Following the successful completion of the CO2 Station project in late 2021, I felt quite eager to start the next thing right away, so I started looking for ideas. With how practically useful the CO2 Station ended up being, I wanted something similarly useful to me.
One thing, which had been on my mind for years, was to make something nice for my main daily tool and workplace – my PC. Namely, I always dreamed of building a liquid cooled PC, but it just never felt worth it by itself.
But what if making it a project could change that?
Anyone who knows me wouldn’t be surprised by where this was going: I wanted to take the “liquid cooled PC” idea to another level. Namely, I was going to build my own custom PC case, designed entirely for liquid cooling and a unique look.
In short, I decided on the following basic ideas:
- Full custom liquid cooling (CPU and GPU)
- External radiator, hidden out of sight
- Main case with three transparent walls (left, front, top)
- Fully addressable custom RGB lighting
- Custom RGB/Fan/Pump controller with USB configuration
And so, the Liquid Cooled PC Case project was born.
While my previous projects had been mostly electronics-based, with electrical engineering being the main discipline and complexity of their designs, this one would be quite different – I’d need to dig my heels in and get much better at mechanical design and building things like this.
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