That's what I'm "Tolkein" aboot

The project now coming along rather quickly I have ordered the final part: 512 megs of system memory. Hopefully this will arrive within the next week.

I as described in a prior post I detached some LEDs from the case of an old PC, however I made the mistake of stripping the plastic coding off with the Dremel. So what I did was take a couple of the screw holes from the front of the old PC case panel, hollow them out and fit the LEDs into the plastic. Then used hot glue to attach this to the front panel of the VCR. The Power LED to where the VCR's power LED used to be and the HDD LED where the VCR's play LED used to be (oddly enough). Here are some images:






One thing I still need is an extension cable for the 20-pin mobo molex power connector (I'm sure that has an official term) because the PSU's cable simply doesn't reach. Even with that missing I decided to position the top peice with the PSU such that the cable would reach and get the memory out of my existing computer to make sure the mobo still works after the slight amount of abuse it has been through. The resulting organization of parts isn't very pretty but I had success! I was going to test on a monitor but as it turns out there is not enough room for the VGA connector in the case so I connected my video card and hooked it up a RCA cable to a regular old TV, some images:






I also managed to attach the CD-ROM throgh a rather elegant method: the built-in screw holes on the bottom of a standard CD-ROM (and most other 5 1/4" devices I would guess). I did drill one additional hole into the bottom peice for the additional screw. So the optical drive will be attached by no less then 3 screws. I don't have any spacers between the bottom peice and the optical drive so extra noise from vibrations etc. could be a concern (the bottom peice is metal).



The next problem was attaching the HDD. I finally found a solution to this, albeit not nearly as "elegant" as the above mentioned CD-ROM: I attached the HDD to the lighting panel/covering I was going to use as a shelf on the bottom and put this on top of the CDROM. Then I screwed in some extra pieces of plastic to the side screw holes of the CDROM and leveraged the shelf to attach it in place.

The follow are images of the HDD attached to the light paneling via convenient screws:






And these are some images of how the light paneling material was attached to the HDD. That material is really hard to take a picture of because it reflects light so well. That and I'm not that good of a photographer.