Heya,

I'm a big fan of DYI stuff so I decided that it'd be much more fun to build my very own mining chassis instead of just buying one from openrigs or something similar.

The design went through a few iterations in my head before I decided on what you can see below. First I wanted to build it with aluminum square beams, but that would have been way to expensive, so I decided on aluminum profiles instead (as seen below). It's almost as robust as using square beams but at only half the price. I put everything together using blind rivets, again with price and design in mind (much cleaner than using bolts and nuts everywhere.

The result was a very robust construction that weights just below 1kg.

Why did I do this one might ask? Well it sure as hell wasn't more economic than buying a finished rig! So be warned, you might get inspired by this but only do it if you think it's fun to build stuff like this! ;)

Here are some pictures of the project in a somewhat chronological order. It took me three different sessions to get it all together.

High-res versions can be found here: https://plus.google.com/photos/113644216943453030707/albums/6027887477984011233?authkey=CIPY6c-c6rbmbA

The raw material

Started out by drilling some matching holes for the "corners to be"

Presto!

Blind rivet in place (actually had to redo this specific one due to me being sloppy poping the rivet in place :P )

Bottom square done!

Legs attached to the bottom layer

Basic structure almost finished

Added mid-support for the gfx-cards

Slaughtered an old chassis to get a motherboard plate (easier than figuring out the exact screw pattern for atx)

PSU in place

Tightened with two screws, solid as a rock!

Motherboard in place

The whole rig finished! The fastening of the HDD is somewhat temporary, will be switching over to an old SSD I've got lying around. Will enhance the fastening of that then.

There you go! :)

Hope I can inspire someone with this!