木制电脑 CASEMOD作品全过程

时间:2007-10-21 出处：作者：标签:

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木制电脑过程图片欣赏 The cut up metal of course looks a little bit ugly. Plus, the side panels would have been hard to resize and fit into the case. So I surrounded the whole case with 6mm plywood. The catch is, with where I put the CD ROM drive,

木制电脑过程

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original computer case

case cut up

case internal structure

original case orientation
The cut up metal of course looks a little bit ugly. Plus, the side panels would have been hard to resize and fit into the case. So I surrounded the whole case with 6mm plywood. The catch is, with where I put the CD ROM drive, my original orientation for the case looks rather stupid. Note that CD ROM drives are perfectly usable lying on the side, even for inserting and removing CDs. That wasn't the problem so much as the aesthetics.

case finished
So I put the case on its side, pulled the little rubber feet off the original bottom, and put a plywood panel on that side as well. The case looks a little better that way. Overall dimensions are 35 x 26 x 20 cm. The original case dimensions were 47 x 42 x 19 cm, so I'm down to less than half the volume. Of course, the original case had tons of drive bays.

power and reset switches
For the panel lights, power and reset buttons, I wanted to stick with the wooden theme. So I made some wooden "buttons" that protrude thru the wooden case. The little tabs sticking out the side of the buttons are to keep the button from sliding all the way out of the case. These tabs slide in the slots cut next to two of the holes. The holes painted white are for the power and hard drive lights. The switches and lights are mounted in a piece of front panel I cut from the original case. The speaker is from the original case also.

I only have a 700 MHz P3 with 640 megs of RAM in the case right now. But being an ATX case, once I find a better motherboard for it, I'll put that in there. Its not beautiful, but I do find it more pleasing to look at than a standard ATX case.

For airflow, I leave two of the card slots on the back open. this way, air is drawn in the back, past the cards and CD ROM drive, then hopefully around to the hard drive and CPU, and out thru the power supply. Of course, with only a P3 in the case, heat is not that much of an issue. But I hope to put a less obsolete motherboard in that case eventually.