Custom PC start switch?

[Kloudkicker]

Could someone help me design a custom PC start switch so that I would have to turn a key, flip a switch and press a button (after flipping switch and turning key little LCD screen would say primed) with a couple extra switches to specify what I want it to do (reset, shut down, turn on)? I know it's a bit silly but I think it'd be cool in the long run. I would need help making (or designing and sending to a company to be made) an enclosure for the electronics, programming the arduino (I think programming is required, yes?). But I am good with soldering General PC knowledge.

P.S. Switch would look something like attached picture 

[GDRRiley]

a raspberry pie some switches and some basic programming should allow you to do it. first go find a box of switches that you like

[Zando_]

I don't know how to go about it, but it shouldn't me too hard to make. I'd look into 3D printing the enclosure and misc parts, then find a makerspace (I think that's what they're called) near you with a 3D printer and use that. It would be cool. Especially if you hook it up to a PC with hardware legendary for overheating and spontaneously combusting. 

[Tsuki]

14 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

a raspberry pie some switches and some basic programming should allow you to do it. first go find a box of switches that you like

wouldnt even need the pi.

just hook up the switches in series to the computers front panel power and itll work just fine.

really it would be super easy

[Verrm]

Yes, its not really that hard. You can even do something funny that will work, but inside it will look flimsy (no one looks inside though). Buy a remote switch, there are plenty of those to buy online. Then get the box you like. Glue remote inside the box aligning it so that when you push central button the box-button pushes the remote-button. So youll need remote right under your box-button.

 

If this does not work then you can disassemble the remote and instead of normal buttons solder to the remote the physical box-switches.

 

If you want the buttons to work only when the key is inserted and turned then you'll have to align the cables in such a way that the cables will connect only when the key is turned (without it electricity wont flow, so the buttons won't work). You'll have to have a separate battery and cable circuit to the LED that will not be part of the circuit between buttons and remote.

 

Good luck, it's perfectly doable with a basic understanding of electricity. The only issue might be to find a remote in which you can switch buttons to those in the box.

[jonnylaw13]

something like this may be a good place for you to start

 

then you do something like this