Time to redo my HTPC since I want it to sit with the rest of my Home Theater equipment in the shelf.
This is what it used to look like, woody.
This is what I want it to look like:
I went looking for some plexi, originally I was going for a dark smoked front, but Home Depot didnt have any in 1/4" thick, so clear will suffice, then I'm going to paint the inside black.
The front of it will be made of plexi , i dont really care what the back and sides look like, so I'm gona make those oout of wood left over from HTPC v 1.0
After cutting the plexi with a utility knife, long time and hard to do. I screwed the front on with 5 screws:
That silver thing is a 4 port USB hub screwed on for the game controllers, as this will also act as my emulator.
I fed the usb cable through a whole with the connector in the back:
With the motherboard test fitting after the brass standoffs were installed:
That purple thing is going to be a wireless thing for my mouse, I'm going to strip it out of its tiny little case too.
One last pic.
Tomorrow I start on the sides and back I/O panel, which will be either plexi or wood, depending on how hard it is to cut.
This is what it used to look like, woody.
This is what I want it to look like:
I went looking for some plexi, originally I was going for a dark smoked front, but Home Depot didnt have any in 1/4" thick, so clear will suffice, then I'm going to paint the inside black.
The front of it will be made of plexi , i dont really care what the back and sides look like, so I'm gona make those oout of wood left over from HTPC v 1.0
After cutting the plexi with a utility knife, long time and hard to do. I screwed the front on with 5 screws:
That silver thing is a 4 port USB hub screwed on for the game controllers, as this will also act as my emulator.
I fed the usb cable through a whole with the connector in the back:
With the motherboard test fitting after the brass standoffs were installed:
That purple thing is going to be a wireless thing for my mouse, I'm going to strip it out of its tiny little case too.
One last pic.
Tomorrow I start on the sides and back I/O panel, which will be either plexi or wood, depending on how hard it is to cut.