The Mac mini was already being used as a media center Mac, where it was connected to the television in the family room. We saw this toy Millennium Falcon and thought, hmmmm....that should work!
Millennium Falcon Mac mini
We picked up this Millennium Falcon plastic toy model for about $20.00. It is made by Playskool. It is available at Amazon.com. We picked this up locally from a toy store at Downtown Disney.

The Mac mini was already being used as a media center Mac, where it was connected to the television in the family room. We thought it would be cool to have this available for double duty. Make this work as a computer or continue to serve it's media center functions. Either way, we could just plug in the VGA or S-Video cables for however it would be used.
We started with the toy as seen above and below in this picture.
It seemed to have enough space inside for a Mac mini, as long as it was easy to remove all the inside plastic pieces. So the deconstruction started.

After starting to disassemble the inside, we ran into a problem where all the supports would be in the way for where we were to put the Mac mini. Well, that wasn't going to work, so they all had to go. We marked what we thought needed to go and then it was time to dremel.
The next step was to add a front mounted USB extension cable, for the iPod shuffle. This was pretty straight forward, just dremel out the small area needed, a little hot glue and reassemble the top of the falcon. We really weren't worried about the looks on the inside, as once this was reassembled, you couldn't really see all the plastic on the inside and it was the outside that would make the most impression.
Here is how the front mounted USB port turned out, not too bad, even with our horrible dremel skills.
Here is one with the iPod shuffle inserted. We thought about putting a little sticker that said made for iPod on the front, but decided against it as it was funny enough just seeing an iPod shuffle sticking out of the front of the Millennium Falcon. I wonder what Luke Skywalker or Hans Solo would have had on their iPod? Oh well, no time for that, onto the next step.

Next step was to install an iSight camera in the top hatch.
We had to dremel out the plastic window. Again, don't grade us on our dremel skills, as we do not have any. We realize that it looks like Luke might have just light sabered the hatch to death, but it still turned out okay for our needs.
One challenge was to get the iSight to stay mounted. We had already removed the insides of the hatch and figured out that the remaining plastic mounts would support the iSight. Once we found this rubber washer, it slide right into the groove of the hatch and sat perfectly. We would love to tell you where to get this rubber washer from, but we can't as it was just a random one found in a junk drawer in the garage. 
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