/diy/ - Do It Yourself

mini-itx computer case

>>17510
build a little cardboard viking ship, light it on fire, and set it out to sea with the gamecube on it.

>>17536
Make it into a lunchbox.

>>17536
a secret stash would be really simple but obvious if people know your GC doesnt work

if you had parts, i guess you could mount a small CD player on it. depends mostly on what you can get your hands on.

a jack in the box, cept a mario version of it

Stuff that fucking lizard in there. When it doesn't behave, it can serve as an torture cell.

>>17564
/thread

>>17545
I lol'd

>>17545
This seems feasible and sort of fun... but I kinda want to keep it...

Use at housing for a small computer, like the raspberry pi.

That handle is begging to be used (it's not like we ever used 'em when we actually had Gamecubes, is it?), so something portable. Stick a speaker in the top and some buttons or jacks in the controller port holes, and you could make a nice little portable speaker out of it.

>>17592
it's the gamecube shell you deserve, but not the one you need right now

>Not making a George Foreman grill out of a PlayStation 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1BRyw8h7fY&feature=related

>>17597
speaking of that, how difficult would it be to make one myself?

not OP, btw

>>17575
Oh fucking christ! I am still laughing! I don't have shit to stash, and I can't fit the lizard in there! Plus, I am old enough to go out for a lunch break without a lunchbox. I could save it for my future children...

That case would make a perfect rice cooker.

>>17597
>>17601
I really like these two ideas but I have no fucking clue where to start...

>>17618
Oh shit! Make a crock pot from the gamecube!

>>17597 < me
>>17624
Since a lot of it is done for you, not that hard. I'm probably gonna put mine inside some plastic case with a PS1 screen hooked up to it.

>>17642
That's how just about every cool project starts. You just gotta find out.

I think speaker wiring is pretty simple, and the raspberry pi is just like, one chip isn't it? Just look up some basic electronics stuff, get the materials and equipment necessary, and just start getting creative.

Use it to hide drugs

Make a fishbowl and make a stuffed mario blow bubbles

>>17642
raspberrypi.org
http://www.flashbackgames.co.uk/shop/Item.asp?ProductID=1464
http://www.beboxx.com/coen/super-tiny-keyboard.html?track=feedgCrT
http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?client=opera&rls=en&q=sweex+mini+mouse&oe=utf-8
&channel=suggest&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=8759604858672490065&sa=X&ei=
hvKlTr_SCcql8gOyo6jVBQ&ved=0CFcQ8wIwAw
Might turn out a bit costly, but worth it. maybe put in a web cam too. I'm guessing overall it will still be cheaper than any modern PC.

Rodent cage?

Thanks guys! I'll look into the Viking burial, whatever a raspberry pi is and speaker wiring! Here is a pic of a bad lizard!

>>17693
>mfw wrong bad lizard
>mfw I have no face

Thanks for the link! My computer is broke... too strapped for cash to fix it. Now I post from my Wii and my android smartphone.

Want to be my hero? Turn it into a projector, fully utilizing the top-loading disc area.

>>17680
>>17680
this. hide your weed in there.

>>17618
why waste a good blu ray player?

>>17713
>yfw the right lizard
>yfw you are the bad lizard
Any other ideas?

>>17679
I like this idea. Or find a dome that would fit and make it a tiny terrarium.

>>17510
Make a drink warmer/cooler. thats always handy.

>>17767
>kleenex/tissue box
>get another console and mod it with this shell
>ask kipkay

I would consider it if I could keep animals alive...

>>17797
This. I turned mine into a water heater for my tea.

Its too small for even one beer. I was thinking that though! I like the tissue box idea... pretty simple.

>>17767
>mfw I am the bad lizard

Dude you could make a fucking LEGENDARY fingerbox with this.

So my top picks are a jack in the box, Viking sea burial, portable sound and music device, Raspberry computer thing... a box for tissues and a lizard prison... anything else?

>>17805
>get another console and mod it with this shell
I like this. Get a Linux distro with good emulator or MAME support and autoboot to that.

>>17832
And this fucking brilliant idea here! I used to make cardboard ones for my friends kids! They loved their simplicity and shit.

... I am shit with electronics, but it sounds interesting... but pricey...

looks like it can hold a bunsen burner... space heater or travel smores kit.

>>17909
Woah... smores... I like that idea! I could try it out!

I dunno about you, but if it were me I would get one of those USB plugs that add more USB ports to your computer and make the controller plug slots into USB ports. Plug Gamecube into computer, add 5 USB ports, have four sticking out of controller slots, one inside and use the rest of the container for holding my external harddrive which is connected by the USB port on the inside.
But, you know, that's just me.

Just a shot in the dark, but are there any Steampunks here that could suggest something? I like that stuff but i need money for certain tools and stuff...

>>17926
I like the idea, really would try it, but i've no computer now. Maybe though... its pretty interesting!

>>17926
This is...actually a great idea. Not OP, but if I get the time I would love to do this with my gc. extra usb ports + external hd holder, I like it. Are the controller plug holes big enough for a usb plug though?

>>17970
You could always cut the plastic around it.

I just hollowed mine out and made it into a lunch back.
Thing is I did this shit back in eight grade and I'm a Senior now.

>>17955
>No computer
How are you speaking with us? Are you a wizard?

>>17970
I'm looking at mine, and it barely fits, but if you have the USB port sticking out of the slot a bit you shouldn't have a problem. You'll need either strong glue or something supporting it in the back so that the USB port doesn't just fall back into the Gamecube when plugging something in.

>>18026
Yeah, and im an adult... i like the smores kit idea though. I go camping.

>>18026
>lunch box

aw shit i'm going to get my old gamecube right now

>>18036
I cast tubeular linkosis! Naw, I have a Wii. My android is charging.

Also... I did use it as a lunchbox for a samich and juice box... it was fun...

>>17933
Steampunk is played-out as fuck.

I don't know, maybe because i hardly see it, I don't agree, but in the media, yeah. In its art and creations, hell no. I love them goggles, and lamps, fucking airships! I like it...

Also, I foung a free movie ticket in the gamecube!

>>17684
>>17650
>>17597
I still think the raspberry pi is the coolest idea, since you can hook it up to your TV and emulate pretty much any game up to the ps1

>>18290
I really want to do it, but i those links aren't clickable and I can't copypasta on my Wii. Would you do me a huge favor and copy those links and send them to my email address?

Or anyone? caq983@yahoo.com

>>18328
Yea alrite, its the guy who siad it first by the way :3

>>18047
Well damn, do the smores kit idea. That's more core than a fucking lunch box.

>>18328
Alrite, done

Make it into a pot for a cactus garden.

>>18340
I'll think up a way to do this. and not melt it in the process!
>>18357
Thank you so much! I'll try some research!

Why did you gut it in the first place? Just asking because I simply readjusted the potentiometer when mine started to have constant read errors, and still use it.

Get into mushroom growing (The legal kind) and grow mario look alike mushrooms in it.
Or just use it as a plant bot for a (Nintendo themed) bonsai or a cactus.

OR Throw it in your garden and plant a vine in it that would one day cover your house!

A portable speaker. Imagine walking around with a good quality speaker pumping out of that Gamecube. Hold that shit on your shoulder and turn it up when the cops come around.

>>18502
Yea, Nigguh.

>>18502
I like that scene in my think box... hehe. Fuck the police! pick with a guy holding a gamecube on his shoulders!

Also, I gutted it when some dick at work borrowed it, "dropped" it into a lake and then he tried to blowdry it... but he did give me 85$ because he felt sorry! That was a about a year ago...

>>18538
Gosh, now I wish I had my old Gamecube so I could gut it and make a speaker out of it. I really like that idea... Haha.

use it to house a NAS, cram a tiny computer in there and use it to stream audio/video from your other machines to your tv, or just put it on the shelf and hang onto it... or look into gutting it and making a handheld from it.

How'd you gut it, OP?

I'm so much of a newfag it hurts.

I had to make a special screwdriver for the main four ones. I melted a pen, let it cool over the screw head and it took two days. Then I just unscrewed the rest. pretty simple. Hard, alot of stripped screws, having to use a knife and wrench the entire time! I fucking hated it and kept giving up! But finally, an empty shell!

>>19837
Bought a real one.

>>19837
You've made me want to gut mine now.
Is there an IRC for /diy/?

>New alarm clock.

I would make it into a finger box. Make sure to line it with felt so it's a good, form fitting finger box. Make sure to use satin for the inner bits...

>>18453

I have a useless gamecube and am going to go through with the plant idea.

You are a scholar and a gentleman.

>>21696
>>/b/

Your cube is blue. You should fix that and convert to the jet black master race by any means necessary.

nig

and the tripfags have already invaded, i'm out