Q: What do you call someone who spends more than $3.48 on a new PC case?
A: A perfectly normal, rational person.
This is actually a staging rig for upgrades for the kids’ PC. I’m upgrading the motherboard, switching to an SSD, and switching from Windows 10 Pro 32 bit to 64 bit (I know), and this allows me to do so with minimal disruptions to their Minecraft machine. Also, orange milk crate!
I only gave this six switch 2600 a good cleaning and added a power light. A resistor inline with the LED keeps the LED from pulling all of the current necessary to run the console. A composite video output may be in this unit’s future.
Self-adhesive documentation was necessary here because in card readers, the card’s magnetic stripe almost never faces down. Why stray from a perfectly good design convention?
I wasn’t happy with my Western Digital USB drive’s creaky plastic case, so I hastily hacked together some scrap wood decided to take it in a different direction.
I have the feeling that we’ve overloaded the display here.
It’s a Light Sixer Sears Tele-Games with a thin Mini-ITX motherboard and a 120gb SSD. It’s a Celeron 847 (not exactly a hoss), but it doesn’t do too poorly with “vanilla” Minecraft on Windows 10.
Since these pics I’ve cut out more of the bottom of the unit and routed the cables more tightly for cooling. I also added a blue power LED that needs a resistor, as it’s blindingly bright at night.
