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."

Comments

Redundant

[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.

Now all my system needs...

[DarkHand]

is an old CD-ROM converted into a cupholder, and a peltier-based beverage cooler. Swank!

Is it like TIMEX?

[whiteranger99x]

Does the PC "Take a licking and keeps on ticking?" ;)

Just Announced..

[raiyu]

The new indiglo clock server mod, counts the number of seconds between being slashdotted and the server dieing! Reverse your kit today! ^_^

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

[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...

Wait a minute... I saw this on H*R!

[Xaroth]

"So, Bubs... how's it coming?"
"Oh, hey Strong Bad. I think I'm almost finished. It took me a little while to figure out what I was gonna do. Then I duct taped an alarm clock to your VCR!"
"Duct taped an alarm clock to the VCR. See, I never woulda thought of that. Ok, there's some hairs that are seemed to be stuck in the duct tape here. Was that on purpose?"
"Oh. No. That's just left over from my first idea, which was to duct tape The Cheat to your VCR. He wasn't into that."
"Oh, I coulda told you that, man. Well anyways, thanks for your help, Bubs... and thank you, Cory Dewey-Smith. Sooo... join us next week when we'll be duct taping clocks to all kinds of different stuff."

(courtesy of Strong Bad's Email)

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.

What time is it?

[comet_11]

Well, no need for a clock/pc any longer, we all know what time it is! It's slashdotting time!

Google cache can be found: here

[S]lashdot_ORG

[Konster]

I'm not into case modifications, but I can appreciate some of the more inventive work people have done in this area. I'm not certain that this belongs on Slashdot, per se, but it doesn't really do any harm to post something that might lead to discussion, and might lead me to finding out something neat, whether in the story or in the postings.

Just so long as I don't start seeing [S]lashdot, I'll be happy.

No offense meant to Kyle and [H]ard_OCP. =D

Slashdot needs a separate computers MOD topic

[forged]

Did we mention that Slashdot needs to create a computers MOD section ? This would be attractive to many, i.e. even to you since you could disable this topic in your preferences if you didn't like it.

Such topic would also make grouping mods together very easy, in order to come back to them later for example at the time you need the most (inspiration, inspiration...;)

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?

Terminology

[Logopop]

It's not called 'Indiglo (tm)'. The technical term is 'high voltage fluorescence'. 'Indiglo (tm)' is something Timex (I think) called it when they started using it for wrist watches and the like. Bugs me as much as hearing the term 'S-VHS' when people refer to the video format 'S-VIDEO' (separated chrominance/luminance).
Important? Hardly. Important to me? Oh, yes!