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Impressive Homemade Aluminum Cube Case

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the computers-don't-have-to-be-ugly dept.

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."

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  1. Re:/.-ing commencing.... by luge · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You can watch the pain at his ISP's stats page.

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  2. Some decent work... by danamania · · Score: 5, Interesting
    It's nice to see 'case mods' reach a point where they're more than a simple light or hole in the case.

    Take a look at the modifications that extreme custom car builders do to their transport, not out of any practical reason, but for the love of building something with the most extreme quality. With imagination and hard work you can inject a LOT of style into your PC. I'd like to see systems with some insane 'tidying'... the auto customisers hidden wiring tricks, colour coded everything, even components laid out in an aesthetic manner. Not for practicality, but just -because-

    If that's not your thing however - good for you. Everyone has a little excess (read: pointless but pretty) style in their life. Like the friend of mine who derides Mac cases for their 'prettiness' and claims function means all the most to her, but drives a more expensive bespoilered sporty looking car with no more performance than an average one.

  3. It's all that and a bag of chips... by megaduck · · Score: 5, Interesting

    While case mods are cool, they're just modifications of boring old PC cases. What's super-cool about this cube is that it was built from scratch and doesn't look like a traditional computer.

    Besides, how many case modders use CAD and laser-cut aluminum? That's just nifty.

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  4. Re:That's because stupid Americans can't spell... by rabidcow · · Score: 4, Interesting

    WRONG. The original spelling was alumium. (no "in")

    This was then changed to aluminum, then aluminium. Then it changed back to aluminum in the US.

    See http://www.world-aluminium.org/history/language.ht ml

    But none of this really matters unless you wanna go back to wulfram, plubnum, etc. (and originally, English had no "correct" spellings for anything.)