[TriLUG] OT: wall mounted PCs?

[Greg Brown]

Since handhelds.org was down all weekend I could not upgrade my iPAQ to 
Linux so I came up with something different to think about (but I'll still 
preform the upgrade, and write up a how-to for the future how-to section).

Anyway, my computers are located in my bonus room, and that room is fairly 
small.  The computers that sit in the standard cases all over the floor are 
in the way quite often so I came up with the idea of mounting them to the 
wall.

What I'd like to do is find a way to mount the motherboard, power supply, and 
drives to a board painted to match the wall then cover the thing in 
plexiglass (to protect from anyone touching the thing and giving it a static 
shock.  I'd also like to put some of those groovy computer power supply run 
neon lights inside the plexiglass case.

Does this seem like it would work?  Other than providing a common ground and 
keeping static off the computer does the case really do anything?  It seems 
that cooling slits could be cut into the top of the plexiglass case and fans 
added to the bottom to pull in cooler air and let the hot air out.

If this idea would work does anyone know where one can get plexiglass for 
this kinda thing?

Greg