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Bubble-Plexi Case Mod
sandv!per writes: "If you want to spruce up the front of your case a bit, and those lighted case badges don't seem like enough, check out Matt's guide on making a "bubble-plexi" mod." There are disclaimers and warnings all over the place about
injuring yourself while attempting this mod, so have fun but don't bitch if
you lose a thumb ;)
I see one post and I already can't get at the site. Anyone care to make a mirror who has it in their cache?
today is spelling optional day.
This has *got* to be a record....no posts and it's already dead.
numero uno posto?
Oh no-o, you're-o not first-o!
I wonder if the article was taken down in anticipation of their server getting smashed flat by /.
********* sig: If you don't like the law, get filthy stinking rich, and buy a better one.
If you want to spruce up the front of your case a bit, and those lighted case badges don't seem like enough, check out Matt's guide on making a "bubble-plexi" mod." There are disclaimers and warnings all over the place about injuring yourself while attempting this mod, so have fun but don't bitch if you lose a thumb ;)
--
pants ahoy
Could we please get a category for casemods....so those of us who think the whole thing has been done to death can filter...
TODO: Something witty here...
...strike me as a bit, hmmm, useless. Unless, of course, it's for something necessary, like piping cooling water (or liquid N) for cooling. Sure, some of the blinking/neon lights are kinda cool to impress the friends and all, but my techno friends are generally more impressed by cool hardware/software implementations (real hacking) and generally consider the other trappings to be a bit frilly. The most impressive 'case mod' I've ever done was to actually install all the panels and properly close up the case on my wife's computer so it looked presentable. My own computers, on the other hand... hell, I can't even find the side panels, musta thrown'm out. I've got too much external hardware, ribbon cables, protoboards, etc, dandling out of most of them that I couldn't possibly even button up the case, let alone fancy it up with super-cool visual effects. oh, well, too each their own.
All things in moderation.
si!
mia computador est mui espciale!
I managed to get the first 3 pages up before it conked out.
Basically it's a mostly standard case mod, but he took a piece of plexiglas and melted it either over something or by cutting a hole in something and letting it sag down through it while warm. (Hadn't gotten to his description, just the pictures.)
A neat idea, but nothing totally amazing.
That said, I very well may take this new concept into consideration when I attempt my first real mod this summer. Try it again later when it's less slashdotted if you're into case mods.
Otherwise, just suffice it to say that he made a little dome out of plexiglas.
"You worthless post!"
-Shakespeare, 2 Gentlemen of Verona, 1. 1. 147
I'll take first pass, I scramble it up and I get:
I pled, "Lux me, Bobbi!"
personal attacks hurt, especially when deserved
ididthesamethingandmademyowncaseusingBubble-Plexib ut
nowicantusethespacebarsenceilostmythumbs
Here's Google's cache.
Star Trek: Voyager is dying.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *Voyager community when last month Nielsen confirmed that *Voyager accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all viewers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *Voyager has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *Voyager future. The hand writing is on the wall: *Voyager faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *Voyager because *Voyager is dying. Things are looking very bad for *Voyager. As many of us are already aware, *Voyager continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Tuvok is the most endangered of them all.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Star Trek: Voyager producer Rick Berman states that there are 7000 viewers of *Voyager. How many fans of Tuvok are there? Let's see. The number of *Voyager versus Chakotay-specific posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Tuvok fans. Tuvok posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Chakotay-specific posts. Therefore there are about 700 Tuvok fans. A recent article put Seven of Nine at about 80 percent of the *Voyager fanbase. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Seven of Nine fans. This is consistent with the number of Seven of Nine Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Paramount, abysmal ratings and so on, Star Trek: Voyager was ended as a series and the syndication rights were sold to another troubled company. Now that company is also dead, its corpse turned over to another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *Voyager has steadily declined in the ratings. *Voyager is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *Voyager is to survive at all it will be among hardcore Star Trek nerd fucks who are hoping to see Seven of Nine in a bikini. *Voyager continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *Voyager is dead.
Fact: Star Trek: Voyager is dead.
Case mods can get a little immature. I am all for being able to put the most air through my computer, and OC it alot, but really- isn't it just easier sometimes to just buy something a little faster? No that isn't the creative way, but the lights and all just get to me after a while. At first they are cool, but then I think that you should really be working on keeping you box(es) running fast in the first place. Think about expandabilty and useablity of lights and stickers. Now some case mods (like switchable fans) are acutally useable.
./ers in general think about case mods.. Do you have any? Are for for/against them? Think they are a waste of time? Good use of creativty?
I would like to know what
Tibbon
tibbon.com
Does anybody know where you might find those case LEDs (the ones with the pair of wires and the motherboard connector) for sale without having to buy the whole case (or a lot of 10,000)? I looked forever for those (I have a case with a few ATA cards in it and I wanted to connect up the LEDs to so I can see which chains are busy and what card is causing the occasional problems).
You'd think those LEDs would be everywhere, but so far all the ones I've managed to find have been scrounged from old cases. Even Radio Shack doesn't carry them (and I even looked through the catalog).
I read the internet for the articles.
HELLO,
I am posting this from my specially modded 486DX 33MHZ computer running Linux. Basically what I did was hollow out a goat carcass and put all of components inside its belly. I insert my dongle in it's anus and I put CDs in it's mouth. The left hoof has a track ball in it and I set my monitor on it's horns.
http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:LgxaYaBnbzkC: www.viperlair.com/articles/guides/mods/bubble/bubm od.htm+&hl=en
:)
..karma whoring, if only i had an account
The most creative case I've seen was made out of one of those tupperware storage bins you can get at walmart. Holes were cut out for all the connectors as well as intake and exhaust vents.
Take a look!
Go here
-- Adam
It is amazing how much /.ers can say without even having read the article...
Its a goatse! Mod this troll DOWN!
Mirror here
so it can withstand the power of the /. effect.
I think he needs a beowulf cluster of these bubble mods and maybe his site wont get slashdotted so quick.
Its a goatse link! Moderate this troll down!
Gene: And by the way, I am dead, you know.
Siskell: I am too.
Have you ever considered just buying regular LED's and just hacking some sort of connector onto the cards? LED, some speaker wire, and maybe some aluminum foil & duct tape should work nicely.
The US Patent Office has granted Matt's a patent covering "Method and apparatus for sprucing up the front of your case a bit, when those lighted case badges don't seem like enough"
The link has posted above has nothing to do with the story posted above.
I have a B&W G3. When I want to add something, I pull the ring and swing the side down. Everything is open and easy to access. 2 seconds. A child could do it. And my G3 is over 3 years old.
I have yet to see a PC case out there that approaches the ease of access that Apple had 3 years ago. Am I just not up the market? I know that alot of manufacturers were adding colorful plastic sections to their cases. I've seen the neon additions and clear windows from the modders. Why hasn't even one manufacturer tried to make the case an easy thing to work with?
Thank you for not wasting bandwidth by equipping this smiley with a nose. FYI, a web page should be up within the next few days for the Denoser script, that automates the process of denosing smileys.
This little perl script has already been making the rounds in the hacker community, and there is a lot of excitement about it. Be sure to keep an eye on the Denoser project page, as activity is going to really pick up once the word gets out.
Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)
WTF don't we see some cases that go for function mods, rather than these ugly image mods? Something as nicely built as Apple's G4 towers, or as quiet and small as the cube of theirs. Most computers totally suck when it comes to easy of putting it together and taking it apart. Look at an SGI O2 as a hugely high standard when it comes to case design. You can take the thing apart and put it back together in under a minute.
Of course most of these are beyond the ability of a typical case modder, who is just out to make their ugly PC even uglier.
Oh well, a geek can dream, right?
I happened to be bored, so I grabbed all 6 pages and posted them here:
http://pages.simpli.biz/casemod
The "Next" and "Previous" links have been changed to point to my server, but everything else remains identical.
I am collecting browser statistics on this page. I'll post them in my journal within 24 hours. I'm donating my bandwidth because I'm really interested in what browsers Slashdot users use. If you don't want your statistics collected, don't click on the link.
Simpli - Your source for San Jose dedicated servers and colocation!
They are, they are totally useless and I wasn't going to do it.
..and I understood that sometimes I have to put away my higher education seeking prudishness and say "oh, pretty lights."
Then my girlfriend said "oh, cool."
A l33t c4s3 m0d would be to trick out your system with lots of armored cable and black shit so it looks like the Borg. Then you could run Windows on it and it would feel like home.
please sir, keep up your trolling ways.
not only do i think you are a magnificent troll, bur you also provided me with tonight's dinner plans.
bravo! this world is too evil for one as pure as thee!
I like this quote:
"But a biohazard sign is very universal, not so unique... I'd want something to represent me... so I found a piece of art made by snecx (http://excadark.dfected.net/ - great artist). With his permission I was permitted to use this image..."
Nothing quite as unique as using someone else's art to represent yourself.
yeah!. cool.
or sick as the kids used to say 3 days ago?
what do they say now? I know it's not off-the-hook, that got ruined by overuse on WildOn!
This is obviously a troll!!!
No one would ever use only a quarter cup of teaspoon cloves in an apples sauce pork chop recipe. How gullible do you think we are?
3 c All-purpose flour 1 ts Baking powder 1/2 ts Salt 3/4 c Margarine 1 1/2 c Sugar 2 Large eggs 1 tb Lemon peel; grated ---- filling --- 6 oz Dates; pitted 1/2 c Dried apricots; 6 ozs 1/2 c Apricot nectar 1/2 c Sugar 1/4 c Lemon juice 1 ts Lemon peel; grated 1/2 c Nuts; chopped 1. Sift flour with baking powder and salt. Set aside. 2. In large bowl, beat sugar, margarine, eggs, and lemon peel with electric mixer set on low to medium. Beat until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in flour mixture until well combined and smooth. Form a ball of the dough and wrap tightly. Refrigerate a few hours or overnight. 3. Make filling before continuing with cookie dough. In small saucepan combine chopped, dried apricots, apricot nectar, sugar and 1/2 cup water. Bring to a boil, turn to simmer, and cook, covered, for 15 minutes. Add chopped dates and cook 5 minutes longer, stirring often, watching carefully to see that the fruit doesn't dry out and stick. Mixture should be thick. Remove from heat and add the lemon peel, juice and chopped nuts. Use your choice of nuts; walnuts or pecans are good choices. Mix well and cool completely. 4. Divide dough into 4 parts and work with one part at a time, keeping rest refrigerated until ready to use. On lightly floured surface, roll dough to a 10 x 12 inch rectangle. Use a sharp knife dipped in flour to cut dough into 12 rectangles. Or use cookie cutter to cut dough into 12 pieces. 5. Use spatula to place cookies onto lightly greased cookie sheet. Spread 1 teaspoon filling on half of each piece; fold over and use floured fork to seal edges firmly. Prick tops in one or two places. Bake in preheated 375-degree oven for 10-12 minutes until lightly browned. Do not overcook. Continue with remaining dough, greasing cookie sheet each time.
Dear mr troll,
I appluad your fine sense of trolldition! But I feel that your troll could use a bit of polish. I tried to find a reference to the "controversy" about who the "real" "discoverer" of the "planet" "Pluto" was, but unfortunately, the first hit on google was this : Discovery of Uranus
As it seems that my worst paranoid fantasies about the internet becoming sentinent and malicious have been proven by google giving me the goatse, I have nothing more than to say -- "I have cornered the market on rice."
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Can I have some karma now?
No worries about this guy taking my job...
It looks like an interesting way to burn yourself. Seriously. The bubble looks kind of warped, and the hole he cut out cetainly looks home made, especially with the bubble on because they are not exactly the same size. He should have just taken a dell case that has a similar bubble already made that actually looks nice, and modify the bubble instead of making a half-assed crappy looking bubble himself
I like case mods, but to make it onto slashdot, i would expect it to be somewhat impressive, not a "why the hell did this make it to slashdot" kinda thing.
He's not related to Archduke Ferdinand, is he?
http://66.34.96.9/bubmod/bubmod.htm
I'll keep it up for a few hours.
yup. it sounded intriguing, but, uh, it's just tacky.
Shrinky Dinks (hot gelatinous plastic crap cut into amusing shapes that burns like nothing else and shrinks eventually into a smaller version of the former amusing shape. I would search the US patent database for a link that everyone could go slashdot but I'm lazy... DIY
I agree. There are so many brilliant case mods out there that this really does look like rubbish. It must have been a "slow news day" on /. today otherwise I doubt this would have rated a mention.
Now if he had of made an entirely spherical case out of plexi it would have been worth looking at, but as it stands, its WAY below average.
HAIKU:
Case mods on slashdot
Blinkenlights, doodads, plexi:
Does anyone care?
LIMERICK:
There once was some plexiglass from Ace
that was decked out with white frilly lace
tossed a mobo in there
and athlons, a pair
and when finished we'll call it a case!
DOUBLE DACTYL:
Bubbly Bobbly
Slashdotter Sandv!per
"Gee this is ugly"
lamented the klutz
"Uber-Case Moddery,
surely impressed me, but...
pseudo-geometry
is driving me nuts!"
SONNET:
To be continued.
http://66.34.96.9/bubmod/bubmod.htm
I'll keep it up for a few hours.
"credit to Davzing for his l337 modeling tekniq"
Wow, when you mirror you do it well. *hug*
thats douche you're thinking of, you douche bag!
i have about 7 slashdot accounts that post at +2, how do you do the page widening post? i'll do it on all 7 on 7 stories or more.
I usually don't mind the inane case mods, but this has to be the ugliest, dumbest thing I've ever seen. That's 250 k of bandwidth I'll never get back.
That since the webadmin hisself submitted this (booo) he'd have his server issues yoked out. Apparently he was more interested in how the case -looked- than how it ran?
No match for the genuine Marshall Plexi!
i cant believe it! a machine more l33t looking than mine!
;)
MUST GET BUBBLE WINDOW, DO SOME CUTOUTS AND GET MULTICOLORED LIGHTING!
(i thought a blue LED, a few backlit lcd screens and a nice paint job would be sufficient!)
time to bust out some tools and get to work!
Is it just me? or is half the fun of having a pimp machine making it that way?
p r m t h s
This article is useless. The mod doesn't look good when finished and is a really silly way to accomplish the objective they had (which was trivial in any case).
Why are you reading this anyway?
:)
before I ever even posted my first beowulf comment. But there it sits as the parent of your post.
who is the fool, the fool or the one who follows him...
Hi. I wrote the article, thanks for your input. I refuse to buy dell cases because they're made specifically for DELL OEM motherboards afaik. I am no professional - this is only meant as a how-to. If you would like to try to do this better, please do.
--NovaScorpio
Matt
How exactly is someone who is imitating cmdr taco 'informative'? or worthy of a +4.
I can understand replying to an imitator, but moding one up as anything (except funny) is just plain insane, and most of the time they don't even qualify as funny. Ah well...
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
For buying:
Hosfelt
For info
Don's light site
LED museum
this is the gayest site i've ever seen. who gives them selves a fuckin symbol and alias??? that's so fuckin gay. you all suck and i'm drunk bye
Slow news day. Rumors (not news) about James Doohan, and now this. ...
Anyway, have you seen some of the other "articles" on that site? "How to clean your mouse"
Give me a break.
If bad puns were like deli meat, this would be the wurst
I found a lot more usefull mod on this site :
http://www.zerofanzone.co.uk/
Everything is water cooled, from the PSU to the HDD !
It is more interesting that this crappy bubble mod !
use a heat gun, easier, cleaner less hazard, and if your a freak for beauty like i am, if you set your temps right you can keep your plexiglass 100% unblemished and distoreded, nice and perfect consistancy, i have done this with plexiglass more than once when makeing a custom fan ducting while guarenteeing 100% freash outside air to meet the cpu fins and then exhausted directly out of the case, also works well if you make some sort of preconfigured molding for the part to rest against , an aluminum section cut with enough space for a drop will give you a nice clean drop and half circle configuration
yeah
His site is working fine, so I'm removing my mirror.
Mirroring it took about 3gb of bandwidth in the last day.
The access log for the last day is about 23mb.
Actually, my post was factual, expressed a real opinion and, perhaps, a differing view on the topic. It was not in any way a troll, flamebait or off-topic.
As for the nick, what is it they say about "the most sincere form of flattery"?
In fact, having reached the karma cap with only 94 posts under another name, I decided to try again, this time with a self-imposed, specific (presumed) handicap. I do not intend to troll under this nom de plume, but I eagerly anticipate reactions, such as yours, which are targeted not at the content of my posts, but at the nickname alone.
All things in moderation.