What do you do when you're bored, have $20 and see a microwave at goodwill?
You blow stuff up.
GIF of foil sparking - GIF of "ball lightning" (plasma balls)
For whatever reason, it died
Cheap manufacturing?
So I gutted it
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I had recently bought a bunch of computer parts to build a new system for myself.
I was short a case thus far.
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I have a dead microwave I need to do something with
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hmm
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My motherboard fits, why not? Cut some holes for fans, ports, etc...
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Mount hardware
The empty space behind the PSU now contains 2 IDE drives sitting upright.
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Close 'er up...
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And we have:
The buttons on the front panel will power up the machine [START] and reset it [CLEAR]
AMD 64 3200+, 2GB (2x512 + 1x1), 2x200GB SATA Mirrored, 1x250GB IDE, 1x350GB SATA, 2xPCMCIA, ATI 9800 AIW, TechniSat DVB-PC TV, WiFi-G, DL DVD+-RW, Altec Lansing 5.1 Speaker Setup, XP MCE