Woohoo - Big design boost!
Ok so I was having a little scour of the old interwebs n stuff, looking for more specific information regarding size, dimensions etc and came across a complete set of plans for the whole thing - some of you might think it's cheating but I'm not one to look a gift horse in the mouth and this will bring the project on in leaps and bounds. The only problem with them, is everything is in inches and with me being a modern man, I work in mm lol - oh well - lots of x254 calculations to do :facepalm:
Anyway - check these out....
The external drives are going to sit behind a door where that recess is under the head on the front. The tail is going to be a wireless LAN antenna - I'll have to sacrifice the chrome and extending bits of the antenna and it'll be plain black plastic but I kinda want the antenna to DO something - although, I am vaguely considering putting an FM radio in there - when I say vaguely, it didn't even occur to me until I started writing this....
Thinking about some kind of perspex/painted steel sandwich for the logo so the edges glow, probably just white but not decided yet on that
As mentioned previously, this is where either the 10" LCD or the window is going to go - I'm leaning heavily towards the window at the moment because of the reliability issues (and image quality) on the 2 10" IBM LCD's I have
There's those buttons I was talking aboutI don't see the head doing much other than just being there - I was thinking about a couple of USB ports as my son is always plugging his phone into the USB to upload ringtones n pics and it'd be nice for them to be easily accessible
And finally a nice template for the logo...
Should certainly make things a LOT easier and should speed up progress - I was initially expecting this to take a LONG LONG time - now I think it'll just take a LONG time :p