Do-It-Yourself Wall-Mounted PC

ZAK STOREY, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

I have a plan. Well, sorta…

I’VE SPOKEN in the past about my love for Ikea Skadis pegboards. I’ve got a few dotted around my office, holding everything from headphones, laptops, and PC hardware to a Nordic bearded axe (thanks, Pops!), my sports memorabilia, and even Warhammer paints, and it got me thinking: What if you could turn one into a PC case?

We’ve seen plenty of wall-mounted PCs, and there’s a ton of cases, too. Thermaltake offers one, and there’s a few from other manufacturers, but they’re usually pricey, cumbersome, tricky to put together, and covered with chunky glass. Traditionally, wall-mounted PCs were made from purpose-cut acrylic or similar, but technically, you could get a Skadis pegboard and convert it into a chassis quite easily. At least, that’s what my brain is telling me.

And that’s sorta what I think I’m going to do. Maybe not for next issue, but the one after. I’m going to take a white Skadis pegboard, spray it a custom color, create a mounting mechanism for a motherboard, pilfer some parts from the Hydra Mini (including its power button), then, hopefully, build one kick-ass wall-mounted PC.