cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29505513

So I have this old CPU water cooler and my laptop still throttles from some AI workloads on the GPU due to thermals. There is a nearly flat spot directly above the GPU heat pipes. So I’m making a way to connect the water cooler block.

After cutting a hole in the laptop enclosure cover, I need a way to attach the water cooler block securely. I have come up with a ring that can use the enclosure hole as the mount for the water block. I still need to design this mount. However, I needed to test and iterate the inner enclosure mounting ring before creating a mechanical mount for the cooling block, so I decided to design a cover for the hole when the laptop is not on my bedside stand, (physically disabled/laptop is for ergonomic needs/never actually leaves the bedside stand).

I went with a bit of a Dune theme with some asymmetric implied symbolism that harkens the Arab undertones of Arrakis and House Atreides.

I was also working on dialing in the finest details I can achieve with a 0.25mm nozzle and polycarbonate. I need to lower the first layer z a few thousandths as this came out with too many visible layer lines, but overall it is okay. I’m working on ways of adding infill like patterns in the slicer but making them appear nicer. I still haven’t nailed that one yet as this print has minor deviations between the geometric art pattern and the infill like screen. I did this one by brute force in FreeCAD but I think I can do better infill like mesh patterns after watching some tutorials on the Lattice 2 workbench.

I am going to create an insert of another color or texture for the House Atreides symbol.

I had to build my printer enclosure to print these in PC too.