aaSNES1 - acer aspire one inside a snes casemod

Hi everybody,
just want to let you be the first to see what i've been working on.
using the work by TnkGrl and others as reference, i've taken an Acer Aspire One A150 and mixed it into a UK Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
it's almost finished, just a few things to do.
so here's the sneak preview.



you can read my write up on the project as it goes along at
http://www.asobitech.com/remix/aaSNES1/

all comments / suggestions welcome, thank you.

quangDX

 

Hey man, that is so awesome! I might get an used Aspire One and make it into a small computer. They are dirt cheap right know. I'd probably get a used one so it's gonna' be what?, 100 euro?

 

I picked up a reconditioned linux one from ebay with a 120GB hdd for about £160,
which works out to around 185 euros i believe.

I'll be getting another one real soon, to start my next casemod project.

 

Nice one.
Btw, what key board is that?

 

It's the USB keyboard from an Apple Mac.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB110 ... NDE4NTQ3NQ

 

haha this is soooo ridiculous, but in the good way

way props for bringing innovation, that's what its all about

 

if by ridiculous, you mean totally cool and awesome,
i hear you

bit of an update, we ever so close to finishing now, sorted out the audio, usb connectors, dvdrw drive stuff,
should be finished with a day or two of work.
It's just finding those days when we can actually work on it.

 

i kinda hate seeing posts as awesome as these because i wanna mod a case SOOOO BAD but im still waiting for my touchscreen to come in from china and its taking FOOORRRREEVVVEEERR! never order from china directly -thats all bad :|

 

videos now up of the aaSNES1 in action.
http://www.asobitech.com/remix/aasnes1
also i've stuck it on eBay for those of you that want to own it.

 

i get mixed results when ordering from china,
sometimes it turns up in like 3 days,
other times i've waited like a month.

 

Why would you want to sell something like that? It's so awesome and you took your time doing all that and now you're selling it. If I'd do something like that I'd put it in my gadget shelve but unfortunately I don't have one as now I'm spending my money on building a Quad-Core desktop and a new laptop.

 

basically for money,
i want to see if i can get a business going, where i build custom computers for people.
if i wanted to keep it myself, i could always build another one.
but this way, i can be creative and afford to buy food.

 

Yeah but sure £155 is next to nothing. Well the price will go up a little bit but still. Well I guess you already got some food for screen, keyboard, original wifi card and stuffs

 

how hard is it to sell your work on eBay?
i've had to relist the aaSNES1 SNES Pc case mod all over again.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0327579344

does anyone have any suggestions on what I should build/mod next?
i was thinking an Atari 2600 woody, or a Sega Master System.
cheers.

 

...using Aspire One motherboard again?

 

Using the Acer Aspire One A150 motherboard is currently the cheapest option for me to create a PC mod,
but does limit any mod I do to an Atom 1.6Ghz CPU and 1.5GB of RAM.

I guess possibly I could start thinking about using mini-itx boards for newer PC Case mods.
all depends on how much spare cash I have to buy parts with.

 

ya i know i ordered a touchscreen mod from a Chinese retailer whose name i won't mention *Dealextreme.com cough cough!* like 5 months ago. I had a whole plan setup on how I was going to mod my netbook and boom! the package came to me and it was the wrong product, so I RMA'd it and they just now are sending a new one. FIVE MONTHS LATER :|

 

Acer Aspire One inside a (insert retro case of choice) casem

Damn! That's a great concept! .
Now I'm thinking a ZX Spectrum case would look great. .
(although creating a ZX Spectrum keyboard lookalike that works would be a challenge!)
Perhaps the case from an old Commodore 1571 floppy drive would be an idea though! With a modded usb keyboard made to resemble the detachable keyboard from the Commodore 128D ?