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hamster writes: "Chris Pauli took computer case customizations to a new high: an oak cube. Looks like a lot of work!" I believe this is what happened to Flay's cutting board after he threw it away.
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once?
twice?
three times?
four times?
five times?
six times?
or do you want the palm pilot version?
I mean, yeah. You can make cases out of cool stuff. I guess the reason I'm pissed is cuz people are submitting real important items and they're getting rejected.
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This is my SIG. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
It works extremely well. Best part is that my box is *completely* quiet. It's like having a fanless box. I've almost started to get annoyed by the noise my monitor makes. :)
It looks pretty cool too.
-henrik
It's cool, but I wonder about "heat" issues. Warm air blowing through something tends to dry it out pretty well.
Nevertheless, a very cool mod.
Equally cool mod done to the virgin webplayer. Go forth and slashdot him. Someone please post a mirror.
He wants to solar power this too.
http://www.unternet.org/~frank/projects/webplay
Some specs:
- sheet metal case (used to be part of an army 2-stroke fuel pack)
- 6 mm polycarbonate ('lexan') 'screen'
- aluminium chassis, doubling as processor cooler
- 2 * IBM Travelstar 20GB drives
- internal 12V->5V converter based on Max724
- external interfaces: USB, power, audio, modem
- IR keyboard
- DOC as 'emergency backup OS', it contains a small GNU/Linux installation.
I might choose to leave out the DOC and the modem, and go for an external USB modem instead. Anyone know a good place in Vancouver to buy stuff like that? I only need the modem when I find myself in the vicinity of a telephone, so I can put some imagery on the website I'll make for the trip.
It will be hosting a webcam which will snap a picture every X seconds and record 'interesting' sound events (hence the two drives, the trip will take about 2.5 months so I need quite a lot of disk space). It runs a slightly modified Debian GNU/Linux 'testing' distribution (currently using the 2.4.4 kernel with some USB patches). Agressive use of APM keeps power consumption down (eg. screen blank after 2 minute, I won't need the screen anyway most of the time. The camera will be mounted on a headband, or just attached to the canoe somewhere, and merrily document the whole trip.
The slashdot 2 minute between postings limit: /.'ers since Spring 2001.
Pissing off hyper caffeineated
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I've seen about a hundred each wood and clear acrylic cases on various sites. Nothing new, and nothing that great, IMHO.
On the other hand, I'd kill (or pay $$$) for a STONE case. Any kind. Black marble or onyx or maybe granite or even just reinforced concrete. Something very heavy, very primitive and very ageless-looking. No LEDs showing, hidable drive bays... So that most of the time, it's just a stone cube, sitting in the corner, being heavy.
Oh, the romance...
STOP . AMERICA . NOW
He does state that "Temperatures are a bit higher then they were in my [other case]".
So I thought I'd go into it. Since its 1:30am, and heck, its not like I really need the sleep. =)
(1) I noticed that on this Oak case, I didn't see and vents of the sort. Just an extra fan. Vents are good.
(2)There is a reason that cases are metal. Besides the obvious fact that its easy to produce and its cheaper. This being that the Thermal conductivity of Aluminum is 240 W/(m*Celcius), but for Oak, this is sooo much less, ranking in at just 0.15 W/(m*Celsius).
Conduction of heat through a material is = (Thermal Conductivity)*(Cross sectional Area)*(Change in temp between the outside and the inside of the box)*(time) / (width of the wood)
So one can see that having a larger value of Thermal Conductivity allows alot more heat to transfer through. And visa versa for a smaller.
Case in point, a metal case will allow alot more heat to flow through it than a wooden case.
Hey!!! We should build houses from Wood!!! Ummm, oh ya...nevermind. =)
If these things ever take off in terms of popularity, every time someone's fan dies there will be a smoldering box of wood ash, molten plastic, and copper lying in an office building, den or bedroom somewhere.
Insurance companies will HATE these things.
"Before we can insure you Mr. Goldstein, I have a few questions. Do you use tobacco? No. Good. Do you have any of those silly flamable wooden computers? Ok, then you monthly premium is...DAMN, I pay this much per year, um,,,"
-You can cry, but you'll still die. There'll be no tears in the end.