So I teased you a week back with a random ass poast in the random thread, well here is a pictoral of my exploits...
A friend of mine who happens to be a musican (drummer foremost, amongst other instruments) needed an upgraded computer. I had parts. We planned an afternoon to rebuild his comp. Once we got going, we realized the case we had would not work (proprietary dell shiat) so we had to improvise, or spend $35 on a new case. Being skinflints, we decided that we could use our expertise and handyness, as well as our creativity to build a case. I looked around the room, spotted a stack of drums an said "Hey, you got any extra drums?" the rest is history.
Please note, the entirety of our planning is documented in the first picture:
planning
parts an props
mockup
testing, installing OS
finished product (back)
finished product (front)
-pps. this entire project, from conception to reality took 8 hours. FTW.