Wood & Leather PC Case

[@itsamotherflutter]

What a great idea! Imagine taking an old TV and building a PC inside it. There were some pretty cool wood cases back in the day.

[@greased-toenail]

yeah but the monitor would look wrong in side the crt area, huge bezels

[@paxvictori2385]

This computer would go really well with one of those steampunk keyboards that look like old typewriters

[@MegaMaximus333]

From cyberpunk to steampunk.

[@naimneman4216]

I was going to comment that! 🧐

[@Hackenberg]

More like Dieselpunk.

[@Hackenberg]

Appalled and amazed at the same time.

[@grahamrigby7807]

Your channel is awesome! I love the variety of projects you create and hope that you continue well into the future. Your imagination and authenticity makes your content a joy to watch and I am consistently impressed with your ingenuity and design of your creations.

[@CarterHurd]

Thank you so much!

[@glumOr]

I wouldn't call myself a fan of steampunk, but I will say it's the healthiest way to prepare punk.

[@rRhyan]

I think you have come a long way in art and design here. I can't quite judge your engineering because you are the professional, but compared to a lot of your past designs, visual wise, this one has turned out the best so far. Elegant and beautiful.

[@rRhyan]

The most impressive aspects are the parts you added onto the original radio. You mixed and blended the style very well here, keeping both the classic look while adding a retro-futuristic touch to it

[@CarterHurd]

@@rRhyan Thank you! When the dual-screen PC video went viral I had to recognize "wow... video performance is super tied to how cool the thumbnail looks, I better up my aesthetic game" ... So I really tried to go all-out here. And I'm really happy with how it looks in my living room setup, fits in well and looks nice with my speakers and plants. As for the engineering: It's crap. Lol. Even worse airflow than the laptop was..... but it's just good enough to not throttle during gaming so I'll take it.

[@WTCHME]

​@@CarterHurd Sometimes you win with the algorithm, sometimes you don't. I think because it looks so impractical/practical (yes both) it's easy to get people to click on to watch it. The title as well, "I used this as my PC for a month" is what a lot of popular channels are doing as well which seems to generate interest. I've enjoyed watching all your hacky projects not just that one though, so I think if people genuinely like the content they should hang around. Cool stuff you're doing, definitely inspiring me to buy a 3d printer and be more creative instead of just being a mindless consoomer.

[@fortris]

Huge fan of these videos, can’t wait to see the next project

[@hdc5688]

I've been searching high and low for inspiration for a build and set ups that don't look like an arcade (they're great, but there's a time and a place and it isn't any time I have my eyes open in my apartment). Loved the look of this. I'd love to check out that hoarding situation you stumbled upon.. sounds like a gold mine. Enjoying your vids, thanks!

[@XtruhSpecialK]

personally liked the aesthetics of the cyberdeck more, but this is pretty dope!

[@gregoryknight2928]

Fascinating project. Really enjoy how imaginative and creative your projects are.

[@robertwestfall_M.A.R.S.O.]

😢I'll miss that Cyberdeck build you created, Carter, but good job on creating something new again...!

[@ExercisingIngenuity]

Absolutely love the aesthetic you were able to achieve, and the artistry of taking something so old and repurposing it!

[@MiningChamber]

This is a piece of art my dude 🤘🏼👏🏼

[@thumbtak123]

It needs a vintage cased web camera, to balance out the top of the computer, next to the microphone, if you attach both to the top.

[@ptkt5052]

Wow! You are super talented!

[@Akidsperspective1]

That leather is such a great touch 👌

[@shukrantpatil]

Keep on going bro, I’ll say your channels gonna blow up within the next 6-10 videos . Great work .

Death of a Deck, long live the Deck!

[@maksimdiagilev4651]

wow! I don't understand how this channel don't have 1mill subs

[@firstutlastot716]

Incredible art build, good job

[@jonny727272]

This looks awesome! Been subbed for a while and actually saw your build on r/sffpc this morning before I even saw your video!

[@airzone9639]

being a collector of valve/tube radio's watching that radio be demolished hurt me in multiple ways. Although the plasma globe was a pretty cool addition to the pc.

[@Jason-lt5jd]

Nice work! Very interesting.. Came here from gameranx

[@notgavincrenshaw]

I love these obscure pc build projects. Just a tip, put an outro screen at the end of the video so the cards don't cover most of the screen at the end.

[@CarterHurd]

Ok. I can also move them around and shorted the length that the cards are up, might do that

[@clockworkNate]

This looks really great but I would've absolutely loved if you incorporated the actual vacuum tubes instead. I just love that old fallout vibe they give off.

[@Good_BorisAV]

_Thanks! Very interesting!_

[@richfiles]

In 2014 I cut down the overall height of a floor standing 1939 Philco radio cabinet, and built a PC case out if it that would take a full ATX motherboard, as well as eight 3.5 inch hard drives. The motherboard is on a hinged door, similar to the old Blue and White Powermac G3 Apple made in the late 90s, early 2000s Last year, I began building a SFF PC case from the leftover parts from that old radio cabinet that I had cut out to reduce the original's size. I plan to design a front and rear grill pattern, and have it cut out of brass plate with a water jet, to serve as the front and rear grill. The SFF case also just barely fits a full ATX motherboard. The bottom I/O panel was taken from a 2u server chassis, and has a standard I/O shield cutout with seven _low profile_ PCIe slots. From the front, the case has kinda the shape of an UNO reverse symbol 🔃 with the I/O coming out the bottom, and the GPU air intake on top (a repurposed rectangular brass floor drain grill). The three slot GPU bracket and SFX PSU are mounted to the rear grill. The whole unit hinges open, with the motherboard on the swing down drawer, so when Open, the bottom I/O faces sideways, for easier access. Both cases were made from the same radio cabinet, and the original cabinet was completely gutted when I got it, including having no radio face. I found a set of brass postbox doors at an antiques shop. They had a mild art deco design that I liked, and the two larger ones perfectly covered the hole in the front of the radio cabinet. I mounted a nixie clock behind the glass windows that would normally hold a Postbox or room number. On the new SFF case build, I plan to have the case door release and a smaller nixie clock behind it. The 2014 case looks like a shorter version of the original 1939 Philco radio. There is a false back behind the speaker grill bars, which serves as dual air intakes. Each intake is a 2x2 grid of 120mm fans, for a total of 8 intake fans, blowing through a pair of 10x10 inch air filters. A pair of internal circulation fans makes sure air blows up into the top of the case, where the hard drives are, and the intakes feed directly into the PCIe slot area, and feed up to the CPU, which is cooled by a Noctua NH-14D. There are a pair of 120mm and one 140mm exhaust fans at the upper back of the case, near the CPU, to exhaust hot air. These fans are unrestricted, unlike the 8 intakes, which are pushing against filters. The 2021 case is made from leftover wood, and wont look so much like a radio, as much as just a period piece... The deign for the legs actually is stolen from a lamp. The half that is fixed will stand on buttressed legs mounted to the side. It will be supported at the front by a pair of buttressed legs forming an "A" shaped leg with the smaller brass postbox door in the "hole" of the "A". For stability, the rear grill will likely have a single small leg to support it's corner. The CPU of the small case is cooled by a Noctua NH-D15 mounted in a 90° orientation (blowing toward the PCIe slots). Since the case can only handle half height cards, this airflow direction will pull air in directly from the front grill, and pass It directly toward the SFX PSU and over the slots. The GPU is connected by a riser cable to it's bracket. Both CPU and GPU are able to pull in fresh cool air (from the front grill and top grill, respectively), and blow everything out the rear grill.

[@Zdzisiek]

I think this could be way better without cutting original box. On the left side where Motorola logo was with that cloth(speaker), you could just put new cloth that act as dustfilter with modern pc fan for intake (it will not be visible), and on the right side have fancy exhaust. This would create at least "some" air movement and could even work with more powerful parts.

[@Mike_Wazowski_z]

that motorola logo is sick looking

[@Marc42]

Awesome build! :)

[@CarterHurd]

thanks! best one yet imo

[@cptechguy]

Gameranx featured your build in their November 2022 review video. Very aesthetically appealing case mod. Nice job, and great attention to detail.

[@thespectralsanctum]

Love the build. I have been thinking about something similar, but using a Larkbox Pro mini.

[@kaojaicam]

Fantastic work :)

[@azultoledano1983]

With a smaller board that would be a sick home server

[@nuff8846]

This is sick! If that guy has more, I'd love to try and do something similar except a more micro ATX system instead of a laptop. If you can grab one, I'll buy it off ya lol

[@heetshah3663]

REALLY COOL VIDS HOPE YOU BLOW UP

[@lostfound8112]

Nice work

[@PelleKuipers]

Would it be possible to print some metal trimming for the window on the left? I think that would be the icing on the cake.

[@dgervais7527]

I'm wondering if you can make a gaming PC out of those type writer keyboard. Kinda like your cyberpunk dual display one but better and badasser

[@tech-bore8839]

Out of curiosity, are you still able to get into the BIOS without the laptop's original display? I'm doing a similar project with the exact same laptop and I'm concerned about losing access to the BIOS if I remove the display altogether.

[@CarterHurd]

This is a great question, and unfortunately I no longer have this project around to test it for you

[@tech-bore8839]

@@CarterHurd No problem. Thanks for the response.

[@parasrawat9346]

can i make one too ? if you have added old speakers layout it would look great

[@CarterHurd]

Go for it!

[@zoktikg7997]

Love it bro

[@adewilliam9047]

nice work man

[@CarterHurd]

Thanks!

[@manolooore]

Your content is so cooll What kind of stuff did you have to learn so you could build your projects? I'm in my first year in college learning IT, but this kind of projects always interested me.

[@CarterHurd]

I just start without a plan and Google things as I go along whenever I don’t know something

[@Tamay.]

Aww I thought the screen is inside the PC!

[@danielauen7790]

Motorola 47B11, Build in the late 40s, Broadcast wave AM only receiver, ment to run on batteries not ac, a 90v B+ battery and a 1.5v filament battery, filament current is .25 amps and B+ 12ma, and a 3 ohm speaker. Weird little radio. Does the ebay listing include the speaker?

[@CarterHurd]

Nope, not the speaker, just the stuff I have photos of in the listing

[@CarterHurd]

but thanks for all this info, no one else has been able to identify it

[@danielauen7790]

@@CarterHurd it was difficult to make out the sticker hiding behind the plasma globe at 3:02 because theres no clear shot of it.. I actually ended up finding the schematic as well lol.

[@danielauen7790]

In other words, if I win that auction, I have every intention to try and bring it back to life..

[@CarterHurd]

@@danielauen7790 got it. Yeah sorry, I don't have the speaker any more. But if you revive it totally email a photo to me! that'd be cool.

[@visibll]

This is giving me BioShock vibes

[@dylangentile8355]

I would pay for something like this

[@CarterHurd]

Feel free to email me an offer

[@lasqueur]

There are a lot of space inside, normal pc would fit. I would put stereo speakers inside

[@CarterHurd]

An ITX build could fit, yeah. It's a 14L build, smaller than an ITX case like the Cooler Master NR200P is 18L but larger than some of the ultra-tiny SFF builds like the DanCase.

[@ActuallyDad]

Love the old radios. Are you going to do a leather project soon?

[@CarterHurd]

No specific leather project, I'll just work it into my existing stuff when I can.

[@leamog]

God gave you 10 fingers for redundancy. Mankind figured out how to put back them on. Follow your dreams. This is 202me.

[@kvfake]

Rly Cool

[@intel386DX]

Nice!

[@shukrantpatil]

Also a Instagram account might help as it will keep the audience connected with the projects.

[@miker4all]

like your stuff. do you take commissions?

[@CarterHurd]

Probably not but feel free to email me

[@nickstein3129]

I came from Gameranx, I stayed because it was interesting .

[@oasntet]

That variable capacitor, tho.

[@rickdess1558]

Can’t wait

[@rppoker8541]

Look like from the 1800’s

[@ansyarh5747]

Why not buy new/secondhand board broo?? I like old u Cyber laptop 😅

[@CNormanHocker]

"Reverse the polarity!" Who are you? Doctor Who.

[@dirtiestharry6551]

2 hours left!

[@deuswulf6193]

Not bad, but the fan placement and presentation is janky. The Plasma light looks out of place, should have went with an LED Edison bulb.

[@CarterHurd]

thanks for the feedback

[@bakermrad]

Okay let's go

[@nobodynoone2500]

It's kinda terrible and i love it. ps. lemme get those old tubes off ya. I'll trade ya another plasma ball for em.

[@CarterHurd]

Check the ebay listing in description

[@TheOneCleanHippy]

Who else is here because of the Gameranx shoutout?

[@earthone4939]

top g

[@paokkerkir]

"Three more things to do" *SHOWING 4 FINGERS

[@CarterHurd]

numbers are hard

[@eskanderx1027]

Noice!

[@darkbooz5623]

at this moment watching him is hurting me cuz i have a very low end laptop and him doingthis to a high end laptop is just dam (no hate)

@Carter Hurd you've got an impersonator

[@CarterHurd]

Ya?

[@JD-wy3dh]

@@CarterHurd yeah was one of those spam bots saying "you've won some bs" hey on another note we are having another virtcon at the cybderdeck cafe and would love it if you joined us again. dm me over at the cafe discord.

[@hiimzackjones]

NOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU ABSOLUTE FIEND. IS THIS WHY YOU DIDN'T RESPOND TO MY OFFER?!?! I AM DISTRAUGHT. IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL.

[@hiimzackjones]

I finished this video and that's kind of cool but I'll still never forgive you.

[@CarterHurd]

I’m re-making the deck don’t worry

[@lightcity8933]

Kinda slay

[@CarterHurd]

Not fully, just kinda slay? dang.

[@Tamay.]

Old wood looked better tbh

[@CarterHurd]

Might have looked better, but it felt really gross and flaky

[@Zedrin666]

Молодец. Все сломал.

[@littletimmythefifth29]

Here at 13,203 views.

[@SsDiBoi]

Haha u noticed

[@andrewwilliams5337]

88 minutes

[@pathfinderpolska]

It is ugly. The vintage radio was better.

[@CarterHurd]

The vintage radio was worth $25 at an estate sale and didn’t get any use, while this is something I’ve been using every single day.

[@TheStonedSpidR]

IDK what you think steampunk is, but this isnt it