WINDOW MODDED NETWORK SWITCH!!!

Yea well i got bored haha. I decided to do something a little bit weird and window mod my network switch. This article is more of just a "what i did", not a "this is how you do it"

Its just to give ppl ideas. Ok Lets start.

This is it, my Xnet 5 port 10/100 network switch.

Yea they are big images, but... well it takes too long to make them small. Stop complaining.
This thing is powered of a plugpack which you dont see here cos i left the thing at home.

Ok this is what it looks like inside.

There is the casing, and the circuit.

What do to.. what to do........

I know!! AN AMD LOGO!!!!!!! BACKLIT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok lets make a AMD logo in cardboard and use a pin and a marker to transfer it to the top of the case.
Excuse the lines, they arent straight but thats ok, my cutting method will take care of that.

now, CUTTING TIME!!!!!! thanks to my mini tool with a carbide cutting wheel that did nothing other then really melt lines in. but they were straight. and did the job. See the bits of plastic?

You can see the middle square, all nice and neat kinda. Yea it wasnt really, but a file fixed that up.

NEED A WINDOW!!! thanks to a blank CD case.

BEWDIFUL!!!!!

Super glue to the rescue. Get on there you little bugger.

The window completed!!

mmm what next. Well, i had the switch open and running one night, and i noticed that the core logic chip ran a bit toasty. to fix that.... HEATSINK!!!!

There it is, all nice and filed and painted black. See the ISO PROPYL? thats alcohol.

No you cant drink it.

Here is another shot of that neato heatsink.

Ahhh nice and BLACK.

GLUE time again, glue that little bugger onto the logic chip. I used super glue. Its plastic. The core chip is plastic. It works.

So nice!!!

What next. aaaaaah yea, make sure it all fits!!

Look at that. HOW NICE IS THAT.

Missing something. oh yea. BACKLIGHT!!!

What to do? well blue has been done to death. And the AMD logo is green. And i have never SEEN green backlight. So what better to backlight then to use green leds shining down on to the circuit board!! NEATO!!!

There you are!!! 4 green leds all soldered up to one pair of wires. They are glued around the window and bent down to show on the circuit board. I had to make sure there were no shorts here, there is a lot of components sticking up of the board. But it all went well. I powered the leds through a single resistor of 220 ohms. It runs of the 7.5vdc supply it gets from the plugpack.

Here is another shot of that.

kinda neat. *shrugs* it doesnt short out anywheres so its cool.

The final result in daylight is THIS!

well?

So what does this result in??????!!!!!!

THIS!!!

SORRY! the pics are BAAAAAAD. Here is another one.

THERE YOU GO!!!

Trust me, it looks a tonne better then those pics. And at night... its gonna be WONDERFUL!!!

Time to do this? 3 hours. Cutting, soldering, filing, glueing, testing.... and all it cost me was a resistor and 4 leds ;).