THE FOLLOWING EVENTS TOOK PLACE IN A REAL LONG TIME, BETWEEN 01:00 AND 240:000 HOURS, BUT MORE TOWARD 240.




So after Eldritch I swore I would never do another mod again--this coming from trying to get my crazy loop working inside 7 inches of cubic space in a parking garage in Seattle with a pair of chopsticks with 60 hours of sleep for the week and five hours before the BYOC at PAX.

I'm pretty sure there are a few run-on sentences in there...anywho...it wasn't long before the itch crept back on me, and I started sinking into deep planning sessions for my next build. For hours at a time I would slip into my lab, planning, thinking, and mostly playing the SCII beta while generating piece by piece the perfect mod:

SHUT UP, I KNOW ALREADY


Until it hit me--PDX was three weeks away and all I had for plans was part of a napkin with "veritas" scribbled in red ink...or ketchup...but probably red ink:

I can't afford a notebook. Don't judge me.

Since I was this far along, there was absolutely no reason to panic.
Que panic.

I actually own one of these and mash it frequently.

PANIC HAS BEEN QUEUED.

So I got to planning. I spent the first week planning:


NO, not that kind, the REAL kind of planning. I wanted a mini-itx system that wasted no cubic space, looked interesting from all sides, and made people wonder (by looking at the outside) about the orientation. I finally came up with these:







While I could easily spend the next few pages going over the pieces that went into the design, that would be boring, and also I seem to have misplaced the pictures associated with them. Instead I have put together a one-half second time lapse of the process:


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OK done, wasn't that great?

Moving on. I knew that I was not about to build another system on the floor in my room, so I got to work setting up shop. Literally:











Yes, it happened just like that--all in a few blurry pictures. But seriously I was surprised how quick I threw the bench together--and even more surprised it didn't fall apart, then burn down. In that order.

With the workbench out of the way I was free to begin my craft....

...but I will continue my thread tomorrow... Also lemme know if the pictures are too big, and I will re size them.