Amiga CDTV x86 Project

Hi all once again.

My last project was to use a broken CDTV case and re purpose it into an everyday usable machine.

Surprisingly there is very little space inside these cases for a full PC build, but we'll squeeze it all in somehow ;)

After having an empty CDTV case (thanks Michael Mclaughlin ) with no front panel i was wondering what to do with it, the CDTV case to me at least looks great and i loved the way it was designed to live in a nice stereo stack system, looking right in any living room. A quick shout out for a broken front panel and Timothy James Faloon came to the rescue, I now had a complete case although scratched dented and broken it was a very good start :)

The case was powder coated in satin black

Now onto the front panel, this needed to be cut to accept a full size optical drive, the cracks were backed with an aluminium strip, then filled, sanded and painted, another aluminium strip was placed in front to tie the front panel in with the new wireless keyboard

A new label was designed for the keyboard to tie in with the main unit

The rear panel (never underestimate the awesomeness of a cardboard mock up :D ) CAD drawn from the cardboard version, water jet cut and powder coated in satin black

Beautiful right?

The inside of the case had to be flattened to get enough height to mount the motherboard, then the case was drilled and tapped to suit the motherboard mountings