|  | April 09, 2013
Installing NAS4Free February 28, 2013
Building an XBMC 12 Home Theatre PC January 25, 2011
XBMC Guide updated to version 10.0 August 06, 2010
Building a Green PC February 15, 2010
Building an ION powered HTPC with XBMC October 10, 2008
The "Cambridge Autonomous Underwater Vehicle 2008" September 12, 2008
"Florian", the DVD burning robot September 05, 2008
The "i-EPIA" May 22, 2008
The "GTA-PC" April 14, 2007
The "Digg" Case |
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The "ITX-Laptop" December 07, 2006
The "Tortoise Beetle" October 02, 2006
The "DOS Head Unit" August 31, 2006
The "Janus Project" August 05, 2006
The "Leela PC" June 26, 2006
Nano-ITX in a Football May 17, 2006
The "EPIA Alloy Mod" April 11, 2006
Neatorama's Collection of Case Mods February 18, 2006
The "Rundfunker" October 24, 2005
The "ITX TV" October 06, 2005
The K'nex-ITX August 05, 2005
The "Waffle Iron PC" July 21, 2005
The "Supra-Server" July 18, 2005
The "Mega-ITX" July 07, 2005
The "Encyclomedia" May 25, 2005
The "Accordion ITX" May 16, 2005
The "FileServerRouterSwitch" May 15, 2005
The "Mini Falcon" May 13, 2005
The "Bender PC" May 11, 2005
The "BBC ITX B" |
| | | | May 10, 2005
The "Frame" April 20, 2005
The "Jeannie" March 09, 2005
The "Cool Cube" January 30, 2005
First Nano-ITX Project? January 17, 2005
The "iGrill" January 15, 2005
The "Gumball PC" December 15, 2004
The "Deco Box" December 03, 2004
The "TERA-ITX" October 06, 2004
The "Coealacanth-PC" September 17, 2004
The "Gramaphone-ITX-HD" August 26, 2004
The "C1541 Disk Drive ITX" August 25, 2004
The "SEGA-ITX" August 13, 2004
The "Quiet Cubid" August 06, 2004
The "BMWPC" July 14, 2004
The "Moo Cow Moo" July 02, 2004
The "Mini Mesh Box" June 17, 2004
Jukebox ITX May 24, 2004
The "ERN005PC" (KANA) March 13, 2004
The "Underwood No. 5" February 04, 2004
The "Humidor CL" Full alphabetical archive on right hand side of page... |
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The "Bender PC"
Introduction
After finishing my last project, I just had to do something new.
I thought about what to do for months and had several good ideas, but finally I fell for Bender. I've always been a big Futurama fan and I was 100% certain I'd be able to do this, despite how much time and money I'd spend. I would never have been able to finish this project if I hadn't had help from my friends: Einhar Flå - for welding, Geir Gravem - who calculated the angles and proportions. So a big thanks to these guys.
Planning
How big was it going to be? And how to fit it all together? This needed to be thought through and I figured out that I could first build a full-size paper figure first, and then make all the mistakes I wanted without wasting time and sheet-metal.
Parts List
• 1 x Slim slot load DVD ROM/CD-burner
• 1 x VIA EPIA M 10000 Mini-ITX motherboard
• 1 x WLAN card with antenna
• 2 x 10 watt light-bulbs (12volt)
• 1 x 120 GB Hard Disk & 4 x external 250 GB disks using Firewire
• Metal ducts (for feet and hands)
• 3 x Metal kitchen bowls (for the top of the head and legs)
• 4-5 paper sheets
• 3 x 0,7 mm pieces of steel sheet-metal
• 1 x Digital voice recorder
After playing with different 3D programs I managed to print out this 3D-model. I used it as a blueprint where I filled in the measurements for size, and so on.
And so the work with the paper-figure began - calculating angles, finding the correct proportions, etc.
I now had a paper-figure, very crooked but usable. With this paper figure all we have to do is spread out each sheet of paper on the sheet-metal and use them as a template. When all templates and parts we need are finished, we can start building.
Building Bender
The eyes used 10 Watt Halogen bulbs running on 12 Volts, wired to the PSU. Since these are only 10 Watts and wired serially, they don't get very warm and don't use much power.
Then the cutting began.
The sheet-metal was cut, rolled until completely round and then welded together.
At last Bender was taking shape, but more work remained.
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