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The "BlueBox"
By Mathieu
Poignant - Posted on July 25, 2002
Introduction
No - this new project will not get you
free
phonecalls, and it's not made by Cap'n Crunch, it's Mathieu
Poignant's new mini-ITX based project. Like everybody else
on these pages Mathieu (or rather his girlfriend) wants his
new mini-ITX PC to look like ANYTHING but a PC. What does
a man in Gay Paree use to house his gleaming new media-pc?
A neat looking flightcase - and the finished product looks
stupéfier. Faites-le vous-même!
You can contact Mathieu
here
and us at feedback@mini-itx.com.
Do you have a Mini-ITX based project we should be seeing here?
Contents
- The Components
- Modifying
the Box
- Mounting
the Fan and Hard Disk
- Mounting
the Motherboard and Power Supply
- The BlueBox
in Action
1.
The Components
I discovered the VIA Mini-ITX boards in the
beginning of July 2002. In fact, I was looking for a way to
add a new hard disk, but I had no spare IDE channels. So I
had two options: buy an IDE controller card, or a brand new
PC. As the EPIA is cheaper than an IDE controller, the choice
was quickly made. But there was no case available to put this
little diamond in. As my girlfriend didn't accept the "drawer
way" ("What, you want to set the flat on fire?")
I had to make a case on my own - so the "BlueBox"
was born.
Nothing flash, just a plain working Linux
file server, cool (25/30°C) and silent (no more than 20 dB).
The main component is of course the Motherboard,
a VIA EPIA C3-800Mhz:
On the top right, you can see the home-made
switch and LEDs. The LEDs come from a trashed Dell case (not
mine !), and I bought the switch. The connector is an old
IDE cable I've dremelized to fit with the motherboard pins.
And on the bottom right, you can see the screws I used, with
grooves for spacing the board from the edge of the box.
Next comes the Hard Disk - a Seagate 80GB,
silent and cheap:
On the pictures, you can see the screws I used to space the
disk from the edge of the box. These screws are generally used
to fix Motherboards to standard cases.
The Power Supply is a 250W 1U Enermax, which
is very expensive (in fact, as expensive as the Motherboard).
But it fits inside the lid of the box, so...
As with everything inside the BlueBox, it is
fixed using screws.
Last, but not least, the Fan I used to cool
the box - a NoiseBlocker S2:
On the picture, you can see the 80mm grill,
the wonderful Fan, and a 12V to 7V adapter, provided with the
Fan. At 7V, the Fan produces only 11dB :-).
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