I Built a Mini Retro PC From An Old Firewall!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ธ.ค. 2021
- Part two of the retro gaming firewall saga! In this video I show you how I designed and built a case for the rescued firewall motherboard.
Here's the first part of this project: • Fixing And Turning a B...
And here you can find the CAD files for the case design: www.thingiverse.com/thing:515...
Music used in this video:
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With this talent, we can preserve retro hardware with new purpose. Every other build is a raspberry pi inside a case.
That's what I did :).
Except mine is about 4" tall with a matching monitor. And of course it runs doom. Lol. Still fun.
@@tiporari for shameeeee.
Kidding. I have a pi4 also. Except it's got a custom case made out of cardboard cause I'm poor
Very impressive. A tower style case is 100% the correct choice!
the correct choice would be a Boba-fett helmet replica, but the tower is better than I could do, so I can't really criticize.
Alittle wet sanding and automotive primer would help those parts look 100% smooth. Regardless you did an amazing job, much respect!
That case is so cool. I want a mini ITX PC that looks like that.
This has a similar vibe to the NES Classic and other "classic" console recreations, but for a classic PC! :)
Nice work!
i really like how talk about "installing" components and take out the glue.
Awesome build! I'm surprised the hard drive LED actually worked
Great build! It's so satisfying to see that the beeper and hard drive activity indicator LED worked.
Wow, great work! This turned out to be a very nice retro PC. Out of an old firewall ... never thought I'd see something like this. Amazing! Subscribed right away!
I think it's awesome. I enjoyed the vintage beige case design. Great job.
Man, I gotta really get into 3D modeling and printing. The stuff you can make with it is WILD
Very nice build! I like how you took care with the cable management. That is something I never did in my old PC builds but always regretted.
Very nice use of old hardware and you've pretty convincingly turned it into a mini PC!
What a great project. I love the way it came out. The case is very creative.
Love this project! Currently I’m using an old HP thin client as my retro DOS PC - but this looks even better 😎
Good job, that must have burned through a lot of filament!
I love how the speakers are bigger than the machine itsself :P great work, and nice repurposing of something that would easily have been discarded
Fun project, really glad to see this follow up to the original video you did. Subscribed.
I live that you added all of the missing headers and buzzers to the motherboard. Great job on this whole project! You could try having someone laser cut sheet metal for three case to make it stronger in the future.
Nice work, that mini 90s PC tower is so cute! Perfect choice for this machine! 👍
Wow, I need that setup in my room. Nice video, and cool project.
That case design is perfect. Great job. Maybe try reprinting the case in ABS and vapor smoothing it sometime down the road. Although you'd likely have much worse warping issues. Another options would be to try smoothing it with resin or wood filler, but then you'd also need to paint it.
The first version of the case reminds me of an IBM PC300 series desktop computer from the mid/late 90s
That was indeed one of the machines I looked at for inspiration. IBM did some great case design back in those days!
That turned out so, so well. Great job!
Love it! Haven´t seen a retro case solution like this before. Keep up the good work! :)
Wow! I love everything about this. Would love to have the talent to pull something like that off!
This is absolutely fantastic !
this morning I saw the firewall video and commented how cool it would be to make a little beige box for it. You were way ahead of me lmao
It was only the natural conclusion :D
Beautiful, good job!
What a fantastic project and great to see that the firewall which was probably too old now to be of any use is been made good use of again, The 3D printed case is so cool! Would love to see more projects like this in the future :) Subbed!
This just sings to my childhood nostalgia , that piezo beep , the startup sounds , and the fact you have it directly recoding the audio is golden for audiophiles like me :P and perfect timing with my own , Excellent work and great design on the case , it really ties the whole 90 beige theme together since the other firewall appliance chassis was really killin the vibe but wow !! All around total retro revival with full hardware support. Cant beat it ... shame i only have super large watchguard appliance i could do the same too so thanks for the inspiration i may do some rethinking !! But this curbed my win98 nostalgia for a bit , Happy New Year!
I think some of the Watchguards have MIPS CPUs in them, you might be able run a linux distro on it. then emulators
Hope to see more shenanigans like this! 😁
Awesome job on that pc and case!
Damn, its absolutley amazing. Good luck with next projects.
Nice going. I like the style.
Very cool. I have two of these laying around. Maybe it's time to actually do something with them.. 😂
Very cool build! Way more interesting than a modern fpga or pi solution. I think I was your thousandth subscriber! Congrats!
Awesome job! It looks amazing
An idea would be to model a Floppy drive in the front and put the CF card in it, so that you can Change the card easily without opening the case and it would Look cool
Bra jobbat! Riktigt kul projekt.
Looks amazing, won't lie.
Great Work! This looks awsome 👍
I had a Thecus NAS that had a header for VGA and PCI i never got around to modding and ended up selling it. Regretting that now!
Great video and second part to the original one - I think this channel is going to blow up if you keep up the great work
I have the same thing now! Thank you for doing 3D print link in description
Nifty new channel. Lots of effort in to this project too to make something unique.
this is awesome, subbed! cant wait to see more videos from you
Well done! I did really like that desktop IBM PC 300-style case, but the tower looks great too.
Just for future reference you can definitely go lighter on the super glue lol. Turned out great.
Awesome project. Look forward to more content. Subbed.
Can you share your first design? I think it looks super cool too, and the problems you have printing it are all related with your 3d printed mechanical assembly and possible calibration issues. Great work anyway, the second design looks amazing too! 😊
I want to see more 3d printed and custom mini PCs
Very cool! The only thing missing is a Model M keyboard. 👍
This is really cool! Subscribed, can't wait to see what you do next :)
Likewise!
God I wish I had the confidence to boot a project for the first time after I glued everything together.
Cute thing.
Awesome stuff.
You are a bad ass dude! Keep it up man!
Some great content, should definitely have more subscribers. Keep up the good work 👍🏻
100% agree!
Great videos, subscribed, keep up the good work!
Awesome video, subscribed!
Dude! This is so cool! Keep up the work! Btw, Hi from Sweden!
Hej hej!
Wow, super idea and video.
Here before 200 subs, I feel like this channel is gonna go real far
this came out great!
Really nice, i like it.
Great work dude.
Great Job, very nice
This is so awesome! I don't remember who makes them but someone takes old iPad lcds and puts them in a little crt styles enclosure. This would be perfect along side one of those!
Yeah, I saw those on LGR and have been thinking the same thing. I wish they sold just the STLs though, so I could print it using the same filament as the computer.
your soo underrated you deserve 500k subs
Very Nice!
It is just beautiful!
Nice video!
Excellent !
this thing is amazing
Talk about a nice rig.. :)
Brilliant!!!
Nice project. Great video I'm subbed now
I'm officially impressed by this project.
Yes, the tower design is a perfect fit, however if you could manage to reconstruct the case from sheet metal, a desktop layout probably could be better, as you could place the monitor on top. Of course that also would require some reinforcements for the case itself.
I think it would be really funny to make it look exactly like the speakers.
The CRT on the desktop didn't work well unless you are tall, and/or you are comfortable putting an adjustable seat fairly high. The original monitor set-up was made for business, after all, not gaming.
Yo this is rad. I wasn't even aware that the grey box in the thumbnail was still the firewall!
I built a micro8088 and kind of want to design and 3D print a case for that some day. Maybe an AT case because I like that one much more than the XT and my micro8088 has a NECV20 in it. Hmm... maybe I can be legit and make it the XT case.
that tiny noctua is so cute i want to eat it.
Jävlar vad häftigt.
Plus i kanten denna gång till google som rekomenderade denna. Sub direkt.
Men, nu blir man ju sugen att leta efter gamla brandväggar att leka med. :-)
Holy hell yes.
Cool... but if you did want to squeeze it back into the original case you could go with a disk on module for the hard drive, and a USB sound card. That should cut back on the space requirements enormously.
I see you switched from midi music to sound blaster some time between this and the previous video. Good call. I've always thought sound blaster sounds better than general midi. It sounds so much darker. Guitars sound cheap on midi. It's better with a synthesizer to actually make midi sound good, but there's still a charm to sound blaster.
wooow, im loving it
Where can I find this Clavister S-Series Firewall model to buy?
Beautiful project! I assume the network ports don't work (that would be cherry on top), but very interesting idea. Congrats!
They would probably work with the correct drivers, but there don’t seem to be any for Win98. The ports are essentially four separate PCI network cards.
great job ending with Doom.
That is so cool
Wow, this content is fuckin top tier. Love it!
1st project was nice, it wasn't project issue. Throw out Cura and get Prusa Slicer, you should get a retracion calibrate and replace stock filament cooler to a 5015 blower. And it's better to change stock hotend to a E3D v6. You will see ho much your prints would be better.
Yeah, that old ender 3 is definitely due for some tuneups.
@@OddObsolete so you shoud alsow get a new mb with TMC like SKR. It would be much quiet and stable print.
Have you considered doing a benchmark/stress-test just to see what temperatures it might reach?
I would love to make this for my son.
jädra cool mini dator.
Looks quite good, must say- however isn't it possible to use some fine sandpaper to get rid of some of the super rough part on the front? Smoothen it? I don't know as I've haven't done 3d printing myself and is therefor not familiar with the materials for it.
Most likely, but I haven’t attempted smoothing PLA before. Am gonna have to experiment some with that.
@@OddObsolete already tried sanding White pla, the results looked horrible. One Option would be to get some PVB, its very simmilar to pla and prints also easily without a case + it can be smoothed with Isopropanol. Its a bit more expensive, 25€ for a spool from Prisament but its worth it
You sound exactly like Hans Wiklund of Tv4 fame :D
Do you have drivers installed for the GPU and motherboard? Maybe if you could find the right ones it might improve performance?
I do, and I get DirectDraw acceleration, but no Direct3D or OpenGL.
What driver did you get for GPU, The Twister is available from the VIA driver portal... maybe you need to pair an appropriate DirectX with it, I think DX6 tallies with the capabilities of the Savage 4 era
I believe it was the official drivers from VIA that I used, and with DX6. I plan on checking out how Win2k works on this machine. Perhaps there'll be better support in those drivers.
Is it good idea to print a fraction thicker wall / walls and after to use a sand paper to make it nice?? :)
Maybe, I’ve never really attempted any kind of post processing on my prints.
You should totally try toying with some AMD dual core E series based terminals - they go for about 5€, usually have 2 slots for DDR3 up to 16 GB (some have PC other have laptop slots), on the one I tried there was an early UEFI bios and I could assign up to 4GB to the built in HD 6 series GPU. Sadly I never tried running XP on it before giving it away but if you could run XP it would make for an ultimate mini PC for XP games, the built in GPU should easily run any XP games the only problem would be actually booting the XP - you can easily find all the drivers but some machines running AMD APUs from that era would just give me a bluescreen on boot. I really like the dell terminals cases - they look exactly like an average 2006 PC just scaled down 10 times :D
Yeah, that’s an interesting idea! I recently picked up something similar, but with an Atom CPU and Nvidia ION2 GPU. Apparently it has been used for driving digital billboards. Have no idea if there are any XP drivers available though.