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The "GTA-PC" April 14, 2007
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" October 24, 2005
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" Full alphabetical archive on right hand side of page... |
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The "Supra-Server"
Introduction
Ever since first seeing the Mini-ITX website I wanted to do my own computer conversion. After doing an engine conversion on my Supra, a computer should be a piece of cake. The main thing I wanted was to look like just a car, and it had to have a purpose.
I saw the HTPC cars on this site, and on a few others and realised with my experience in computers/RC cars/engine conversion this was the task I was made for.
Construction
I originally had the Mini-ITX 800MHz motherboard, a 10GB Laptop HDD, Slimline CD ROM and 60 Watt Power Supply inside an original Mini-ITX motherboard cardboard box. I cut it all out with my pen knife, and actually screwed all the components into the cardboard.
The server stayed in this configuration for about a month, and had no problems with heat even when I shut off the side fan as it was too noisy.With the server not being a HTPC there is very minimal cabling needed. Just the power, LAN and modem.
This was only temporary, and as I serve a website about my car, I thought it should be a car. It couldn't be any other car than a Supra!
I ended up buying a JGTC Supra remote control car shell, wheels & tyres, translucent red and black spray paint, 2mm aluminium checkerboard plating and 1mm angle-aluminium.
First of all, I marked out the base from the shell.
To cut through the aluminium a bit quicker I "modified" my wood jigsaw to a metal jigsaw by putting a hacksaw blade into it. This worked well until the blade got hot and bent (perhaps not a good idea after all...)
The fine edges were done on the bench grinder and later cleaned up with a file.
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