Design the case to be assembled from bent metal sheets without any need for welding.
Diy sheet metal pc case.
At this point in my class all of our sheet metal projects have been very simple with at most one bend.
A 1m by 2m sheet of acrylic or aluminium shouldn t set you back more than around 20 and for small cases this will probably be enough to make the external shell and a few additional pieces.
In this video we ll be making a sweet looking pc case from scratch using cheap materials basic hand tools.
At the minimum you ll need a computer case.
Reduce the number of openings that cannot be created by punching holes has to be laser cut.
You could also be looking at if you have an existing case then you can skip the rest of this paragraph.
This is a great project to make if you are new to working with sheet metal.
There are thousands if not tens of thousands of cases on the market.
Also available in kit form.