My daughter (4.5 yrs old) has for 2+ years been using my PowerMac 8600 to play her games and run her learning software. But when I began working out of the home last year, she got less and less time on it. So, a few weeks ago, I had seen how somebody had built a computer enclosure out of Mega Blocks, and that gave me an idea.

The desk is a 'Todays Kids' activity desk we had gotten for my daughter a couple of years ago. The desk originally had a reversible chalkboard/pegboard where the screen is now.

The computer is actually a PB 540c (parts from several PB 5xx's I had around). The plastics from these were pretty bad, and the 540c screen has a vertical line running down the right side, so I had no qualms about disassembling them and building my own enclosure of sorts.

The Screen is enclosed in/mounted to Lego's (note the Powerbook 540c emblem above the screen!); the cpu and hard drive are in the desktop (the blue thing) just below the keyboard; the floppy is mounted in the 'cabinet' beneath the desktop, with the opening cut into the side of that cabinet (you can't see it in any of the pictures); in the cabinet beneath the desktop is a 5 disk SCSI cd changer (cuz I needed it, and was able to get it for ~$30.00).

I didn't originally want the keyboard to be accessible (most software for 3-5 yr old kids don't need keyboard input), but it was too hard to power on and add software without it, so I cut open the top of the desk and added the keyboard back.

I'm still not done with this... I want to mount the speakers within the desk, and I want to make the keyboard more flush with the desk top.

As it is, in these hot summer days, the kids use this extensively (2-3 hours a day).