Instructions

To attach all the needed components to the case I decided to use transparent materials. For this, LEXAN is a great choice. Yes, it is transparent but what makes this material interesting is that you can bend it cold! You don't have to warm it up like you have to do with most acrylics but just apply enough force so it bends. Keep it there for a moment and it will stay like that. Ok, there will be some slight straightening for a time but just bend it little over the point you want it to be and it will settle there. Hard to explain this any better but you'll just love this when you get to try it. Great stuff.

bending

Here is a photo to demonstrate how I did most of the bending. You will need to apply quite a lot of force but I didn't manage to snap a one piece of this even with 180 degree bends.

For power supply

Installed

Power supply was taken from an Epia case made by Morex. It uses an external transformer and the circuit board that you can see in the image is the DC-DC part. I originally planned on using regular ATX power supply and it would have worked but I didn't like the idea because it is hard to find a regular power supply that doesn't need a fan to cool it down. My original plan would have situated the ATX supply above the hard drive. Both located on the center of the mounting plate.

I installed the supply between those black holders so I could slide it off easily. Too bad that I couldn't find any transparent versions. :)

For hard drive

Installed

Design that allows me to slide that hard drive from the plate easily and I don't have to use any tools. This case isn't ment to be moved and used at the same time so the hard drive doesn't need any hard core mounting.

For the plate

Installed

No tools needed for installation. :) Just slide that center plate in place with all the components at once. These guides will help in installation and they will also keep the plate in it's place.

PS2 connector's wires

Additional PS2 connectors soldered in parallel

New connectors facing to the center of the board

VIA has placed the PS2 connectors for keyboard and mouse to the far edge of the board. This rendered the connectors useless for me. I didn't want to drill more holes to the sphere so that the plugs could be used so I had to solder pair of new connectors in parallel to the old ones. This allowed me to use regular plugs because relocating the connectors they wouldn't hit the sphere's wall.

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