Got a new controller for the media center this week! 8BitDo is really good quality, reasonably priced, and universal as all hell. Loving it!

I am genuinely blown away by how well this media center is running games. It doesn’t have a dedicated video card, just a Ryzen 5, and yet it’s running most games on high settings, and the ones it can’t still work great on low/medium settings. Better than a console.

I decided to install Bazzite on my media center this weekend, and WOW. It’s so, so good. This media center can really do it all now. (Except play YouTube because Google does not have a native app that I can run on th darned thing 😒)

It’s done! Mounted on the wall and built! so happy this is done!

Printed the caps overnight. Just need the top part and the wall mounted piece and this project will be ready to install!

It’s starting to look like a computer! I designed it kind of like how a Playstation 2 can sit vertical or horizontal. I’ll mostly be using it wall-mounted in the vertical position.

Big step in the right direction here – all of the electronic components have been mounted to the frame. I had to order one extension cable to power the motherboard, but other than that, it went well!

Can’t wait to power this thing up!

Welp I printed the part and several parts didn’t quite line up, and I didn’t use enough infill so it broke. Tweaking the holes and printing again, but this time I’m printing a thin test piece to check alignment.

It is ready to print! The final overall dimensions is about 13″ tall x 5.5″ wide x 11″ deep. If I would have splurged on a mini ATX motherboard I could have made it a lot smaller – probably 8″tall x 5.5″ wide x 8″ deep. But I wanted WiFi 6 and more for less money 😂.