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03/05/2006: "Part 3: Putting it all together"
Now that all the pre-assembly work is done it’s time to get this contraption wired and working.
We need to start off doing some pre-wiring because once that box is epoxied to the back of the cover there will not be much room to solder. I decided to do the switches and jacks since they will be the least accessible. As you will see you have to think this out because after assembly some joints will difficult if not impossible to reach.
Adapting the battery charger to the computer jack would be easy since the car plug supplied 12v to the charger. The cell phone on the other hand had a circuit built into the plug. This is the part we are after.
Here is the charger before disassembly.
As you can see in the next picture the charger itself is pretty small.
When you open it up you find that the circuit itself is even smaller.
Not much bigger than a quarter, this will fit perfectly in the corner.
This is what it look like mounted to the back of the panel.
View from the top. 
Working on the pre-wiring. 
Pre-wiring done gluing the box to the panel. 
Box clamped to panel waiting for epoxy to set 
With the epoxy set finish wiring up the control panel.
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With the wiring done the only step left is to get the speakers to the input jack at the back of the box and back out to the speakers. I did this using two stereo jacks mounted to a card slot cover. One is for the input from the sound card and one for output to the speakers. I am sorry but I do not have any pics of this but here is a drawing of what I did.
Here is a pic of the rear panel with the card slot with speaker jacks.
Here it is in the computer finally. Sorry about the glare.
This is my case with just the case fan and power supply lighting.
And with all the lights on.
Another view of the side lit up.
A couple of pics of the back with the lights on.
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And for the final photo, a pic of the cell phone charging from the front of my computer.
I hope you enjoy doing this build as much as I did and I hope that maybe in some strange way, I might have inspired you to get busy and control your own computer.
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