Hi there!
May I introduce you to my new and already beloved Macminitosh? This project is nearly finished, and I thought I'd share some pics before writing a longer blog post or article (in french, though).
Basically, I got the idea last year when I saw what those guys had done with a Mini and a SE/30 case. I instantly knew I had to get myself something similar as a media center and home server.
At the time I had two SE in my collection, one of which had a broken CRT. So I made some heavy component switching between them, in order to have one nearly perfect SE (in a slightly bad looking case), and one nearly perfect case (with some spare parts…
).
I then bought a second hand 8.4'' LCD monitor from eBay, a second hand CoreDuo Mac mini, some Dremel tools and here it is!
Please note that my goal was to keep the outside of the case as much as possible intact. I only cut one hole in the front for the DVD drive, one hole in the back for the power switch, and a big hideous hole in the top which I thought would become the coolest iPod Nano dock in the world, until I bought myself an iPhone 3G which wouldn't fit.
It reads CD, DVD and floppies (no luck with 400k and 800k, though), can use both USB and ADB peripherals thanks to a Griffin iMate, has dual screen thanks to a Kensington USB adapter and will soon serve me as a gorgeous vintage looking media center plugged to my TV. I'm still not happy with the DVI-HDMI and optical audio cables that go through the once-SCSI port, but I think the rest is pretty good-looking!
Here are the pics! - on flickr
Here are the pics as a local gallery.
May I introduce you to my new and already beloved Macminitosh? This project is nearly finished, and I thought I'd share some pics before writing a longer blog post or article (in french, though).
Basically, I got the idea last year when I saw what those guys had done with a Mini and a SE/30 case. I instantly knew I had to get myself something similar as a media center and home server.
At the time I had two SE in my collection, one of which had a broken CRT. So I made some heavy component switching between them, in order to have one nearly perfect SE (in a slightly bad looking case), and one nearly perfect case (with some spare parts…
).I then bought a second hand 8.4'' LCD monitor from eBay, a second hand CoreDuo Mac mini, some Dremel tools and here it is!
Please note that my goal was to keep the outside of the case as much as possible intact. I only cut one hole in the front for the DVD drive, one hole in the back for the power switch, and a big hideous hole in the top which I thought would become the coolest iPod Nano dock in the world, until I bought myself an iPhone 3G which wouldn't fit.
It reads CD, DVD and floppies (no luck with 400k and 800k, though), can use both USB and ADB peripherals thanks to a Griffin iMate, has dual screen thanks to a Kensington USB adapter and will soon serve me as a gorgeous vintage looking media center plugged to my TV. I'm still not happy with the DVI-HDMI and optical audio cables that go through the once-SCSI port, but I think the rest is pretty good-looking!
Here are the pics! - on flickr
Here are the pics as a local gallery.