Project WMD

Project WMD

      This mod is a prime example of summer time boredom.

The idea was conceived during the summer of 2005. Team America World Police was big, and the war on terror was even bigger. At this time I’ve seen and heard of people who have put computers into things like VCRs, CD players, and coffee makers.

I was thinking... I’m into modding, I’m up for a challenge. So I decided to make a computer disguised as a WMD after the terrorist’s WMD in the opening scene of Team America: World Police. So I began to plot out how it would be constructed. I had rejected plans with a floppy drive bay opening on the side of the machine. I had other plans for a floppy drive sitting just above the CD ROM, but those were also refused since it would of taken to much strength out of one side. Thus the whole idea of including a floppy just became to complicated for the effort to include the prehistoric technology. And was removed out from final plans. I originally decided to use a socket 370 board or maybe a slot 1 board, I was aiming for a low end Pentium III.(450mhz-600mhz) But due to some difficulties of obtaining a working socket 370 board, I gutted an old IBM computer I had for sale.(socket 7 500mhz) 

The picture on the right is of the gutted socket 7 system, actually running as it stands in the photo. At this point in time I have my computer... I have my basic plans...I now need my suitcase. So I went out and invested a whole 5 dollars on a suitcase at a second hand store, gutted out the little gay frills on the inside. I was then left with a plastic and pine shell of a suitcase, ready to receive the computer’s guts. Then on a hot summers day it finally came...         

    CONSTRUCTION DAY!!!

The first thing to be done was construct and mount the plywood frame. And after a half hour with a closet full of power tools the plywood was cut and suspended from the wooden sides using angle brackets. Then the mobo, CD ROM, hdd, etc were all measured off and the labor intensive external cuts were made with a house hold hobby knife. Once that was cut out the mobo, CD ROM, and power supply were all installed. Then little things were added like a whole for a network cable(since LAN was not built in on the board). I also put the hhd led and the power led on the out side near the handle along with the “arming switch”, to give it a real brief case bomb look. Later I installed a Hard Drive rack and covered the ugly inner lid and ply wood with black paint. This put more focus on the actual “bomb” rather then the hideous factors of the case.(You can get an idea of the look by looking at the unpainted case in the photo above) Then I installed a Green Neon Light which takes on the role as a glowing uranium fuel rod. When the time came around to make the CPU look more like the reactor core, rather then a pile of cheap cooling, it was decided to put a glowing fan with a nuclear fan grill. The glowing radiation symbol only adds to the illusion of radioactivity in the case.

So I went on ebay and was astonished to see I could get a green led fan from china for $3 Canadian, but in typical internet fashion it was to good to be true. I ended up with THE CHEAPEST fan I have ever seen. Even for made in china standards it was low! So I eventually bought a fan at a local computer store, which has given me the final result. Which was finally unveiled at the “Computer Parts Unleashed” first LAN party.

So there you have it I, Kurt Luchia, have taken mere summertime boredom, a suitcase, and an unwanted computer, and made it into a wicked mod.

Before:

And After...

At Night...

Well that was my WMD Mod I hope you all enjoyed hearing about it as much as I enjoyed building it!