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The Idea to Build this Case
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I came up with this design when I was visiting a computer-fair in Utrecht, the Netherlands. On a Friday, I passed by a Chaintech sales table, with my fellow case modder T-Mug, where they sold used motherboards for only 5 euro’s each. This gave me idea to cover a case with mainboards. I returned to the fair a couple days later, and bought 3 big boxes, filled with approximately 40 mainboards, most of which were broken.
I paid only 12 euros for all three big boxes. At a other sales-stand I bought a cheap, and rather standard looking case, also for 12 euros. Once we arrived back home, T-Mug helped me out by first testing all of the mainboards, and the few that were still operational were put aside. With the rest of the broken main boards and the newly bought case, I started my case modding.
The Beginning
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First, I removed the left and right side panels, followed by the top panel of the brand new case.
I picked two main boards from the lot, and fitted these two to the right hand side of the case, directly on to the frame. I screwed the main board firmly with screws, for which I pre-drilled the holes in the frame.With two smaller main board I covered the rest of the right side. Since the main boards where sticking out by now, I took my Proxxon micro-drill (a sort ultra-Dremel) with the fibreglass enforced cutting blade, and cut off the exceeding parts. When the main boards fitted, I screwed these also directly to the frame.
On the same manner, I covered the bottom part of the front, but in the top part of the front the CD-RW had found it’s place, so that should be cut out of the main board, which should cover it.
Stealthing the CD-RW
The Philips CD-Rw series 1600 had to be placed in the case, without being noticed prominently, it should be ‘assimilated’. Therefore, I had to ‘stealth’ the device.
  
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With the Proxxon cutting tool, I cut out a square, slightly larger than the front of the CD-Rw, and the part I glued on the front of the drawer of the device. With a small capisitor, which I mounted directly above the open-button of the player, you can open the CD-RW manually.
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