After Reading and doing some research i have decided to give this a try I have this project Low Cost a must I want to have all my mp3's connected via a pc to my Stereo to be abled to be controlled with a remote and to be able to turn of the pc with my remote control that controls all my AV equipment List of supply's Old ATX case FREE PII motherboard FREE PII 266 MHZ CPU FREE Memory 96 MB FREE 250 Watt PSU FREE 3 com 10/100 card FREE 5.1 Sound Card 39.99 ATI 32mb TV/VIDEO 15.00 Wireless Remote 7.00 CDROM 24x FREE disk drive FREE Project shold fit in the AV Cabinet MAX size is the Regular Component With heigh not restricted but would like it to be as small a foot print as possible this is the space i have to work with this is what i started with first take apart an old computer trash the old case it does not fit in the cabinet remove everything and start with only the mother board and find out what is the tallest point of the biggest card then ad cards notice ati video/tv card has not arrived from (ebay ) then nic card then sound notice the SPDIF OUT wich is what i was most intersted in the MP3 box this is the high point i hope with out a video card i start the layout but first gather the tools up The Materials : After Some Considerations I have Chosen local supplies ( off the Shelf ) to make the case Plan Make the case from Acrilyc ( Crystalite from GE ) 11 X 14 x 1/8 6 sheets at $1.74 each from The Sucky Depot ( HD ) Should be easy to work with for first project unlike others I have read the best advise from Bit tech hands down Oh yeah legal stuff : ( This material is copyright to me and this site i dont want to find it any where else with out written permission period ) The Layout Process starts trial and error is the best when you dont like to sketckup or the old paper and pencil method and this saves time from drawing to production these are possible configurations with disk and optical drives notice power supply upper left it has been gutted out from the case to fit the width restrictions I have decided not to have an external psu this is an birds eyeview with MB board mounted on old tray from the case notice the power supply is in there top of isa slots well with the acrylic set up generous 6 in tall and 11 in in depth well with in the requirements Contruction Stage Soon on the works
MP3 AV set top box HTPC part 2 well the construction phase has begun Already i have run in to only problem the power supply can be exposed but i dont want to get shocked so a full acrylic box will be built and the whole case will be made of the acrylic
I didn't really look at all your pictures, but from what I've seen, this looks great. Are you going to tint the glass or light it up with LEDs/CCFLs? And if you are worried about loading times, why not make the main images load automatically, and have links for the not-so-important images? That would make viewing the thread much easier.
MP3 AV set top box HTPC how do i have the images load up automatically ? what is the code i have tried this <img scr = http://www.hamlesh.com/~publicgallery/albums/public_gallery/stereo_rack_005.jpg">
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contruction phase this is the enclosed acrilyc case stripped down from the oroginal metal case with an small CPU fan another view
making the psu smallest as possible More pictures of the power suppy mod this is a 300 watt psu hope it keeps cool enough The board is mounted using MB standoffs
testing the psu inside this acrilyc unfinished case before procedding the completed product under temp testing I fount an old 486 fan and i will try to use that one since it is free and it should be quitetter compared to stock psu fan while doing this i found a 24 volt output HUMM what can i do with this output The Case top view BAck view
nOW THE cASE The Case top view BAck view here both sides are up and the back is ready now testing the temp of the power supply with all sides temporary 1 fan I f you want to know I could not find the Tap cement all of the rest are using so i tried all of the shelves glues and found Liquid Nails Perfect Glue 2 worked only one side effect is a slight fogging up to the joints will work on tring to remove this problem . the power supply has been sanded round on the edges not polished yet polishing will be the final step in this project
In my cardboard-PC I have a PSU that is only cooled with a socket 7 CPU cooler. The PSU is 250W I think, and it runs only a mobo (w/ PII slot CPU/sound/graphics) and a hard disk. But the PSU runs very hot. How did yours do in the temp-test?
TEMP TEST THE TEST SO FAR ARE GOOD TEMPS OF 101 MAX WITH WINAMP AND SETI PROGRAM RUNNING AT THE SAME TIME I WILL ADD A SET OF SMALL FANS WITH SOME KIND OF FAN BUS i WANT IT TO BE REALLY QUIET SO MAYBE ILL ELIMINATE ALL DRIVES NOS ESENTIAL TO THE FINAL PROJECT THIS WILL ALLOW ME TO GENERATE LESS HEAT AND RUN ONLY TWO FANS
working on the layout I have one problem after gluing the case parts i got this white thing on it does anyone know how to remove them
Looks cool i hope all that white goasting some off What did you glue the plexi with and how strong did it turn out ?
