB0y.jpg But i was thinking it needed a bit of trimming to suit my needs, so i edited it and asked for the permission to use it. As you can see the final product is not identical to my version of the logo, but I'm quite satisfied with it. Steps: 1. Printing or drawing the logo on paper 2. Copying the logo to the laptop surface You can use the exacto knife to make the template, and then just paint it over with a thin layer of paint. 3. Cutting the plastic. I used a thin milling cutter bit, but anything similar will do. Be careful, its better to cut into the part that needs to go out then into the rest of the housing :) . 4. If you lose an part (like my dragons eye) it can be added again later when you add the resin, but its just an additional waste of your time and resources.
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Step 4: Wireing
Once again,I won't tell you how and where to hook it all up to your laptop,and don't add the lights unless you are not comfortable, confident and competent enough :) My circuit is made up of two parts, one lets current trough the upper 3 diodes when it gets the signal from the sound card (i tapped on to the on-board speaker), and the second one is composed of the lower four diodes directly connected to the 12v . There is two pairs of wires crossing from the motherboard to the display housing, one pair is the sound output from the speakers, and the other two are the power line 12v connected to the battery trough a on/off switch. The idea for the first Music LED Light circuit came from the Music LED Light Box project by the user motadacruz In my opinion maybe it is to bright , and 4 good LED's would be good enough. Also if you have a spare/broken LCD display from a big enough pda or a gps navigation, the backlight panel would be perfect instead of my LED's. The second picture is circuit switch on the motherboard, the slot was intended for the 128k modem input but there's no modem inside :)
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Mar 10, 2012. 5:22 PM REPLY
Kryptonite says:
WOW. That looks absolutely incredible, I think I'll have to do something similar with mine now.
Brna says:
:)
zack247 says:
wow, nice work! glad to see my design inspired someone else to give it a shot :3 looks great, and i love the blue.
Brna says:
Tnx!
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