The article I read is: It's Been A Fun Ride, But I'm Done Water-Cooling My PC (I'm hoping this loads correctly for you, as it didn't load correctly for me on Melty).
I've always thought about doing liquid cooling for a computer, but I've never gotten around to doing it, though I've looked at parts here and here a couple times or so.
One of the things that has kept me away is the fact that I can't find a water block for a Radeon HD 6770 - the thing I would want most to be liquid-cooled. With where I'm working now, I technically could make a custom block, but at some point, I'll probably upgrading the 6770 in Melty to something better, so it'd be a lost cause to make that custom block.
Even though I do want to tinker with liquid-cooling, I don't think I'll ever actually do it for any of my own machines, mainly because of the fact that air-cooling works well enough.
A couple weeks ago, I started working as an electronic assembler for a small company that puts together wheelchairs; besides the obvious PCB work, I also make all the cables.
It's decently interesting and I've learned a bit from it - from SMT to using an oscilloscope. It's been sort of a crash-course though, since the one who was training me was really needed in welding (it also didn't help that some of the parts are really low).
Anyway, I probably won't be posting too much for a couple months or so, since I have a severe lack of money; you'll probably mainly be seeing posts about articles, and maybe some projects/tinkering using parts that I already have.
I've been pondering around with ideas for a case that contains the Pi2, Banpi, and HDD, and so far I've figured out to put it all into a single, pre-made box that I found. Sure it's relatively weather-resistant (weather-proof?), but it was the only box I was able to find that was roomy and rectangular. As far as internal layout, I have yet to figure it out since I have a very vague idea of cable paths for one layout (I'm trying to put the HDD in a place with minimal EMI). In the matter of parts, I'm quite covered, so it's just a matter of getting the parts in that stituation.
Once I'm able to, I'll be setting up the Pi2 and Banpi before I do the first half of wired networking for the second floor. Luckily, there happened to be fishing tape at work, so I can borrow that when I run the Cat6.
I thought there was more I was going to talk about, but I can't remember it - if there was.
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