Been a couple of days, but progress has not stopped. I just thought that giving small updates every day might spam too much but honestly, it probably motivates me to do more stuff so I think I will return to the daily format

Hexagons are the bestagons

Learning to make hexagons work in a pattern format took abit more than i initially expected. But I got this lil chonk of my specific bracket made. (As it turns out its a 9 hour print split into 4!)

I could keep on using the existing test mounts but those dont have enough hexagons so im building this overkill of a thing. Will actually see if the final product lines up all nicely, never done any multi part printing before.

E-ATX standarn’ts

But the most challenging part was the measuring since as it turns out E-ATX is not a standard its more of a rough suggestion. And I already hate it, so much.

The test prints have been mostly successful and are in use right now but its yanky.

Mostly because of the GPU sag support that is basicly pulling the GPU via an failed print and the potentially really flimsy supports down below. There is nothing holding the GPU properly ,its just friction :) .

Next

Next up is probably going to be a case type of thing that I could sandwich the motherboard inbetween in to allow making the supports for the GPU something that I can change faster and something that is not integrated into the standoff plate. I do need to wait for the PCI-E risers along with PETG filament to arrive before I can start printing. That should arrive shortly but I still need to do some test fittings with PLA before using PETG.

Note: I realize that its already the 10th and I might not get the super amazing dust filtered box ready by the end of the month but I will try to get as far as possible.