Posted on February 14, 2003
Introduction
When I came across Mini-ITX.com for the first time, I thought it might be a good idea to try a project on my own. After looking through the pictures on the site, I could not decide on whether to try a 1:10 RC-car-ITX or a nice little blue ITX-case. As always, things go their own way. So during a visit to my friend Wolfgang, who owns a motorcycle shop nearby, I saw some crash-helmets and asked myself, whether or not all components of a small business PC would fit into one of those beasts. As Wolfgang also was interested in this question, I got a new helmet for free - and so the "story" began ...
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This picture was taken for the "before/after" story. As one can see, the helmet could really have been used to protect silly things like human brains ;-)
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It is amazing how raw a helmet looks without all the protecting stuff.
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The first cuts are made. They will be used for the backpanel connections, the power supply fan and the mains connector. It does not look very hard, but it took a lot of time to arrange and re-arrange the parts to have them fitted altogether. Have you ever tried to cut rectangular pieces out of convex material?
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