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Starting on a new and ambitious case mod. Sorry about the lack of pictures, I'm working on them.
Start with a craftsman toolbox. I received one from my parents last christmas for keeping my tools organized. This is the one I currently have:
http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/prod...OL&fromAuto=YES&bidsite=CRAFT&pid=00959782000
While away attending school, I only took the top toolbox, a 3 drawer red craftsman...the bottom roll-cart I left home because I keep painting and air tools in there, and I have no air source nor need for such tools while stuck in a dorm room.
I also had, sitting in a drawer in my dorm, my old laptop, a toshbia 2775XDVD, 850 Mhz, DVD drive, Video out port, 5 gb hdd, but plastic that was thoroughly trashed - hinges had broken the plastic base, cracks everywhere, plastic corners mashed and silver paint rubbed off. Realistically, a good-running laptop whose cosmetics had seen far better days.
I began by removing the plastic around the screen and mainboard, and for a while let it just sit like this - a bare mobo, LCD, inverter, drives and keyboard lying on my dorm room desk to confuse my roommate...usually had a screen saver running just to show off that it *still* worked.
2 Days ago (Oct 13th) I got the idea to integrate it into my toolbox.
I started by attaching the LCD to the toolbox lid, lower LH corner, using JB weld at 4 corners, with the inverter below (attached to the bottom of the lid) and cables running down into the top of the toolbox
I also attached the speakers from the underside of the plastic laptop surround, which sound pretty good and have their own plastic cases (presumably for amplifying bass from such tiny speakers). These were attached in the rear of the top of the toolbox, facing forward. Wires aren't *quite* long enough to attach both to the mainboard and have the mainboard where I want it so they'll need to be lengthened in the eventual future
I attached the toshiba "status" monitor to the top of the heatsink...this is a little module with caps lock and num lock LED's and an internet button. Not really important but I don't want it flopping around. Used JB weld sparingly for the job and put it on a location where its 1) removable and 2) there wasn't any airflow while the laptop was in its case anyway. Doesn't interfere with the heatsink fan, which is important to keep the bugger from overheating.
Removed the floppy entirely for the time being (just don't need it) and pulled the DVD rom's front cover, leaving the LED and eject microswitch exposed, but allowing the mainboard to clear the toolbox lock and be placed where I want it.
*more to come soon*
Start with a craftsman toolbox. I received one from my parents last christmas for keeping my tools organized. This is the one I currently have:
http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/prod...OL&fromAuto=YES&bidsite=CRAFT&pid=00959782000
While away attending school, I only took the top toolbox, a 3 drawer red craftsman...the bottom roll-cart I left home because I keep painting and air tools in there, and I have no air source nor need for such tools while stuck in a dorm room.
I also had, sitting in a drawer in my dorm, my old laptop, a toshbia 2775XDVD, 850 Mhz, DVD drive, Video out port, 5 gb hdd, but plastic that was thoroughly trashed - hinges had broken the plastic base, cracks everywhere, plastic corners mashed and silver paint rubbed off. Realistically, a good-running laptop whose cosmetics had seen far better days.
I began by removing the plastic around the screen and mainboard, and for a while let it just sit like this - a bare mobo, LCD, inverter, drives and keyboard lying on my dorm room desk to confuse my roommate...usually had a screen saver running just to show off that it *still* worked.
2 Days ago (Oct 13th) I got the idea to integrate it into my toolbox.
I started by attaching the LCD to the toolbox lid, lower LH corner, using JB weld at 4 corners, with the inverter below (attached to the bottom of the lid) and cables running down into the top of the toolbox
I also attached the speakers from the underside of the plastic laptop surround, which sound pretty good and have their own plastic cases (presumably for amplifying bass from such tiny speakers). These were attached in the rear of the top of the toolbox, facing forward. Wires aren't *quite* long enough to attach both to the mainboard and have the mainboard where I want it so they'll need to be lengthened in the eventual future
I attached the toshiba "status" monitor to the top of the heatsink...this is a little module with caps lock and num lock LED's and an internet button. Not really important but I don't want it flopping around. Used JB weld sparingly for the job and put it on a location where its 1) removable and 2) there wasn't any airflow while the laptop was in its case anyway. Doesn't interfere with the heatsink fan, which is important to keep the bugger from overheating.
Removed the floppy entirely for the time being (just don't need it) and pulled the DVD rom's front cover, leaving the LED and eject microswitch exposed, but allowing the mainboard to clear the toolbox lock and be placed where I want it.
*more to come soon*
As you can see from the pics on the left side of the screen, has some pretty cool capabilities with regards to engine tuning.
