SWDescent
New member
I've been a long time follower of Tom's videos and joined the forums earlier this year but I worked so much I never really had any time to any in depth responses or technical help to anyone, I haven't even been working in the computer industry for the last 3 years so I'm probably a little rusty on a few things, but I love any thing mechanical or electrical. I've always been fascinated with computer ever since my parent's first got a 486SX at a whopping 25mhz, and I even started taking things apart before I could talk (too bad I was too young to put them back together, parent's hated having to replace phones and whatnot).
Anyways I've always enjoyed making things my own way and basically as soon as the warranty is up on my products (or earlier if it bothers me enough) I start taking them apart and modifying them.
I started with just painting my SNES Black and taking apart an older Pentium 266 Laptop and Painting that Green:
Sorry no pic of the snes, it's been moved from Michigan to Airizona to Michigan and has actually chunks out of the corner of is so not worth taking a picture now (Still works great though)
I moved on to bigger and better things starting with my Halo Edition Xbox, taking it apart, trimming down the metal insides and adding lights to it so you can actually see inside of it:
I then took my Dreamcast Apart and Painted it black and swapped the LED from amber to Blue as well as a higher powered 40mm Blue LED PC fan instead of the stock one and even put a Blue LED to light up the VMU Screen in the dark
Next was my Playstation 2, I decided to take it apart, improve the cooling with PC heatsinks, Paint the entire thing blue, and even added a bear claw scratch window and mounted some Blue LEDs as well as windowed it:
Next was taking apart an older Full Tower case, painting the interior a nice glossy black and doing a Marble Green Paint Job to it (even mounted an LED behind an alien head keychain hooked up to a potentiometer to adjust it's brightness):
Before
After
Sorry for all the photos, but I do enjoy working on computers and look forward to helping people the best I can now that I'm a soon to be stay at home dad
Anyways I've always enjoyed making things my own way and basically as soon as the warranty is up on my products (or earlier if it bothers me enough) I start taking them apart and modifying them.
I started with just painting my SNES Black and taking apart an older Pentium 266 Laptop and Painting that Green:
Sorry no pic of the snes, it's been moved from Michigan to Airizona to Michigan and has actually chunks out of the corner of is so not worth taking a picture now (Still works great though)
I moved on to bigger and better things starting with my Halo Edition Xbox, taking it apart, trimming down the metal insides and adding lights to it so you can actually see inside of it:
I then took my Dreamcast Apart and Painted it black and swapped the LED from amber to Blue as well as a higher powered 40mm Blue LED PC fan instead of the stock one and even put a Blue LED to light up the VMU Screen in the dark
Next was my Playstation 2, I decided to take it apart, improve the cooling with PC heatsinks, Paint the entire thing blue, and even added a bear claw scratch window and mounted some Blue LEDs as well as windowed it:
Next was taking apart an older Full Tower case, painting the interior a nice glossy black and doing a Marble Green Paint Job to it (even mounted an LED behind an alien head keychain hooked up to a potentiometer to adjust it's brightness):
Before
After
Sorry for all the photos, but I do enjoy working on computers and look forward to helping people the best I can now that I'm a soon to be stay at home dad
