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The "Digg" Case January 19, 2007
The "ITX-Laptop" December 07, 2006
The "Tortoise Beetle" October 02, 2006
The "DOS Head Unit" August 31, 2006
The "Janus Project" August 05, 2006
The "Leela PC" June 26, 2006
Nano-ITX in a Football May 17, 2006
The "EPIA Alloy Mod" April 11, 2006
Neatorama's Collection of Case Mods February 18, 2006
The "Rundfunker" |
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The "ITX TV" October 06, 2005
The K'nex-ITX August 05, 2005
The "Waffle Iron PC" July 21, 2005
The "Supra-Server" July 18, 2005
The "Mega-ITX" July 07, 2005
The "Encyclomedia" May 25, 2005
The "Accordion ITX" May 16, 2005
The "FileServerRouterSwitch" May 15, 2005
The "Mini Falcon" May 13, 2005
The "Bender PC" May 11, 2005
The "BBC ITX B" May 10, 2005
The "Frame" April 20, 2005
The "Jeannie" March 09, 2005
The "Cool Cube" January 30, 2005
First Nano-ITX Project? January 17, 2005
The "iGrill" January 15, 2005
The "Gumball PC" December 15, 2004
The "Deco Box" December 03, 2004
The "TERA-ITX" October 06, 2004
The "Coealacanth-PC" |
| | | | September 17, 2004
The "Gramaphone-ITX-HD" August 26, 2004
The "C1541 Disk Drive ITX" August 25, 2004
The "SEGA-ITX" August 13, 2004
The "Quiet Cubid" August 06, 2004
The "BMWPC" July 14, 2004
The "Moo Cow Moo" July 02, 2004
The "Mini Mesh Box" June 17, 2004
Jukebox ITX May 24, 2004
The "ERN005PC" (KANA) March 13, 2004
The "Underwood No. 5" February 04, 2004
The "Humidor CL" January 23, 2004
The "Attache Server" January 22, 2004
"Racing The Light" January 21, 2004
VIA's Flat Panel DevKits January 20, 2004
The "Ambulator I" January 19, 2004
The "Borg Appliance" December 19, 2003
The Gingerbread Village Server December 04, 2003
Custom PC's XmasTreePC December 01, 2003
"Windows XP Box" November 12, 2003
"R2D2PC" Full alphabetical archive on right hand side of page... |
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The "Mini Falcon"
Introduction
Around the time I first discovered the Mini-ITX motherboard (and this wonderful website), I was surfing the web and came accross this new Playskool version of the Millennium Falcon. I instantly thought, the original Falcon mod (by Russ Caslis) had a lot of empty space. I bet you could fit everything you need in here.
It turns out I was *almost* right.
Construction
The first thing to do was gut it. It originally had buttons that played different sound effects. I wanted to preserve the buttons for power and CD ejection, and also try to save the sound board and spaker, but when the project got toward the end, there
wasn't really enough space to keep the speaker.
I took a dremel and cut/ground out all protrusions and cut a piece of acrylic to serve as a base for the drive and motherboard. In the picture here you can see the snap in power supply. It takes 12V input from a brick and supplies the hot power switch function. By now, I could see things were going to be tight so I looked around for the smallest DVD drive I could find. I wound up getting the Panasonic slim slot loading DVD drive.
Cutting the slot for the DVD was the hardest part of this whole project. If I had to do it all again, making a jig to hold the model vertically and runing the nose through a table saw would have been a lot easier and would have looked a lot better. You can also see some more acrylic pieces I glued around the DVD slot to give it some reinforcement.
I then bent some sheetmetal into L-brackets and attached them to the botom level of the support structure. Finding the screws that this drive used was probably the second hardest thing I had to to.
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