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This project was an '08 mothers day gift! ( Hi Mom ) It uses a micro ATX mobo and pretends its a pico-ATX by conserving space through laying the PSU over the graphics slot and the PCI slots.
Built the box with pine molding and project pine from the local home-store, and the windows were cut acrylic.
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Seriously though, I hope to be a power of example, because if someone w/ mediocre skills, and lousy equipment can put together something like this then anybody can do it!
I really dont see why you want to build a computer out of wood?, and it does really look bad when you have to plug in on the top of the computer...
The box sits under a wooden desk, hence the wood / acrylic theme fits the room nicely, and the cables have to go up to the keyboard / monitor / USB toys anyhow... Putting the inputs on top also allowed for the smallest possible form factor for this lot of equipment which was one of my main design criteria. One thing that unfortunately doesn't come across in these pictures is just how small the box is. Its just slightly larger then a micro-ATX motherboard, and about as wide a standard PSU.
8/10 from me
PS- what did u use to make the perfect cuts in the plexi for the i/o panel? when i try to cut my plexi like that it cracks.
Really nice work!
Dont like wood as it keeps heat in, so dont see the point in the time and effort in it