Wtf Did I Do?
 

I put my Xbox in an NES case. The only thing that didn't really fit is the CD/DVD drive. But the motherboard, 80gb hardrive, fan, and powersupply all occupy the case. I even put in some lights.. Not quite done either, pretty close though.

Why? I was tinkering around with LED's, sticking the lights in random techno stuff. I soon learned how to solder and thought the activity was quite fun. This just gave me the idea, the need to do something big. I just wanted to do a bigger project. Had to be cheap too. I bought two broken NES systems for about $15 all together, and that's really all I bought.

On with the pictures.


If you can see here, I don't have the power buttons glued in or anything. I want to see if I can make them functional before totally giving up. Some resistors are in the way of the power buttons, but I bet I can use them somehow..


Another angle.. You can see I had to cut seperate holes for the two controller ports as there was no room below. They work well up a little higher.


Another angle.. You can see better the placement of the plugs.


The last "Another angle.." shot. You can see the motherboard sticking out a little bit. Very little, had to fit it in this way.


Power supply hangs near the door. I've had a couple people already try to touch this thing while the system was running and they were shocked.. I might just glue the door down if people keep touching that thing.


Stuff is connected inside. As much as I would have loved to disconnect everything for the sake of some pictures, I just decided to pry the case open a little bit.


Another angle.. You can see in these two past pictures where everything is placed. The hardrive and powersupply as fastened to the top of the system. Both are removable whenever need be.


I don't know how much you can make out in this picture. You can see one of the heatsinks. The other heatsink has the fan mounted on top of it. Oddly enough, that one fan is enough to keep the system cool enough to run hours on end.


You may not know this, but there are a couple video and audio ports on the side of the NES system. That's where the power button is currently. Works really nice in that area. You can see the glow. The system glows red and the power button blinks green as the system turns on.


When the system is done booting up, the power button switches to red. Why red? Cheapest LED's at Radio Shack. Better than $5/each for blue LED's. I know I can order a million LED's for 5 cents online, but I didn't.


Action shot.

So you can't play xbox games...?

Easy enough to put xbox games on the hardrive. Much easier to play games when they're on the hardrive too, so I didn't mind chucking the cd/dvd drive. I also don't own too many xbox games. I maybe own 3 xbox games, tops.

Ok then it's really cool what you did XD

Oh, that's pretty sweet. Looks nice, and I guess it suits your purposes just fine, too. I'd really fix that whole getting shocked thing, though. :P

What'll the Nintendo fanboys say? :P

You say suit my purposes, but trust me, it hits the g-spot on all purposes. Unless you want to play on xbox live or play a dvd game, rofl.

Two enemies come together in unique harmony.

VERY sweet.

Something like:
Anyway, very frickin sweet dude. I have to commend you on awesomeness.
Someday I'm going to acquire the skills to do this.


P.S. School server blocked the link in your sig, Omeganitros. What does it go to, may I ask?

I'd've loaned you one of my three NESs for that.

Nice work. Makes me want to do something of my own. I tore apart an NES before to get it repaired as per some instructions I found online on how to make it so games actually work these days and had at it. Really fun.

I honestly think I'm just going to assemble my own computer when I get a new one.

~Squeek

That is hot as hell. Now I want one... except with the cd/dvd drive.

Ah, nothing important. Just this little web game I like to play. You know, one of those ones where you let your friend click it and it gives you bonus points?

I didn't say that. ;(

You attention whoring or am I like really asdfdgd right now?

WTFSADGHAKJDFHLKAH

I am horrible at quotes.

Oh, one of those. I thought it might be the log out page.

Sell it on ebay?
You can thank me later.

No, seriously, I wonder if people would bid high for that.

People would pay through their ass. I would.

Not like nobody else has said this already, but that is really awesome. It must be great to surprise people with it.

If you do, can I come? :O

I'd kind of like to do something like this too, but not so ambitious (unless I'm not alone). >.> Best I've done is make a tilt-activated voice box for a goat plushie (if Squeek ever mentioned that :D ), but that wasn't so risky cost-wise.

I've found that this kind of thing can give you some weird problems, though. It's kind of hard to troubleshoot electronics when nothing appears to be wrong, since you can't see the flow of electricity. I had some bizarre problems with that while making the goat... I still have no idea why it acted the way it did.

PS - Solder is so much fun.

Soldering is a damn pain. Or rather, soldering is a damn pain when you have to use broken, rusted, POS soldering irons that they give you in Integrated Technology.

Anyway, not as though this hasn't been said enough, but: That is beyond awesome.

Kenzya is awesome. Way to go man.

Hit the Quote button and edit out the parts that do not matter. If you're in Firefox intending to finish reading the remainder of the thread before replying and want to collect quotes to reply to as I am in this post, middle-click the Quote button, reply to each Quote, then compile them all together.

I kinda did something similar on the Monday of Thansgiving Week. Replaced a friend's Motherboard and Power Supply (he managed to blow out both of them), which meant re-placing the heatsink, processor, etc. It was a fun experience until he bent one pin on the processor. If that pin broke, -$300.

The only thing we have to say about the whole matter is this: Thermal Grease.

~Squeek