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John S
21-06-2009, 12:27 PM
Replying to a guy on another forum about a box to cram all the bits in I thought I'd post this here.

Not renown for bling I tend to cram everything into whatever is handy, old wall box, electrical cabinet, cornflakes box [ the heavy duty ones ] etc.
A while ago when doing my small router I came across on of these mini PC's called Shuttles. Apparently as a PC they are rubbish and breakdown to often and are expensive to fix.

Managed to scrounge two and used one for the router

http://www.stevenson-engineers.co.uk/files/shuttle1.jpg

http://www.stevenson-engineers.co.uk/files/shuttle2.jpg

Rear view showing two surplus cables from a dead Syil mill fitted where the USB and video went.

http://www.stevenson-engineers.co.uk/files/shuttle3.jpg

Inside shot showing one of Roy's boards from DIY-CNC with three of Acr's small stepper drives fitted into the hard drive bay.

http://www.stevenson-engineers.co.uk/files/shuttle4.jpg

Other side shot showing cap and fan, with just the two cables from motors and limits it makes a neat and portable job.

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ptjw7uk
21-06-2009, 12:46 PM
Nice one John thats the best use of a shuttle I have seen. Must have been the worst Pc ever over heated drivers a load of garbage just did its own thing only not very well. I lost count of the number of times I had to try and rescue stuff from overheated hard disks plus no room inside to get at anything.

peter