Project - CLOWNED!!

[MDCS]

Make the window an outline of BOZO's head, with hair.

[TheGreatSatan]

This morning I set the slot loading drive into place.

Then I painted the top and side edges of the front red.

I put on my last coat of clear on the panel...

And on top.

[Redbeard]

have you tried to place the front bezel on the case yet? Just wondering cause I know latex is really thick.

How aweome would it be if the computer played some circus or "clown-like" music when it was turned on? Anyways great work so far!

[TheGreatSatan]

The edging is finished

And the slot loader looks good.

I decided to use rivets instead of screws on the right panel. Nothing BIG.

Next, I did choose to go with the open clown mouth blow hole idea. Thanks everyone.

I'm NO artist, but I'll do my best. It's the thought that counts.

And the nose will be the Power button.

The face work is next.

[Cannibal23]

here is another idea for ya. if your window is big enough and you can see the botom of your case. see if you can find some figureines of circus clowns and set up a little circus ring in there. you can get super bright led cannons as little spot lights. she might appreciate that for estetic value i dont know.

[Cannibal23]

have you tried to place the front bezel on the case yet? Just wondering cause I know latex is really thick.

How aweome would it be if the computer played some circus or "clown-like" music when it was turned on? Anyways great work so far!

im pretty sure that you can get a little PIC to play music like you were saying. perhaps you could even get a cathode kit that has a sound sensor and they would flash when music is playing or whatever

[TheGreatSatan]

I'll have to find some circus wav's and load them into Windows\Media.

[public_eyesore]

nice, haven't looked at this yet cause it said the word clown, and im like "that's gay" , but it looks like it's turning out to be really cool. Also i didn't notice it was made by you, so that was a deciding factor at looking at this lol.

[TheGreatSatan]

I bought a Lite-On DVD drive. I painted it white with the primer.

Then red to match the other.

In she goes!

I'm gonna make a slight change in direction. My daughter wants to help me on this mod. She wants to help on Grandma's present. I let her pick the clown face to draw. Here's the first one that got pitched.

And then the one we went with. I let her do the coloring (in marker) then I applied a clear coat over that.

For the blow hole, I'm trying to see if the fan will fit between the case and the front bezel. Otherwise I'll have to mount it inside and then fill the gap with something....

Lastly, the front spring will need to be replaced. It lacks any "spring". When you push the button it stays down.

Here’s the front fan mounted and powered. I connected it to a test system to get it running.

[TheGreatSatan]

The motherboard arrived yesterday. It's a FIC K7MNF-64 with nVidia N-Force 2. I'm not sure if I'm actually gonna be buying her a video card so for now there will be onboard video. The processor is the Athlon XP 2800+ which will come later.