PC360

[roaddogg2k2]

Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present the PC360.
The past few weeks have been devoted to my labor of love below.
Includes a Zotac Atom 330 mini-ITX motherboard, with nVIDIA ION graphics chipset.
2 Gigabytes of DDR 2 Ram,
A 250 GB laptop hard drive,
An XBOX 360 HDDVD drive.

The goal of this project was to create a media center PC, that looks almost exactly like an original XBOX 360, even down to the green LED.
The dvd drive on the xbox itself, doesn't work. I just cut around it, and placed it inside the top half of the xbox shell.

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XBOX motherboard outside of the case

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a shot of the front of the xbox without the cover

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The back of the xbox

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The motherboard with a rough estimation of how big my Zotac motherboard would be.

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A shot of the case with my mock up of a motherboard.

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the Zotac has arrived.

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Look how tiny it is when it is inside the xbox housing.

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Day 1 of the operation. I dremeled out the backside of the housing for my ports.

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The backside had to be dremeled again to allow for the plexiglass motherboard tray.

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A close up of the power adapter, and the wifi antenna port

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the mess is starting to come together. I originally used the CDROM mount to hold my hard drive, but that didn't work out too well.

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Another shot of the setup. I moved the fan placement to the top of the heatsink, due to limited circulation around the tiny holes.

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A shot of my PC360 installing Windows 7, with the lower half of the case on.

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Another shot of the motherboard, this time, with the hard drive and fan in their final positions.

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Top down view of the motherboard, hard drive, and fan in final position, and cables routed. Notice the green LED in the top left, and the top middle power button.
The right side memory card door will trigger the power switch

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Front view of the PC360 powered off

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Used a green LED from radioshack to emulate the green XBOX glow from the front panel.

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the power switch, triggered by the memory card door

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The front part of the dvd drive attached to the top half of the shell.

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Another view

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Top and bottom shell in place with the front bezel off.

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Same picture, but with the power turned on, to show the green LED

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Front bezel on, with the green LED on

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Earlier picture of the whole unit, with a dull LED.

more updates to come

[samjc3]

AWESOME. also 360 hd dvd attachment. those will be rare someday.

[mdh16]

ah i always wanted to do one of thosee GOOD WORK MAN...why dnt people use the 360 av port for input devices thatll bee niccee

[thetwoj1014]

That is very cool. I dig it.