Inside a PC display

[kmorrisuk]

Hi everyone

Hope this is the correct forum to post in!

Im currently working (not yet complete) on a display to show the inside of a pc

LINK

and was wondering if anyone else had done anything similar, im looking for my next project and not sure what would be best to attempt!

[synaesthesia]

I've helped with one very similar in the past but didn't go quite as far as I would have liked.
We did a near identical display but with a second board for the kids to play with below - with part names and a switch so they can press it and a bulb lights next to the component.
What I was planning to do was wire some power to some parts too - mostly the hard drive, optical drive, floppy drive and fans so when the button was pressed they would spin/spin up for a few seconds.
Was a great idea, it was a primary school and some of the kids in KS1 could fully identify every internal part of a computer. Wish I got to doing the last bit though!

[MK-2]

i love how beside all of it you have a hammer too

[Rawns]

i love how beside all of it you have a hammer too

BAM! BAM! BAM!

[Ric_]

I hope that will be a fully functional system when you've finished

[CESIL]

I am going to build one soon showing the internals of a hard drive...

[box_l]

We used to have one at college where the HDD cover had been replaced with perspex. the whole pc was a working setup.

[mac_shinobi]

We used to have one at college where the HDD cover had been replaced with perspex. the whole pc was a working setup.

I've got an SSD thats covered in blue plastic although can't see much of anything lol

[Dos_Box]

Is that a wood veneered hard drive? That is very old school

[Rawns]

I'd get rid of the 3.5" Floppy too.

[mats]

Neat - I'd have left the cover on the power supply though!

[kmorrisuk]

Hammer was needed. Staple gun didnt quite go in far enough!
It powers up and works and you can connect a working monitor/mouse/keyboard/usb drive etc
The PC im thinking was about 6-7 years old, 20GB hard drive!!!!!
Opened the power supply so the kids could see what was inside! Plastic outer casing has been made today ready to go over the display once i have added the label/text

Thanks for all the replys

[Gatt]

I hope that will be a fully functional system when you've finished

Not with the current location of the RAM and CPU it won't! Not to mention the absence of a certain Output device....

I'd get rid of the 3.5" Floppy too.

The blue diamond shaped pills that are behind the micropore in the first aid box should sort that out

Neat - I'd have left the cover on the power supply though!

Should add some extra "fizz" to the display

[kmorrisuk]

I have a cpu and ram to connect up to it they will not be on the board but part of the box below so the students can connect everything. Same goes for replacement cables for the ones that have been cut!.

Its a learning board, things had to be broken down to show the internal workings!