Conclusion

Gluing the front onto the case.

The extension cord for the network jack. As I said before, I didn't want the end of the motherboard sticking out of one of the sides. Instead, I put in jacks for the power and the network cables. Most of the time, the box isn't leaving runlevel 3. There's a removable panel for times when I need to hook up a mouse, keyboard, and monitor.

Power cable extension.

And here they are installed in the case.

The bottom of the case. You can see the power and hard drive LEDs, the power switch for the neon, the air intake, network and power jacks, and the hole for keyboard, mouse, and monitor cables.

I made the legs out of poplar and applied a cherry veneer. I had originally thought it would be cool to put a cherry veneer on the side panels, but found that the veneer warped the heck out of the Sintra.

The entire case is lined with some form of 1/2 inch thick foam. Here's the inside of one of the side panels. That's 1/8 inch hobby foam and half inch thick foam from a play mat. I gotta tell you, building this PC helped me with memorizing the alphabet. ;)

The guts. I ended up with enough leftover EL wire on the inside that I was able to detail the fan on the power supply. You can't see it but the motherboard is behind the hard drive mount. The ribbon cable folded up nicely inside the mount.

Sometime soon I've gotta do something to clean up the cables inside a little more.

The black box on the upper left is something I came up with for controlling the noise made by the EL wire inverter. This was replaced later when I hacked the inverter.

Glamour shot. As I had hoped, the PC is extremely quiet. On a normal day in our livingroom a person has to put their head next to the case to hear anything at all out of it. At 5 AM on a quiet Sunday morning with the refrigerator unplugged a person can hear the PSU fan and some hard drive whine from about two feet away. So far it seems to run cool enough, although I haven't done any real testing besides opening the thing up and feeling the temperature inside. There's definitely nothing in there getting past warm. A few last things I might do to it later is add another hard drive and maybe put an 80 mm fan into the bottom for "push".

Finally, here is the box in its natural environment. I bought the fabric for the side panels because it had a great vintage feel, and it wasn't until I got it home that I realized it was nearly the same color as my reading chair. Lucky coincidence.

That's it. Thanks for stopping by.