My XBOX...AmericaBox!!!

[Huitzlopochtli]

Suggestions are welcome:
http://home.comcast.net/~dramesh/
the picture of the back of the box is supposed to show the switch embedded in the box

 

[Huitzlopochtli]

needs some repainting b/c I slipped up w/ the dremel a few times, but thats it

 

[linuxn00b2004]

Just about the only thing I would suggest, since you are doing an "American-box," would be changing the cathode in the jewel. Perhaps putting in 9 LEDs instead: 3 red, 3 white, and 3 blue. If you wanted to get really fancy, then use a bread board to create a circuit that would switch between the three LED colors every few seconds.

The LEDs in the controller ports and power LED look great. (BTW, what brightness are your LEDs? I could stand to install some brighter ones in mine...) That's about all. Glad to have you in the modding scene!

- Greg

 

[kimosabe]

Next: "Anarchy in the UK Box" ;D

 

[XCRAZNMIKE]

i did one like this last year but i had a decal specially made with the flag on it I also had UV lights behind it

 

[TokenUser]

Cool - red, white, and blue ...
Same colours as UK, Australia, France, Chile, China, Cuba, France, Netherlands, Iceland, North Korea, Laos, Norway, Russia, Serbia, Thailand, Puerto Rico, and Panama (to name a few).

 

[Dragonis.Lou]

If you wanna make an "American" box, i think a good paint scheme would be to paint the entire box white... cut out a bunch of star patterns on carboard or something, tape of the grills, then paint the 'X' blue. then tape of the 'X' and paint the top of the grills red. that way, the grills will be striped.

make it look like the American flag.

 

[Huitzlopochtli]

actually, i only realized it had the america theme after I ordered the cathode and painted everything. it wasn't planned...more like a side effect. anyway, i need to repaint it.

 

[TokenUser]

If you wanna make an "American" box, i think a good paint scheme would be to paint the entire box white... cut out a bunch of star patterns on carboard or something, tape of the grills, then paint the 'X' blue. then tape of the 'X' and paint the top of the grills red. that way, the grills will be striped.

I vote for dayglo orange around the sides, and a big ole confederate flag on top - the Gen'ral Lee Xbox. Be better with a slot loading DVD - no doors to open.

 

[XCRAZNMIKE]

Cool - red, white, and blue ...
Same colours as UK, Australia, France, Chile, China, Cuba, France, Netherlands, Iceland, North Korea, Laos, Norway, Russia, Serbia, Thailand, Puerto Rico, and Panama (to name a few).

heh funny guy I have a DVD window with a big polygon star , it looks ok but i dont like my version that much so im saving money to purchase a new one also for the above poster the Rebel Flag ,Confederate flag, means anti America which most people know the south (where the flag originated) tried to become seperate from the north which was called america

 

[TokenUser]

HEY - you are referring to me twice in the same post!
And you damn yankees can take your union and shove it where the sun don't shine (damn, I've been living in the south too long ... must be a sugar rush from all that sweet tea).

Anyway - the shape of the xbox lends itself to the Confederate Flag more than the stars and stripes. It struck me that taking it one step further to a Dukes of Hazzard themed box would probably work out pretty well.

FWIW - I am an Aussie living in NC ... not a redneck. Car racing for me involves Fords, Holdens, and a smattering of imports running around Mt Panorama, not the left handed banked turns of NASCAR.

Anyone know where I can get the Supercars game from in the US? or was it just a PAL release??

 

[XCRAZNMIKE]

HEY - you are referring to me twice in the same post!
And you damn yankees

Im from TX

 

[kimosabe]

Yep me too, I live in Houston. so I'm more southern than you

 

[XCRAZNMIKE]

FT Worth Here