Initial Case Assembly

Initial case assembly (left, top, right front views)

Initial case assembly (side view)

Initial case assembly (rear view)

Here are several views of the assembled case. Outside of the obvious computer chassis connections in the back, I tried to keep the look of the accordion intact.

Keyboard mechanism

To power up the computer I put in 3 switches in series toggled by three specific keys on the accordion. When all three of these particular keys are pressed the computer will boot up.

Fan ducts - before (rear view)

Fan ducts added - after (front & rear views)

I had to install two quiet 120mm case fans, so I glued+screwed in place 1/8" thick particle board to seal off the key holes except for the two circular areas where the fans would be.

Button holes filled with fake gems

Jim and I had originally talked about doing a color organ in the area of the left hand buttons. I started by using clear tacky glue to place 120 fake gems into the button holes. I wanted the lighting to refract all over the place and this was a cheap and easy solution (outside of the finding the perfect sized gems).

Three cold cathode lights installed under button holes

After some research, the color organ scheme proved too time consuming and impractical. I discovered a better solution by purchasing a Sunbeam Lightbus Advanced Light Controller and four 12" colored cold cathode lights (green for the front of the server and red, purple, blue for the back).