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The "Spider Case"
Kadagan AU submitted linkage to one of the more impressive case mods I've seen in awhil, The Spidercase. It's not really an option if you don't have much desk space to spare, but it sure is cool.
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The guy who made this case will get laid exactly once in his life -- into his coffin.
kitty cat.
Since the site is already very slow for images, I cached the large version of the final image here. Enjoy!
Why do I h8 apple?
A couple pictures are over at [H]ardocp
Lights on
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I have this one user who destroys a computer everytime he walks within 10 feet of it. He also hates spiders....maybe I can keep him away from the computers if they all look like that.
The flying hamster of DOOM rains coconuts on your pitiful city.
Its great for debugging!
Techtv Just had a case mod contest. This article is about a mod that was too heavy to qualify for the contest, at the bottom of the page under "related stories" are links to the 4 contest finalists. Some pretty unbelievable cases IMHO.
--Kobayashi--
"You spent all this money building a mod like this, and you didn't even install a web browser?"
I remembered seeing this a couple of days ago on HardOCP's boards. I mirrored the thread about it (as /.'ing a bboard is not too nice) which has quite a few pictures and some talk:
http://andrew.cmu.edu/~pnelson/big.html
(and yes, I did just download the 4 individual pages and cat them together =P)
Making art out of a computer is all well and good, but this case is uninteresting for anything other than artistic reasons. He had to sacrifice quite a bit of performance and flexibility to get this the shape he wanted.
;-)
What's more it's not very workable footprint wise.
As far as I'm concerned the ultimate case-mod would be getting a sufficiently cooled, shoebox-sized system that had room for at least 1 AGP and 3 PCI cards. Then I'd be happy. If you want to paint flames on the side, more power to you, but I don't care what color my GHz are, I just want a lot of 'em
When you say "some people have too much time on their hands", are you talking about the guy that made the case mod, or the guy that spent 10 minutes waiting for pictures of a case mod? ;)
ya i dont know why this mini-itx case was chosen. sure it looks great, but it doesnt represent mini-itx's.
My personal favorite is still the nintendo mini itx computer, running a nintendo emulator to play mario 3.
And no, I will not provide a link to the mini-itx page which is about 100 feet under.
[I can picture a world without war, without hate. I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it]
Isn't a case mod supposed to be a new, creative way of arranging a computer? With the lights out, the arms look like connections for stuff lying out. How cool would it be to plug in harddrivers or cdburners in those arms?
I was really disappointed to find out they were just plastic arms. There's no new concept there, just cool-ish design. I'll stay with the computer in a several stories bookcase in the movie "Pi". Its waay cooler as a concept, primitive as it is.
If he plugs the upper middle hole, it should look more like the 'spider' has two eye groups. Like this (GIMP edited image).
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The red lights on the front count 7. A spider has eight eyes. I'd have thought he could have managed to get that right
I think the "case shaped like x" or "case made of y" are always neat, but what I'd really like to see is some custom hardware -- a multi-chip multi-board PC, or something like that. You used to see more people experimenting with the hardware. Still, if anyone can build a working computer that runs in a bucket full of cooked oatmeal (preferably Quaker instant brown sugar oatmeal), that would be sweet. Computers submerged in stuff are always cool.
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The Imperiator Star Destroyer computer case:
http://www.overclockers.com.au/~bluesmurf/
Spidercase, Spidercase
It's proactive and in your face
Crawls the web, really quick
It kinda looks like a bloated tick
Look out, here comes the Spidercase.
DecafJedi
my weblog: apropos of something
Mods on crack, apparently. These pics aren't offtopic, but here's a proper link: Case Pics
the blood has stopped pumping, and he's left to decay
the me that you know is now made up of wires
The itsy-bitsy spider
Crawled up the network pipe.
Down came Slashdot
And made the spider yipe.
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
* Boots up to 'SpiderMan, SpiderMan, Does Whatever A Spider Can'
* Warns user, 'With great power comes great responsibility'
* Comes with only with 56k Dialup
* Can detect virii, worms, and other malware very well, but constantly blamed by media for whatever virus-du-jour
* Can only log in as Anonymous Coward to protect anonymity
Mod Karma -1: I sed bad wurds. If I cep my mouf shut, I wud be at riyses.
...if you hang it from the ceiling, or stick it on a wall.
Seriously, who the hell would put a case like this on their desk? It's room art, there's a certain compromise of normal function required by abnormal form.
...ping shelob and survive?
Reminds me of a picture I once saw of an engineer for the space program in the 1960's. It was captioned something like "the schedule was so tight the engineers were working on the hardware in the machine shop". It showed him standing over a milling machine, hands on the controls, full eye protection, with his tie hanging down into the work area. I figure it had to be either a posed picture with a guy who never actually used the milling machine, or maybe it was done on purpose as an inside joke. Since then I've tried several times to goad engineers into using my milling machine while wearing a tie, but so far they've all balked...
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
As someone who has a decent amount of woodworking experience, I can say DO NOT follow this guys advice of wearing gloves when working with table saws, routers, etc. If the glove gets caught in a machine (and proceeds to pull your hand in) you are going to be in a whole lot more pain than a little one stitch nick with a table saw.
#1 Rule: Always were safety glasses
#2 Rule: NEVER wear things that can get caught in the machine, neck ties, necklaces, GLOVES. Some people even take off thier wedding rings.
I Do C++
Spider case, spider case
Way more geeky than "All Your Base".
Tell the web? Not too wise!
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Look out! Mirror the spider case.
I stuck my middle fingertip into a table saw and found out first hand why people wear gloves.
Wearing gloves while operating power equipment is dangerous and will not keep you from getting your fingers chopped off. If you are dealing with powertools like table saws or band saws, there is a good chance you will lose a digit or two. It's almost inevitable. You will learn to deal with it. If you want to lose more digits or your whole hand, wear gloves like the article suggests, and long sleeves while your're at it. Might as well get your whole arm sucked in.
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