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Party-Box...Countertop cab w/ laptop & flat screen
babydickonboard:
hack on!
theCoder:
Playing Paper Doll
One recommendation I read over and over again relates to mocking up your CP with cardboard before cutting wood. Tonight I gave it a go regarding the profile of the cab, considering the layout of the CPU, Monitor, and trackball. I used a piece of unprinted newspaper (end of a roll picked up at my local newspaper printing site). It really gave me a lot to think about and helped me ponder the speakers, marquee, air flow, etc.
I learned the following:
1) I'll probably want to force or draw air between the CPU and monitor.
2) There's plenty of depth for my trackball & joystick.
3) The monitor can be moved back 1" to provide more room between the trackball and monitor. Apparently people smack their fingers playing golf games? This may be a problem but I'm not into this genre of games.
4) My original concept is much too blocky. With all the major components drawn on the paper, I freeform sketched a layout I've been toying with lately. I recently saw a driving cab in the bowling alley down the street with this type of profile. This design gets rid of the marquee, but gets me this cool profile and carves another 2" off the height. I never would have tried something this radical without first playing paper dolls.
Comments?
vrf:
I really wanted to have more curves on my design, too, but in the end decided it would be too difficult to build.
The profile pieces are easy to cut up all curvy and such, but it's harder to build the cross sections. Maybe you're thinking of bending material somehow?
Anyhow, great hacking job. This will be a cool little cab.
TOK:
Great project. I liked your initial design better than the new one, but I prefer a traditional looking cabinet.
markc74:
Hi there.
I really like this idea - I've been toying doing something very similar for a while with a vertical screen (my in-progress full-size cab is horizontal only).
How are you planning on covering the monitor i.e. bezel?
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