Past worklogs for Batman's Utility Belt
04/22/08
Visitor
Had a visitor today… Hercules the cat:
Also customed the mouse:
04/20/08
Done, finished, complete
Good luck to everyone in the competition. I have absolutely no idea what I’m going to do with this rig now it is finished, but I’m very pleased with the end result. It is interesting looking back at the original sketch and how I underestimated the size of parts – in the final version Batman has a waist size of about 40", maybe this is the beer drinking Bruce ...or is that me?!
04/14/08
Continued from below...
Had to head out to Fry’s and buy 3 80mm fans – variable speed and bright …orange. So had to spray these yellow and intall – two on top and one underneath, now I have plenty of airflow through the bag. Have also been messing with the lights – added a new pic (top left) of the rig lit up and under UV. Will be changing the bat light at the bottom to be more like the batman search light. Fussed around with some smaller UV lights tonight as well as spraying a keyboard. Will be updating pictures, sound, worklog and specs prior to the 22nd. Still lots to do!....
04/14/08
Triumph and disaster and back again
Moved the rig from the garage onto my desk, pride of place next to "ambient". Got it all fired up and Vista came back first time from when I’d installed with all the parts laid out separately (seems a long time ago!). Liquid cooling working well, had a few kinks in the pipe but cut some copper tubing and fixed this, then coated in black tape to keep the black and yellow scheme. Ran DMark and HW monitor and notice my GPU temps climbing. Hmmm… water cooling for the CPU but locking the GPU inside a black cloth bag with the mother board was not going to work.
04/11/08
Assassin's Creed
Put in a solid day on batman’s belt today. Really pleased with the progress. One possible hitch – Assassin’s Creed has finally come out on PC and I have a copy. This could be a huge distraction! Did manage to spray paint about forty nuts and bolts, cut a load of plastic and did a lot of sanding. Will hopefully get some more pictures up over the weekenf.
