Nice mod. Odd design for an emergency light (pending it is electric, like it looks), but makes for a nice HD stand. As far the warrenty, what...
Nice parts laying around kind of project. You might consider tossing the plastic tray and building your own tray to hold to hold the...
How many drives have you taken apart? I've only taken apart a few, but most had either a through hole, or the spindle mounted to a larger flywheel...
What do you mean? If you connect the encoder or encoder disc (if you're using an optical instead of clicky scroll) directly to the spinning part,...
Another source of knobs: Old dead HDs. Remove the top, remove the plates and in most drives you end up with an interesting little knob that spins...
My thoughts exactly. I'm building one soon, this would make a nice holder for the buttons and LEDs. Hmm... I actually have a spare DB-9 hood...
Tons of ideas in this worklog: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=776355 Maybe you two could work together. :idea:
Nice big case. Nice bondo work so far. How much clearance is there behind the tinted plexi and the drives? Looks like it might be a tight fit...
Very nice mod! Definately beats all the regular boxes with windows and lights at most LAN parties I go to.
You might want to check out http://www.arcadecontrols.com then. Many home-built Mame cabs in the examples. Lusid's design seems to be the most...
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