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R/C Car PCs.
I was in a case mod phase, doing all sorts of crazy stuff from windows, to water-cooled systems, and various paint-jobs.
My first one was a Rusty Wallace Miller Light Taurus, using a Protoform NASCAR 1/10 Taurus body, and some Pro-Line 1/10 pan-car foamies - the decals were all custom made through PaintShop Pro X (my go-to graphics app) and printed on adhesive-backed photo paper. The chassis is a custom piece I built using a scrap piece of 3mm aluminum sheet, with the wheels affixed using some angle stock. The PC was an ASUS MicroATX mobo with an AMD K6/2-550 CPU, 16GB RAM, a 2.1 GB HDD and laptop CD/ROM.
I just thought it would be something cool to add to my extensive Rusty Wallace collection (the wife went overkill on the die-casts and other cool stuff)
A friend on a Tech Forum I used to frequent asked me if I could build one for his nephew who was a huge Jeff Gordon fan, and consequently had medulo blastoma (childhood brain cancer). I jumped on the chance and built him a cool machine, loaded up with NASCAR Racing and even modded the monitor, keyboard, and mouse they'd provided. Sadly, Kevin lost his battle, but got to enjoy his machine for a few years.
I improved the design by using a Mini-ITX mobo (with a much smaller power supply) and had the CD/ROM spit out under the driver side so he wouldn't have to pull the cover off to change media. He LOVED it!
Got it all set-up in Kevin's room - he was SO happy, and I enjoyed the heck out of building it.
Didn't know where else to put this, but I say it still R/C related, since I used R/C parts in the build. LOL!
I was in a case mod phase, doing all sorts of crazy stuff from windows, to water-cooled systems, and various paint-jobs.
My first one was a Rusty Wallace Miller Light Taurus, using a Protoform NASCAR 1/10 Taurus body, and some Pro-Line 1/10 pan-car foamies - the decals were all custom made through PaintShop Pro X (my go-to graphics app) and printed on adhesive-backed photo paper. The chassis is a custom piece I built using a scrap piece of 3mm aluminum sheet, with the wheels affixed using some angle stock. The PC was an ASUS MicroATX mobo with an AMD K6/2-550 CPU, 16GB RAM, a 2.1 GB HDD and laptop CD/ROM.
I just thought it would be something cool to add to my extensive Rusty Wallace collection (the wife went overkill on the die-casts and other cool stuff)
A friend on a Tech Forum I used to frequent asked me if I could build one for his nephew who was a huge Jeff Gordon fan, and consequently had medulo blastoma (childhood brain cancer). I jumped on the chance and built him a cool machine, loaded up with NASCAR Racing and even modded the monitor, keyboard, and mouse they'd provided. Sadly, Kevin lost his battle, but got to enjoy his machine for a few years.
I improved the design by using a Mini-ITX mobo (with a much smaller power supply) and had the CD/ROM spit out under the driver side so he wouldn't have to pull the cover off to change media. He LOVED it!
Got it all set-up in Kevin's room - he was SO happy, and I enjoyed the heck out of building it.
Didn't know where else to put this, but I say it still R/C related, since I used R/C parts in the build. LOL!
