[Benevolance]

I have discovered that I love to tinker. Jenn and I are currently setting up a workspace in our garage and reorganizing the space to accomodate more tools. I'll have to pull the car out of the garage when I want to work on something, but temporary curbside parking is a such small price to pay for a workshop in my house.

The next project I want to work on is a small touch-screen juke box built into an old standing floor radio. I'm leaning towards an old Philco. Ebay has some small ~8" touch screen monitors selling for around $30-60. Slap a wireless card onto an old computer inside with a big hard drive for remote maintenance...I think it would be pretty awesome. What do you guys think? Would that be a cool project?

Here's a photo of the Philco I'd use for inspiration:

http://www.antiqueradios.com/gallery/d/47812-2/Philco_42_380.jpg

[chai-ta]

Hell yeah.

Are you thinking of streaming music from a laptop/desktop to minimize harddrive requirements internally?

I could see adding a small SD slot to allow the machine to work without the network -- be easy to create a playlist for a party and not worry about network problems.

[Benevolance]

My current computer will go inside. It's got a 250 GB hard drive that currently houses our media library. I hadn't considered streaming as an option, but that isn't a bad idea.

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I could see adding a small SD slot to allow the machine to work without the network

That is ingenious, if coupled with streaming the audio.

[OverdrivePrime]

Holy crap. That would be massively cool if you can pull it off, Lance! Particularly with the Chai-ta addition. I'd have fun with internal lighting for a party setting.