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The Book Box Project
 For starters, I am a moron but The Book Box has a new 500mhz processor. It also has a new PCI ethernet card and a neatly cut access oval to the jack. The integrated ethernet only worked half the time and would occasionally cut out when I was using it. I added a second (6 Gig, woo) hard drive and secured both the drive neatly with copious duct tape and velcro. Another bracket was installed to hold the power supply from sliding towards the motherboard. I will post some more new pics, but overall not a great deal has changed. They were tossing out this PC at work and I couldn't resist picking it up since it had an 8 gig drive and seemed liked a good project. It had a small motherboard and all sorts of integrated goodies so I knew this was as good a time as any to try my hand at a case mod. My first inclination was to stick it in some sort of RC vehicle so we could drive it around AND use it as a computer, but we couldn't find any RC toys quite big enough and I wasn't sure I wanted to shell out that much for something just to destroy it. So I settled on this slick book-styled "travel maps" box.
Naturally the memory that came with it had died so it wouldn't boot, nor would the mouse port work. The installed windows was the first victim of my case mod, quickly replaced by a fresh install of Mandrake 9.1. No KDE, no gnome, not even X11. Command prompt only, baby. Check out the smoking specs:
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