Hi you guys,

I forgot to tell you about my frontdoor that opens and closes automaticly.
You can see them in my gallery http://gallery.pcapex.com/showphoto....cat=500&page=1
or download here http://files.bighosting.net/ml16509.avi
For now I'll tell how I made it.
Maybe later I'll write a small instruction in "other modding" how to do it.

I took an old cd-burner and ripped it from its slide-mechanism.
But I reversed it so, instead of the slide going open en shut, the motor drives up and down the slidetrack.

The one I made has a 2-way switch with led indication .
These led's are to show me if the mechanism has reached its end-points.

So when I open the upper LED burn untill it has broken its end contactor-- LED turns of and the circuit is reversed to be closed again.
When I shut it the lower LED burns untill its endpoint---citcuit reverse.

This has caused me a lot of work.

So to make it easy I suggest a 3-way switch open-idle-close.

I've made it so commplicated because I had to be sure the circuit was broken when the door shut.
A few times there was a suspicious smell coming out my exaust-fan.
So I had to make it visible through LED's.

So got to find an old cd-player and than I'll try to write an instruction with a few photo's.

And of course a few people have to be interrested.

Grtz

wow, thats....really good. i like that idea.

Id think a cool automatic door could use your stock optical drives with a little bit of modding. Ill try to explain this like it makes sense in my head. Disable the latch on the door, mount some sort of rail to the inside of your door and attach an anchor point to the inside corner of your drive, so when it opens or closes the point slides along the rail opening and closing the door.

hey guys

sorry I totally forgot about how the motordriven part pushes open the door.
It's pushed open with a rod, here is a picture.

Someday later I'll give a detailed overview.
Find an old player ,strip it ,take some pictures an things like that.

Oh yeah please report if the link is broken, because I can't open it and I don't have
the file anymore because a had a virus on my PC

Thanks

Grtz

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Nice creative mod Lite_user.
I tried to help a friend do something like this with no success. Congrats on getting it to work. Now if you can do a door that goes "SHHHH" open like in Star Trek.....

Hi Lite_user i like the way you did that with the door can you tell me if i could do that on a thermaltake III case because i see your door opens up to the right and mine open up to the left on my cases.I am really interested to see a diagram and pictures how to make and install the door opener i have like 4 old cdroms drives that i am not using and would like to try your cool mod out.
p.s. excellent modding

hey guys

here is a GIF , hopes it explains a bit how it works.

you take out the cd-tray and take the motordrive-part(blue) with it,
make sure the drivepart stays connected to the tray.
Connect a rod between door and drivepart and Presto.
so at the end you get something like the GIF-scheme.

here a picture of how the tray should be positioned.

When my cousin gets back from Italy, he's giving skiing lessons threre,
i'll use his old dvd-player the put together some sort of guide.

see you soon

and yes it works for right and left opening doors.


Grtz

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Sweeet door opener......

Thank you for explaining that it will work on ether position Lite_User look foward to see more on this mod.

hey

I've got a cd-writer drive, so I'll be taking that one apart ,finaly.
and try to make some sort of guide about how to make one yourself.

I'll post it probably here in the same forum.

thanks to my friend for the cd-drive


Grtz

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im glad you finally got it cause i really wanted to do this to my case and wasted 2 cd drives...... good luck

Hi

I've posted a thread that could help you build this frontdooropener.
this is the link
http://forums.pcapex.com/showthread.php?t=41284



Good luck to all

Grtz

Quote: Originally Posted by Lite_User Hi I've posted a thread that could help you build this frontdooropener. this is the link http://http://forums.pcapex.com/showthread.php?t=41284 Good luck to all Grtz

Trippy......When you click on the link...It comes up MICROSOFT.COM..
I think you need to edit the link and take off the double http://

thanks,


the link is fixed ,thanks for the notice.

Grtz

That looks very cool good job on it.