My original router (the white one) I had wanted this to fit under my desk so I can put the modem on top of it. But it was too wide to fit under desk. I had one of these containing some of my old legos The dimensions looked right for the MB to fit so why not. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Materials: PCI riser ISA riser Micro AT power supply converted to normal AT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Testing: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The outsides: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The guts: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stuff to do: Add duct the fans to cool below the nic. Add a reset button Clean up edges of cutouts Add second nic for future broadband ability
Yep... loads of fun. I had to remake it 3 times. The first rev of it had the socket soldered directly onto the edge board., unfortunately this did not raise the card high enough to clear any slots. The card kept on breaking solder joints on the inside corner..... The second one I had built only the outside edges and started to think that this was not going to hold so i rebuild it again.... The fun part was filling in all 98 wires to connect the edge to the slot. The slot came from an old MB I had lying around and the connecter was sawed off a 3c619b. And yes I did break well burned the MB that the slot came from.
Here are more views of that ISA riser. The thicker 18-awg wires are for the power and grounds. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is how it is wired up
uhm, bare copper? they do make insulated wire you know personally, soldering that much in one day would give me a migraine. one of the three day, puke-y kind.
Yes bare copper insulated wire would not have looked as good, and its much easer to solder with out the insulation. What you see there did not take more than an hour to put together but it was a pain in the *** to fill in the rest of the wires. I had originally thought I would have to glue the edge connector to the proto board but it held nicely just using the solder joints. That monitor recently became a spar because it won’t do 1024x768 so it was replaced with one that does. Now for the reset button I have no idea where to put it! I could put it on the front or the side with the wires.
