Overview / Usage

My idea is for a custom tower build with a "theme" of tower movies. Movies (so far) can include Hackers, Towering Inferno, and Die Hard. For each of them the LCD display in the bottom would display the Movie poster and then the windows (which have LEDs, powered by Arduino) would display something specific. For example, Hackers would pop up "Crash and Burn" spelled out in the LED Windows, just like the end of the movie. Towering Inferno, the windows can be set to flicker, like they are on fire. For Die Hard, we can loop a picture of Hans Grubber falling in the LCD and have a single light drop trough each of the windows. More tower movies can be added. The tower would be 3'-4' tall to accommodate the water-cooling as well as the number of windows needed to do some custom LED designs. Windows would be on all four sides, so the number of LED's needed would be based on window size. The top of the building would be mesh and have the WiFi antennae’s mounted to the mesh to make it look like some of those NYC skyscrapers.

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Once the tower is 3D printed, it can be mounted to a metal frame and airbrushed to look like a normal office building.

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The outsid of the building would be 3D printed, basically including all outside aspects of the tower. There would be a front facing a LCD in the bottom of the tower which can display movies posters or other movie clips. The base would house the mobo/vga/PSU in the base, although it would be possible to put the VGA in the tower with the RES/Pump. Within the tower would be a water cooling floating setup. 1 top rad, 1 mid rad, 1 res with pump on the bottom. WC flow is shown in the picture. In between each of the rads/res would be fans pushing the heat up.

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The hardware is flexible but would need a Motherboard, CPU, 1+ nVME's, PSU, RAM, and 1 video card.

Methodology / Approach

3D Printing

Metalworld

Arduino + Arduino programming