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This project has been on the go slow pile for multiple reasons so I found some time to get it to Laser finished stage. Sorry to Steve S and his thread I polluted with some of it.

Minimal Volume using a MITX board and Ryzen APU (no graphics card needed) 16GB 3200 Mhz memory and a 500GB NvMe SSD. Built to take a modified 250W FSP power Supply.

Started out life as a simple sketch in Fusion 360 then evolving to a 22 part glue and screw together 3mm Ply flatpack kit. The material on the tester is some rubbish ply I wanted to finish off and the final unassembled one is an Australian Jarrah Hardwood. The plan is an oil and beeswax finish at this stage so I will add a few more pics of it as it gets glued assembled and finished.

Very Nice Tim - makeing a custom case to fit your needs is much prefered over having to settle for what someone else thought was useful.

Great stuff Tim. Your workspace reminds me of something??? Oh Yeah- every horizontal space withing my reach

Not sure if I am going to do another version with a view to sell them or not yet but it has been a good CAD challenge along with pushing the limits of what I do or don't know about Ply and Lasers. As this one needs a modded power supply it is beyond the average persons comfort zone even though the mods are all on the low voltage side.

@Gene the rear bench under the pics is a stack of Ply for an actual production run so I just shoved it to the back to keep the ply flat. Happy snap is the Soldering Fume extraction kit the ply is going into. I have had a custom Activated Carbon Fabric Filter made in China for it and it takes a DC fan for the suck.

The main bench is nominally tidier

Busy day but trial fitted the final parts and hammered the outer wrap jigsaw together. I cut these with my usual 0.18mm kerf which is just beyond an easy push fit so a few light taps with a hammer and block of timber is needed.

First bits are now waiting for the glue to dry.