For awhile, I had darkside's bits (motherboard, cpu, power supply, ram, nic) in a drawer, hooked up so if I ever needed to test something I could easily plug in a harddrive and away I go. Last week my aunt's harddrive was dying, so I hooked up her harddrive and a CDRom with Knoppix so I could get her files off when the OS wouldn't boot.
Sadly, I changed bedrooms (more on that later), and now I have no internet connection near my desk (just wireless for my laptops).
So I figured I needed a computer that I could store in my bedroom, but easily truck around if I have to test stuff. After minutes of deliberation, I pulled out a shoe-box which I thought was a new and unique idea. Sadly, according to Blaze, it's a common thing to do. But whatever, I still like it.
I actually mounted the motherboard on the lid using pointy screws. I am going to put glue over them to help hold, plus keep myself from getting poked. I mounted the power-supply with 3 normal case-screws.
Anyways, without further ado, here's some pictures of darkside, now built within a Wal-Mart shoe box:
http://www.javaop.com/~ron/ospap/show_category.php?category_id=35And what the hell, it's my site.... here's the images: