At MRTN, I attempted to replace the drive spindle with one from a gamecube. It didn't go so well.
I broke my drive.
I now have 2 "broken" but matching drives coming in the mail to be parts donors, and Ashen is being his usual BAMF self and sending me more Gamecube spindles to work with. Hopefully I'll have my drive working soon.
I'm just going to wait around for those to get here, then once I get that built, I'm going to actually do the casework (considering this design is rather dependent on the drive working). While this is happening, I'm going to save up money to buy parts for my custom PSU, and hopefully I'll get to build that rather than using my ghetto-rig I got now.
If I'm lucky, all will go as planned.
It seems that right now, this laptop is just kinda falling into place; and it just needs me to point at where things should go.
Seeing the drive spin up and try to read a game was a HUGE motivator for me.
I broke my drive.
I now have 2 "broken" but matching drives coming in the mail to be parts donors, and Ashen is being his usual BAMF self and sending me more Gamecube spindles to work with. Hopefully I'll have my drive working soon.
I'm just going to wait around for those to get here, then once I get that built, I'm going to actually do the casework (considering this design is rather dependent on the drive working). While this is happening, I'm going to save up money to buy parts for my custom PSU, and hopefully I'll get to build that rather than using my ghetto-rig I got now.
If I'm lucky, all will go as planned.
It seems that right now, this laptop is just kinda falling into place; and it just needs me to point at where things should go.
Seeing the drive spin up and try to read a game was a HUGE motivator for me.