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Project Plex-Box
Greasy Spoon writes "Behold! The most ultimate XBox in the whole world. After growing tired with the dull black appearence of this guy's XBox (even with the green lighting skin added) he decided to spruce it up a bit."
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It's an XBox in a plastic case. Somehow that just doesn't excite me much.
"My XBox is naked!!!...
but it doesn't light up, and that's a problem for me..."
The God of Hubris sits in amazement as he wonders what is so great about a plastic to plexiglass with lights conversion. He then realizes how easily the title of 'God of modding' is and is content with hubris.
I like the key-lock concept, great way to prenvent your children from playing when you don't want them to be playing.
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While I applaud your for your efforts, isnt this thing a little big? I mean it looks like it has twice the volume of the other case.
I would be more impressed if you took some of the original shape or something so you could look at it and still recognize it as an XBOX.
complaining aside, good work with the plexi, I would have a mishapen mess and nothing but scratches and abrasions
Boredom's not a burden anyone should bear.
The most ultimate slashdotting in the whole world!
Romana: "How did you know?" Doctor Who: "Ah, well, knowing is easy. Everyone does THAT ad nauseum. I just sort of hope"
I guess this voids his waranty then :)
does it cook a turkey in under 3 1/2 hours?
I'm not sure how this sits with me.
My $.02
Ohh the HUMANITY!
GPLv2: I want my rights, I want my phone call! DRM: What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak?
here.
I don't understand though, most people case mod to make things smaller/nicer.
He managed to take an already huge XBox and turn it into something even bigger.
Why not just put a normal PC inside that case then? Heh.
he decided to spruce it up a bit
That's nothing. Check out this spruced-up case mod.
Here is your fish, all you need is X-Box Linux and you are set.
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TODO: Something witty here...
I'd think god would have steadier hands with a dremel tool....
My XBox DVD Rom drive is broken.
<MS> Ok, no problem sir, we can replace it - is your warranty still valid?
<owner> Well, it's in date...
<MS> Have you done anything like adding a new hard disk sir?
<owner> Errr, no... not as such... just some small comsmetic changes in fact.
<MS> Stickers? Those are covered.
<owner> Not exactly.
<MS> Paint? I think we can live with that.
<owner> Well, I sort of ripped it apart and made a new case for it.
<MS> ?!
<owner> Which glows. But thats not why it's broken! I never went near the DVD with the hammer when I was taking the case apart.
<MS> !!
<owner> Hey, when you take it back for repair, you will be careful not to scratch the pexi glass right? Or break the soldering on the new LEDs.
<click - call terminated>
Beep beep.
I saw this guy and this exact plexbox on ebay yesterday. I just looked as I was going to post the url but it seems to have vanished? It wasn't selling for much more than the normal $179. I have a feeling ebay performed a dmcation on it since it was modified from it's original state??
I sold a jason costume on Ebay after halloween and ebay and Warner Bros/Bitches I was infringing on their copyright? I told them to fuck off since I was selling a costume I bought from a company that was manufacturing it. All this dmca/drm shit is getting beyond ridiculous...
You aren't free to do anything, until you've lost everything.
It needs a few more blinking lights and a pedantic voice, but it could be done!
Ahh, I see. The most ultimate. As opposed to the less ultimate ones, such as the moderately ultimate and least ultimate.
talk about the penultimate x-box.
(heh also note the way the submitter just copied the webpage text and changed a few personal pronouns. i am in awe of such laziness.)
Karma: T-rexcellent.
To quote the late great Bill Hicks:
"Quick Capsule Review: 'Piece Of Shiiit!'"
Seriously. It's fucken ugly. There's a reason more manufacturers out there aren't investigating clear perspex. Computer insides are not aesthetically pleasing.
So the next time you're thinking about modding your boxen stop and say to yourself: "Can I do better than simply dumping my computer's insides into a fish tank?"... The answer, if you're wondering, is a resounding yes.
1) Build ugly ridiculous looking xbox mod, because I can ...
2)
3) Make ludicrous amounts of money
Is step 2 slashdot+eBay?
Is it just me or are all case mods the same these days? Add plexiglass, lights, leds, maybe vaguely interesting feature (X2 logo).
Does anyone else remember when case modding used to be cool? Where are the stylish custom stickers? (some nice ones on penny-arcade a while ago) The lego man stuck in cryo in the optical mouse? (too lazy to go find this link too)
Why isn't anyone pulling apart their CD/DVD tray and making that out of plexiglass?
In summary, novel and innovative=cool, gratuitous use of plexiglass and lights=lame. (Soz for all the whining).
This is to notify you that you are in violation of the DMCA. All MS hardware includes proprietary encrypted screws and advanced adhesive patented security technology to protect our IP. By removing these technological protections, and exposing the underlying technology, you have violated more IP rights than you can possible imagine. You are a terrorist. The FBI will soon be at your house to throw you in a dark deep dungeon.
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
The lights work that's all that matters, he had to disconect the hard drive, it sunk too much power, made the lights dim.
Lissen up folks, just because someone does a really good job cutting plexi and mounting stuff to it doesn't make it a good case mod. It's a box. My dead granny can make something more imaginitve than this.
Clearly (based on the pics) he does not own a TV, leaving the xbox itself as the only form of physical entertainment.
The black box must have been as boring as hell.
I'm really surprised that more manufacturers haven't jumped on selling replacement transparent and/or coloured cases made to otherwise look like the originals for the most recent wave of consoles.
It's easy to find them for the PS1 and Dreamcast, so why not the current ones?
This is the kind of thing I'm talking about.
"...always new atoms but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday." -Richard Feynman
is a spoiler.
Rice-Box(tm)
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http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?s=070631998 8c808fc1d56e5019740786f&act=ST&f=24&t=71196&hl =
And we call it X-CRATE
"Hey guys, I have a swell idea! Let's take an already huge and clumsy game console, and make it even LARGER! In fact, let's make it 3 TIMES LARGER!
While we are at it, we can increase its already HORRENDOUS power consumption by ADDING MORE LIGHTS!
This will get us on slashdot for sure!"
Seriously though, most case mods are cool, but this is retarded. Not only does it look like ass but the form factor is now so huge you could'nt even keep it in your entertainment centre. Plus I bet it is significantly noiser now that it isn't in its native housing.
The XBox is already a huge ugly console before doing this.
A shot from a slightly different angle. I am the God of modding, now if only god had a better camera...
... and as God read this most blasphemous of phrases he struck out at the web server with a flood of hits, each wave more powerful than the last. All that could be saved were two zeroes and two ones.
Most ultimate is more bester than just plain ultimate.
Good God... After reading your comment, I thought I would search e-bay for "xbox mod" and holy shit... Here it is:
There have been tons of much better XBox mods. Not only is this one completely unimpressive, it's even butt-ass fugly. It would have been better if MjO's "xXx" mod was posted here.
Y2K Compliant since the late 1890s
This one time me and my buddies set fire to this old shed and it burnt to the ground and it was like the most ultimate shed mod and then this other time we had a whole case of beer and we drank every can and it was the most ultimate case of beer mod and then this other time I got hit by a bus and killed and I never modded anything again. Fuck.
Now wash your hands.
Look in amazment of my leet modding skillz.
Ph33r also my mind-numbingly shocking command of English, and my consistently retarded inability to put semicolons on the end of my entities! Cower in awe of the fact that I obviously did not even LOOK at the web page after I created it! I am so l33t.
This sig is part of your complete breakfast.
It looks like someone put my asian neighbor's civic on blocks, took everything that wasn't riveted, then took apart the inside of an XBox, put all of that into a garbage compacter, then barfed into the ebay submission form.
Since I can't read the site, I'm going to have to assume that version of the events leading to this moment of Slashdot disgrace. It's entirely plausible.
Fuck Beta. Fuck Dice
Until he gets the bandwidth bill, he made 70$...
IMO, it looks worse than before he started. BTW, "God" needs to learn to use a spellchecker before he posts a page on the internet.
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.
It's whopping huge!
Yay me!
1)Bigger box of plexiglass does not in fact make the Xbox any less of an unholy demonic powered eyesore.
2)Green lights do not make for less power drain.
3)A better word for "most ultimate" would be...ultimate
4)And one of my own...I was surprised at first that it wasn's /.-ed...and then I looked at the page and realized why. Any momentary frying of the server would have resulted from the multitudes of viewers getting to the page and simultaneously trying to back out. Like a drunk frat boy who has a sudden moment of sobriety and notices that the girl he thought was teh h077n355 really might not be all that attractive after all...
#define CLUE 0
"Behold! The most ultimate XBox in the whole world..."
If by ultimate you mean large and cumbersome, then yes: you have a valid arguement.
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Wow! That really is the ugliest thing I've ever seen! Thanks, Slashdot, for bringing this piece of crap to our attention. Now hundreds of 1337 g4m0rz who have modded their PCs with... well the same tubes and LEDs and plexy crap, really... can feel better about their 'Tandy 30-in-One' lookalike craptastic boxes! They have truly acheived 1960s electronic chic.
Now, if we could find something to make all those airfoiled, spoilered,prismatic,fiberglass Civic, Prelude and Supra mods look like more than some 6 year old's first attempt at a Revell Mustang kit. They need love too.
Yours truly,
The Bitch
- I am made of meat.
He managed to make the biggest, bulkiest and ugliest games console on the planet even bigger, bulkier and uglier.
I guess thats why he's a god of modding.