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 😂.

I scrapped my entire media center build design and started over. After doing some research, I got some ideas for a much better design approach that makes it easier to assemble, maintain, modify, and print.

My home media center is ready to print! Going to take several days to get it printed and together, and I’ll probably have to re-print something but it’s time to start makin’ parts!

A handy little not-so-commonly known trick for getting a centerline between holes using calipers.

The plan is to tuck the mount it behind the TV on the wall. Brackets will hold it on the wall but make it fairly easy to remove if I ever need too.

Although it’s going to be running Ubuntu, so I can connect to it with another computer pretty easily.