How I made a custom PC case as a Mechanical Engineer

Paul Lee
11 min readMay 6, 2021

I wanted a PC that was compact, portable, robust, and simply… different. The best and least cost-effective way to do this is by creating my own custom case.

Figure 1: Final Custom PC Case by Paul Lee

Introduction

I’m a mechanical engineer by degree from the University of Texas at Austin. When designing this case, I really should have ran heat and flow simulations to validate the…

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Paul Lee

M.S. in CS — GaTech | B.S. in ME — UT Austin