Piccas
Updated Frame
Front of frame
Closeup pic of PSU holding bracket's base + motherboard tray seat.
Frame with PSU bracket.
Front with PSU
Another pic with PSU installed
Optical drive holding brackets
Now with the optical drive
And here's a side-project.
As mentioned, I will be putting in PWM fan controllers built into the case. As this is a small case, I don't have the space for many fans, and I plan to have only the CPU fan, and the rear 120mm fan controlled this way.
This means building a circuit of my own, since commercial PWM fan controllers are too large (usually controlling 4 or more fans), requiring a whole 3.5" bay at least. They're also crammed with tons of features I don't want.
I'm also designing a circuit for some LEDs to show the fan activity (dimmer if fans aren't turning that fast, etc), and a single switch to disable ALL LEDs in the case for total darkness. With my current case, I realised while the lights look pretty, when you're trying to sleep, they get irritating. My comp runs 24/7 btw.
Anyway, to build these circuits, I will need to test them. Which means I need a benchtop power supply, which I don't have. My choices are to buy one (which costs about $50 bux for a basic one, which provides only a 12V rail), run it off a computer (which means I put all my hardware at risk if I stuff up), or build my own.
And since I'm on this BYO (build your own) spree, I decided to build my own. Its simple enough, and will provide me with all the voltages a computer uses, which is 0, +12, +5, +3.3, -5, -12. This doesn't include all the different voltages from combining 2 voltages (+7 from +12 and +5 for example). This benchtop power will also provide more amps than anything of similar cost.
In reality, this side-project took 3 days to do, but I put together the final project in about 2 hours. Someone who doesn't need to refer everywhere, and with all electronics tools probably can do it in 30 mins.
Here's pics.
PSU
PSU showing mods.
Closeup of mods.
Internals of PSU