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    Project: Built-In

    For some background, I'm renovating a home for myself right now. It's a trailer-shaped home, with a kitchen at one end, a bedroom at the other, and a living room in the middle, with a little square cut out for a bathroom. It's a fairly decent sized living room, with enough room for a table and chairs, bookshelves along the walls, media center, and plenty of room left over. Also, the entire home is being done in a Gentleman's Club/Asian Minimalist style. I'm basically creating a minimalist atmosphere with clean, straight lines, and Japanese-inspired furniture. But, it's going to have a little twist. I want the enitre home to feel somewhat like a library, because I am an avid bibliophile. So, it will have a lot of dark woods, a built-in bookshelf/ humidor/ bar in the living room, leather used in different ways, and so on. It will basically come off as a very clean, comfortable atmosphere. But, it also needs to be technologically up to speed with me. Since I am very much a technophile as well.

    So, I need a htpc. I have the flatscreen, and am getting speakers to build into the walls, for invisible surround sound. Now, I just need the components, which will all be built into one unit, with a little eccentricity to boot.

    I picked up an old valve control unit from a lng plant that my stepdad tore down and scrapped, and am going to use that as the htpc. It's basically a 2u, maybe more like 2.5u, rackmount case. The plan is to leave on the facade, after cleaning it up a bit, and use the existing knobs and whatnot as rheometers to control the fans, and some switches to control components.

    I'll get up some pictures of my progress so far... in a bit.

    If you have any suggestions for different things to do with this, that go along with my idea of having an htpc, and all that, just let me know.

    -l8a
    Last edited by silven; 03-07-2005 at 02:30 AM.

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    Alright, so, first things first. A few pictures of the case.








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    And some inside pics:






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    Alright, so after breaking it down to it's parts...



    I began to grind off the crappy finish and rust spots...






    Bare metal baby

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    Wow that looks like it got a bit battered

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    haha. no joke, that thing is torn to shreds. i'm thinking i won't use the outside bit, only the inside frame. it's closer to the 2u size i want... and the outside shell is heavy ...
    Last edited by silven; 04-07-2005 at 11:11 PM.

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    Sorry for no updates. Basically, I've been drafting hundreds of possible airflow diagrams for this. Since it will be built into the wall, it will be pulling lots of hot air unless its ducted correctly, and its going to be like an oven in that wall much of the year round... because I live in Texas. So I've basically figured out how I want the air to flow through it, and the proper placing of all of the components and whatnot, now I just need to iron out the last few details (cabling, power, structural integrity, etc.). After that, I'll finish sanding it down and then primer-coat the frame black.

    I'm shooting for plexi top and bottom, as well as on both sides. We'll see how it all pans out.

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    I'm not an avid reader of Project Logs but this one has caught my interest. Keep the info coming
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    I too am very interested to see how this project ends up mate.
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    Haha. Sorry.. this project is pending for my contest mod. Project: Fourth Street

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