By Chris Chang, posted Jul 9, 2009 at 5:22 PM, 2,059 views,

D.I.Y Atom Nettop is Highly Recyclable

Nettops are really affordable for everyone, but D.I.Y nerds love to build cheap looking ones to suit their needs. Here’s a homemade nettop built over a document basket, it may seem somewhat cheapskate, but this nettop’s design is absolutely brilliant. PC cases for mini-itx motherboards are expensive at Taiwan, so this guy made one to save money for other gadgets.

The document basket has lots of holes for easy-modification, and better cooling for the interior parts. Another basket is used to install the hard drive on it, and combined together to form the ‘Cheapskate’ D.I.Y Nettop. The Chinese guy says it only cost him for $188 (US$6) to build the case. Awesome!

(More pics on his thread.)