Indiglo Clock Case Mod

WEEEEEEE writes "Just saw over at GideonTech where they just put up a new Indiglo clock mod for a computer case. With avid LAN party go'ers around here, seems like a easy to do mod to keep track of time while you're fraggin' away. More on it over the HOWTO area."

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[lexcyber]

This feels like there is like one casemod story to many. - Ok, we get it. You can drill holes, put lights, glasses - etc. etc. in your cases. - HotRod Cars has been around for ages, nothing really new about em.

Only thing that happens is that /. will kill yet another cablemodem or overtraffic som poor bastards co-loc account.

A good question to ask with casemods is...

[venomkid]

...does it make the computer a better *computer*?

If it doesn't, i'm afraid i'm not that interested.

Re:A good question to ask with casemods is...

[68K]

You may not be interested in a mod that doesn't improve the computer's performance, but surely you can see why people do this kind of thing? To make their box look cooler and more interesting than the standard beige box. I know every kid and his dog has a window and cold cathode lighting in their machine these days, but these people (myself included) are no 'worse' than people who decorate their cars with fluffy dice, bodykits, etc. They don't improve how the car runs, but (when properly done) can sure make it look better.

I'm windowing/lighting one of my old PC's 'cos it's going to be a backup machine/MP3 player in my living room, and when I'm done with it it'll definitely look better than a beige box in the corner of the room. Also, it gives me something to do 'cos I'm bored out of my mind at home. :-)

Cheers,
68K.

Slashdot is just dying

[SexyKellyOsbourne]

With all these casemod stories, Slashdot is just trying to get a foothold in the nu-geek community -- the kind who was raised by Windows, is addicted helplessly to online gaming, always wears Slipknot t-shirts, always believes all the hardware and game hype that every crap hardware/gaming site out there says, and doesn't even know jack shit about coding, *nix, or computer science as they only care about spurious issues like ATI vs. Nvidia -- but they try to pass themselves off as a Linux hackers and anti-Microsoft rebels, and somehow gravitate towards slashdot after they run Linux for a week and give up on it.

Every single one of you knows who I'm talking about -- mostly college freshmen and high-schoolers who are nothing more than console gamers with top-of-the-line PC equipment that is only used as a forum posting, warez-downloading, gaming machine and not for anything remotely constructive or interesting.

They're the kind of people that glittery casemods attract, and they're the exact people slashdot should NOT cater to, as they're alienating their core audience. Slashdot should run less stories about casemods and more about phsyics breakthroughs, Linux standards, Microsoft's crimes, what's going on in Congress.

Re:Slashdot is just dying

[Clay Pigeon -TPF-VS-]

Not everyone that likes keeping up on tech news has to be a programmer or run nothing but *nix.

Re:Slashdot is just dying

[HerbieStone]

AH, the good old times

You know, my coworker knows a lot about the good old times. They used those brand new Mainfraims. Everything just worked. But nowadays everyone uses those strange PC's. Nothing works anymore. He wishes everthing was like in the old days.

I can understand, that people liked how it used to be. But time is allways moveing forward. Plus, people tend to forget bad stuff faster than the good things. This makes for a skewed memory of past things. That's why I'm a little skeptical about the good-old-time stories.

Re:Slashdot is just dying

[Erik Hollensbe]

Isn't there room for both?

Myself, I have a couple of linux machines for development and a windows machine for gaming. I enjoy both aspects of the spectrum.

Personally, why do you guys keep posting this drivel instead of not frequenting the site?

They're the kind of people that glittery casemods attract, and they're the exact people slashdot should NOT cater to, as they're alienating their core audience.

Exactly what is the core audience here? Do you work for OSDN marketing? Would you like to present some figures? I thought so.

Slashdot is FUN. I don't consider it fun in the sense of learning new API's or algorithms, but fun in the 'leisure' sense.

One of these days people are going to realize, that the bigger a publication gets, no matter WHAT field(s) it covers, the less specialized it is going to be.

And if you weren't bitching, it'd be the other half of the /. populace, the casemodding windows gamers who like to look at porn and flash animations all day. Think about it for a second.

Re:Slashdot is just dying

[Cloud 9]

They're the kind of people that glittery casemods attract, and they're the exact people slashdot should NOT cater to, as they're alienating their core audience.

And you think you're part of that core audience? You have a SID well past the half-million mark, which means, unless your account is a dupe, you haven't been here very long at all. I happen to be one of those "nu-geeks", who also happens to have been a member since '98.

Perhaps the core audience (re: key demographic) is somebody who reads the page, clicks the links, and buys the merchandise! Who better than those college freshmen/high school seniors with all that glorious disposable income.

If you think there's any such thing as a single community here, you're sadly mistaken. There hasn't been a single community since I started reading /. There are, instead, many communities, which /. happily caters to by posting stories that might interest people in those communities.

And who's to say the people who know more than "jack shit" don't happen to like casemodding and hardware news as much as your "nu-geeks"? Not everybody is as willing to pigeonhole themselves as you apparently are.

(OT) Finally, I'd just like to mention that I'm getting slightly sick of all the elitest snobbery amongst the "Linux Gurus" around here. I have 5 machines, all well used, running Windows, Linux, Freebsd, and (gasp) OS 9. That doesn't make my penis any larger, that doesn't make me live any longer, and that doesn't make me want to prance around like some kind of lord.

You talk about the people installing linux and using it for a week as if it's supposed to be a bad thing. At least they're trying something new. Maybe they'll try it again, maybe not. I do know this, though. If I'd seen people acting as piggish as the *nix elite around here, and hadn't had the support of the few people willing to help me surmount the ridiculously steep learning curve, I probably would have deleted it too.

A Possibility

[whiteranger99x]

Actually, as simplistic as this hack appears to be, I wonder if there might be some way a similar clock could interface more directly with the computer (maybe USB or serial interface or something).

I would imagine it could have some bells in whistles, like synchronizing the clock to a time server, forecast the weather, or something else to that effect...

epoxy + clock

[g4dget]

I don't get it. If you really, really need this, why not just epoxy a clock to the case?

Re:epoxy + clock

[doowy]

I don't get it. If you really, really need this, why not just epoxy a clock to the case?

That's essentially all he did. It still needs to be plugged into an independant power source (he just snaked the alarm clocks wire out the back of the case). How this is news, I do not know.

On second thought, he did manage to cut a hole in a piece of plastic - I suppose that does deserve some attention. pfft.

This isn't even a good mod

[DaCool42]

The circuit board for the clock is not mounted in any way. The power is coming in on a seperate AC line. Even if this was a good idea, it was done very poorly. And wouldn't it be much better to put in an LCD and use lcdproc instead?

What a hack!!!!!

[Anonym1ty]

What a hack... it looks like he hacked it with an axe.

C'mon... if you are going to drill a hole clean through the power supply, can't you just solder the power plug to the back of the 120v jack? -it would be safer.

What about that printed circuit board shoved into a conductive metal box... that board has 120v AC in it too! FIRE FIRE FIRE

This hack job is unsafe and should not be recommended to anyone.

PLUS IT'S UGLY!