I got tired of a case that kept over heating my Pentium 4. So i figured to re-purpose a coffee table and put a pc inside it. As this goes the only thing I have to say is those ccfl lights are nice while listienng to music playing rock band or just watching a movie. This is also the reason I visit this cite daily HACKADAY!
Happy to at least try on a budget. I was gonna use a laptop harvest its LCD screen maybe for a projector haven't gotten to it yet. But I like older hardware as they seem to be useful for projects like these. Try it first with a beater then look for parts on sale. Took about 5yr just to get this far on a pension you know this is impressive.