some things first.
I suck at electronics. I can solder well enough but expecting me to know what's what on a board is bad. I am, however, good at designing things. My case layout shouldn't be too much of a problem, if someone wouldn't mind helping me with airflow/cooling that would be great.
On to the questions!!
1: I haven't seen anything for connecting the camera like in the elite video. is there a tutorial I can't find floating around?
2: what program do you use for your case layout? I've got Maya, Photoshop, and ImageReady and I'm sure they would all work just fine. This is really more to sate my curiosity.
3: case materials. I want something that's high quality. I want this thing to look like Microsoft made it and I'm one of the few who has one. Only more reliable *rimshot*
I understand ways to construct cases (vac form, franken, blahdiblah) but the actual material the case is made out of is what I wanna know about.
4: where do I get something like:

that one's not the right size but it's kinda what I'm lookin for. I figured I'd have metal insides with plastic outsides and would need some way to make sure they stay together.
and finally
5: why hasn't ben started a store with a whole bunch of tools and parts and stuff? seems logical to me.
anyway. if you answer this thanks.