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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."
Has the slashdot effect taken this page down? I can't seem to reach it. I do have to say though that 250 hours of working on a case is amazing. I'd love to see it.
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Check out the guy's page stats here.
Look here for some cool cases. IMHO this case in the slashdot story isn't all that.
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It appears the /casemod subdirectory was removed from his webserver. Here's the Google cached version:
: www.vieren.be/casemod/+&hl=en
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:q2MWTRCyeksC
From dictionary.com:
Although, after seeing a few posts here, he could have just misspelled it...;)
http://216.74.64.37/casemod/index.htm
Hmmm. You don't seem to know much about metal, do you? Aluminum is a rather "soft" metal, therefore it doesn't require rather expensive machine tools to machine. If one wanted to (and had a decent set of hand or low-end power tools) you could ostensibly make this at home in your garage. Of course, the laser-cutting device might not fit unless you had a large garage.
Magnesium and Steel, on the other hand require some serious hardware. Plus, steel is rather heavy, although a rusted out case might look pretty cool.
To VIEW moded cases, anyway.
http://pcdb.overclockers.com.au/ (over 3000 cases).
Best place I've found to buy parts to mod
your case would be www.pcmods.com
Wow. That is pretty cool. Speaking of cube computers thoguh, i found some other interesting designs.. check out www.soldam.com for these really nice small looking cubes... Note the price is in yen though, use this to convert.
..pcable
Those "neat" logo cut-outs on the side are like garage doors for EMI radiation.
That'd be a high frequency EM wave that can fit through what looks to be gap of about 1cm. About 30 GHz, actually, which puts it into the microwave range. If your PC is emitting in the microwave range, something's probably wrong in the first place. Plus, it's not going to interfere with much.
The whole site seems to redirect to this page:
:)
http://case.1be.be
I'm not quite clear what he is doing. I think it might be trying to send back a permanent page redirect, and IE does not like it.
Although at one point I turned off friendly http error display on IE and then the site came right up. Next time I tried that, it said it was redirecting to 216.74.64.37/casemod which doesn't seem to respond.
To use Occam's Razor, "Never attribute to malice what can be adequatedly explained by stupidity." I don't think this was intentional, the whole configuration of that web server is just whacked.
That being said, that case is cool! I wouldn't mind something like that at home.
Well, hell, I posted this as an AC, but wtf, a score of 0? Craptacular.
/., as the moron hasn't fixed the size issues.
Dennis Vieren has moved the pictures of the case to: http://case.1be.be/.
Go forth and
And in case it comes up, nor do older Porsches (356s, 914s, older 911s, etc).
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One of the best places for all things mechanical - sheet metal, aluminum, brackets, fasteners - is McMaster-Carr. At mcmaster.com their entire catalog is online (don't even _try_ to get a paper copy) and the 'Raw Materials' section will let you sort in a myriad of different ways. Add to that incredible 1-DAY shipping, at STANDARD UPS COST, and you see why these guys are on every engineering firm's Christmas card list.
-- "They say that time changes things. The truth is, you have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol, adapted)
Guess again. The CE mark has absolutely nothing to do with the FCC.
The FCC is an independent United States government agency that is is charged with regulating interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable.
The CE mark is used the by the European Commission as a "passport" which can allow a manufacturer to freely circulate their products within the European marketplace
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Dutch mirror with the most important pics: http://www.tweakers.net/nieuws/20762