How to build a gingerbread computer Introduction Help guide and Trouble-shouter Power Supply DVD and Hard Drive System fans System case Put together Summary

22/12-05 | Henrik Olsson | milohenke@64bits.se

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System case

Now, we are going to make the system case. Due to size reasons, we choose to build a mini-ITX case. The building of the case and its fans is, along with the motherboard, the most time consuming, mainly because of the difficulties with handling large pieces of gingerbread, since it's easily broken. In particular the back-part was shown to be very fragile; we had to try three times until we succeeded.

We start by making the front part of the case. For that we need three pieces; one piece for the top, one in-between, and one beneath. The pieces are then glued together; see the pictures above. We then make a front for the optical drive and use Bassetts to illustrate black and green buttons.

We glue the DVD-player, HDD and front fan to the back of the front part. To minimize the risk that the DVD-player and HDD fall off, we glue small parts of gingerbread under both of them.

On the top right you will see the rear end of the computer case. It has been equipped with four holes; one for the power supply, one for the two 60 mm fans and two for the back ends of the graphics cards. Please note that you have to be very careful when handling the rear end of the case since it’s very fragile.

When the back part is done we glue the fans and graphics cards to it. Notice how the DVI-ports are illustrated by Bassett candy (see above). Below, you can see the rest of the pieces that are needed to build the case, together with the front and back part.

22/12-05 | Henrik Olsson | milohenke@64bits.se

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