LA_MERC_LaTech
March 24th, 2008, 07:23 AM
Ok...so a while back I bought an old-style Thomas radio (looked kinda like the St Louis arch, or the old "camel back style" radio) that was a modern remake...didn't want to actually ruin an old radio, you see. Anyway, I bought this thing at a garage sale or something like that for $5 for the strict purpose of making a computer out of it.
My goal was to find a bunch of mini parts and use them...and to try and incorporate some "newness" into the design or body...so that you could clearly tell it wasn't what it was.
I gutted the thing and then purchased a couple Bulgin light switched from FrozenCPU. After waiting for a couple weeks for the messed up order to be fixed, I installed the switches...and finally completed the computer last night:
http://www.lamerc.com/uploads/Radio1.jpg
http://www.lamerc.com/uploads/Radio2.jpg
http://www.lamerc.com/uploads/Radio3.jpg
The motherboard I used was the ePia M10000...a little older than I would have liked, but it was cheap (DVD used for size comparison)
http://www.lamerc.com/uploads/Radio4.jpg
Got it all hooked up in the front room. It's presently hooked up to my receiver and can get on the internet etc. Copied all of my music over to it (60GB...thanks rook!) last night and listened to music this morning:
http://www.lamerc.com/uploads/Radio5.jpg
http://www.lamerc.com/uploads/Radio6.jpg
Now, there are several cosmetic things I want to do...there are still 2 holes in the front and the place where the tuner display needs to have something done to it...but all-in-all...I think it's looking good so far.
My goal was to find a bunch of mini parts and use them...and to try and incorporate some "newness" into the design or body...so that you could clearly tell it wasn't what it was.
I gutted the thing and then purchased a couple Bulgin light switched from FrozenCPU. After waiting for a couple weeks for the messed up order to be fixed, I installed the switches...and finally completed the computer last night:
http://www.lamerc.com/uploads/Radio1.jpg
http://www.lamerc.com/uploads/Radio2.jpg
http://www.lamerc.com/uploads/Radio3.jpg
The motherboard I used was the ePia M10000...a little older than I would have liked, but it was cheap (DVD used for size comparison)
http://www.lamerc.com/uploads/Radio4.jpg
Got it all hooked up in the front room. It's presently hooked up to my receiver and can get on the internet etc. Copied all of my music over to it (60GB...thanks rook!) last night and listened to music this morning:
http://www.lamerc.com/uploads/Radio5.jpg
http://www.lamerc.com/uploads/Radio6.jpg
Now, there are several cosmetic things I want to do...there are still 2 holes in the front and the place where the tuner display needs to have something done to it...but all-in-all...I think it's looking good so far.