Wooden Box PC

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So I was thinking about a month ago if i could actually put a PC into a wooden box. We had an old Dell Inspiron 560 lying around with a pentium, 4gb of ram and a 500gb 7200rpm hdd. So, I bought a jig saw and some hot glue and got working and this is what became of it. The thermals are probably terrible, it's running Ubuntu and probably won't do much else. Its more of novelty and a by-product of boredom than anything else. Unfortunately I did not take any pictures during the build process because the idea just slipped my mind. The weirdly shaped black box in the second picture is the power switch. I stripped that off the dell case. In order to actually turn it on, you have to stick your finger into the hole on the left hand side. Honestly, the hardest part was getting the Io shield to line up with the mobo, I had to jerry rig it a tad bit, but as long as it stay in place fingers crossed. The original idea was to have the SD card reader and optical drive but that didn't end up happening sadly. Hope you enjoy, it was a blast to build. Love to hear what you guys think or answer any questions.

 

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[xmarvlouslie]

That's actually a really cool idea. Have you figured out how you're going to do air flow with it? 

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1 hour ago, xmarvlouslie said:

That's actually a really cool idea. Have you figured out how you're going to do air flow with it? 

honestly im just thinking of cutting a hole in the top and stick a fan there and having it on intake