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Impressive Homemade Aluminum Cube Case
baschie writes "A Belgian guy, Dennis Vieren, probably designed and built the most beautiful aluminium case ever, called project "Frozen". He designed his case from the ground up using CAD software, and built it from plates of 3mm aluminium and 3 mm acrylic glass. It cost him about 300/400 euro, and took him about 250 hours to build."
That case is a work of art!
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You fucking retard. The element is 'aluminium', not 'aluminum'.
Swell. Let's see... the raw materials cost more than that, and assuming a sweatshop slave wage rate for 250 hours .. oh, it cost him about ten times as much as your bid. Don't hold your breath waiting for his excited reply to your generous offer.
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He had to make up for the fact that he has an Athlon instead of a P4.
No. Apple's cases are only suitable for use with modern computers. If you use 'em with a typical x86 motherboard 'n' stuff, you'll probably wind up with a blob of molten plastic.
Thus, the need remains unfilled.
Maybe that's ok, though. Maybe super-neato cases should be limited to the "elite" who are willing to put the effort into making them. Ownership of neat case would be a badge of craftsmanship, rather than the usual -- *yawn* -- wealth. There's already enough symbols of wealth out there; let the real doers have something of their own.
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The correct spelling was originally aluminium (following the convention of other elements' spelling (barium, cadmium, uranium...).
The adoption of the incorrect spelling dates back to a period when most of the world's aluminium was being sent to the U.S.for use in aircraft parts. The trouble was the Americans couldn't spell and consequently they kept leaving out the second "i"... Eventually the incorrect spelling stuck.
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I bet this was true for Jennifer Lopez.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
does anyone else think this guy is a complete, well, retard for spending 250 hours on this thing? that is utterly crazy. considering the simplicity of such a project I'm not sure how one could even drag that sort of thing out. I would image you could spend, at the absolute maximum, 1 day designing the thing in a cad program. then, with all of the measurements and such, you could spend another extremely long drawn-out day trying to achieve all of the random parts, and getting the specs to your friend to cut out the pieces. Then, you could spend another 2 or 3 days at max (again, if you drag your feet the whole way, and take 20x as much time as necessary to do anything) to assemble everything, and you are done, having spent at the absolute maxium, 5 days, maybe 6 if you drag everything out even more (just add another buffer day in there). and, I'm thinking of all of these days as weekend days where you can give a large portion of the time to these tasks.
All in all, you end up with a max of 6 days, working perhaps 10 to 15 hours each day on the specific tasks, for a total of 90 hours, mind you these are non-consecutive weekend days, etc. I could imagine that if you tried for the fastest time possible that you could minimize the work time, and maximize trips, etc for efficiency and end up only working on the project for 10 or hours and you would achieve the same product.
This guy really had to waste some time in there, it would be interesting to see an itemized list of how he spent time on this project.... (Day 15 - Went to work for 9 hours, thought about project during the day, +9 Hours to Project time)