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Borg Cube Case
Steelduck writes "A person nick-named Xor'Arch at the CaseJunkies forums has made an uber-cool case mod. A Borg cube based on a Via EPIA-M platform. The project took them 9 months, in which they spent 250 hours of their spare time. In total, they used about 60 meters of steel wire, and 1,5 m2 cardboard.The Borg Cube is presented at Casejunkies website.
http://www.casejunkies.com/index.php?upn=010001&hl _id=1873"
Just in case the site goes down..... http://biggestpos.com/pics/gallery/borgcase/
What, me worry?
your net connection will be assimilated at 933Mhz!
Candle burns its brightest in the dark
Resistance is futile
All your case are belong to us... ;)
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60 meters of wire!? That's insane! It's gotta weigh a ton.. At least enough to assimilate someone if you hit them over the head with it.
Normally, I don't case squat for these case mods, nor do I get too excited about Star Trek, but this time I've gotta hand it to them... that is a work of art!
Not that anyone cares, though.
Gonzo Granzeau
"Nothing the god of biomechanics wouldn't let you into heaven for.." -Roy Batty
Perfect for Microsoft Windows inside!
uhm.. where's the keyboard/video/etc ports located on? it doesn't show in any of the pics.
That is definately a high-ranking geek item. Can't say I've ever heard of it before, looks like they've done a good job of it.
::starts design plans::
Now only if I could hook up a Transwarp conduit for an Internet connection....
# fuser -v
#
Soon, they will assimilate every computer that loads the slashdot index or RDF and infect them with nanosoft windows so they can cooperate to rule the universe.
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Should I be worried?
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
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I wish I knew it was mini-itx day at slashdot today... I would have warn my "Epia VIA motherboard users do it in smaller places" button.
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I wish I had 250 hours to spend making the coolest Star Trek nerd case in the world. I would go on a trip somewhere nice or read a friggen book.
- Kill Yourself, spare us all! -
Captain Picard defeated the Borg the hard way. I mean all he had to do was pull the plug!
Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
""
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNN!!!
So what's the maximum warp on this sucker? Does it fly around the room and assimilate other systems that are nearby? I'd be a little skittish about leaving it plugged into the network...
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prepare your p0rn collection for assimilation.
Candle burns its brightest in the dark
Some moderator must of not clicked the link, and since they area slashbot they automagically modded it down, or they need a sense of humor!
you got your star* movies mixed up there kiddo.
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Now imagine a beowulf cluster of those.
This sig no verb.
- flossed your teeth 3,000 times. ...but see Legolas kill the Olephant only 74.6 times
- Seen 166 movies (at 90 minutes each)
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- driven from NY,NY to LA 5 times
- listened to 1/35064 of "Longplayer"
- watched 500 episodes of the simpsons, ~750 if you skipped the commercials.
- earned $1287.50 flipping burgers for minimum wage
It's pretty obvious that this borg mod case system should run only Windows as the OS.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
To seek out new life, and new civilizations, and to boldy go where noone has gone before.
if so, its a very suiting design ;)
We Are The Borg. Lower your firewall and surrender your data. We will add your bios and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us... under the GPL of course.
Resistance is futile.
Are you Corn Fed?
wrong series - why do people get them confused?
Does it run Windows?
*beep* All your data has been assimilated.
That was hideous.
so did noone boldy go where no one went before, or did he/she/it follow someone else?
Sites are falling like flies nowadays.
Which is about transwarp, or the speed of subspace signals, of course.
Is an acidental DoS attack waiting to happen
Saying Apple is better than MS is like saying Botulism is better than rabies.
Well the site is down and has been slashdotted so I wish them good luck in paying their bandwidth bills.
On another note, one would think that this would just like the real thing, save for the absense of those wacky 80s designed suits worn...
--Shut up and get a mac--
Does it fly around the room and assimilate other systems that are nearby?
only if it runs Windows....
of course, that would make the Slashdot Bill Gates logo too appropriate.
There was just a post about the Xbox 2 a while back, talk about Borg Cube! Oh wait..
- 4r0g
Can you get this with the optional Temporal Vortex technology? You know, for restoring your system when you do an accidental rm -rf *?
"What luck for the rulers that men do not think." Adolf Hitler
Looks a bit like my old Mazda when I got it back from the car pound...
And if you add in books, movies, and computer games... Going through it all would easily take 250 hours.
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shows that the people who built it spent alot of time and effort. I hope they can get a job designing cases.
Some software money can't buy. For everything else there's Micros~1
hi. I'm Troy McClure. You might remember me from such case-modding how-to videos as "Constructing the Inflatable Woman PC: The Best of Both Nerd Worlds" and "It's Only 60 MHZ but it Looks like 3 GHZ"
I'd be worried if someone made a Dawsons Creek Trapper Keeper mod :-)
Here's a link for you non South Park people.
Are you local? There's nothing for you here!
"Sweat side"? That doesn't sound too pleasant!
All he had to do is post a story on slashdot about it. Apparently, even a Borg cube cannot survive a good slashdotting!
Oops... wrong parent... it's futile
Hey, why not put all the wire to work for your heat disipation? It may actually decrease your cpu temp.
I wonder how long it takes to find the "On" button?
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... image a bewolf cluster of these ?
Ok, who reversed the phase polarity of the tachyon field on the main deflector dish and disabled the cube?
I browse Slashdot at +3, Funny
who modded this as a troll?!
it's a bit funny...
Great! We've only just gotten through bringing the iPod story's server to its knees, and now we've trashed this site as well.
I just knew when I read the word, "Borg," that this would be the case. We geeks are too predictable.
All we need now is a "Natalie Portman enrolls in the CS department at Harvard" story, and the whole east coast will go black once again!
quiquid id est, timeo puellas et oscula dantes.
Don't put anything cool on the internet unless the old pipes are wide enough to handle a few thousand curious onlookers (/. effect)
/. effect -- and say keep bringin it boys.
Note to others: Upgrade the pipes and hardware. If you are paying $5.99 a year to your provider or hosting your cool stuff on your cable modem.
Anybody have any idea what the basic "sweet spot" is to hardware/softwatre/bandwidth needs in order to laugh back at the
Also -- I know this is off-subject, however since I can't seem to get to the actual content, I figured it was no big deal to venture off the path.
(+1 Funny) only if I laugh out loud.
"there would be enough heat generated to cause Noah to build another ark"
Which Bible was that? The one where Noah had to build an asbestos ark because the Lord was going to burn the earth off?
I want one!
Hopefully less than 200$ though...
Think about it, if he was able to use this case as the master, he could make tons of 'em without much additional effort... Maybe the fab costs would be high, but I bet he could pitch something this cool with such an intrinsic following to a corporate exec!
Well, this probably displays my ignorance of manufacturing... I have no idea if such an idea would be feasible. It looks like he put so much detail on the sides of the case, that it would be pretty hard to do that in a manufacturing process... I don't know though, anyone else familiar with this?
The case looks really sweet..
But I don't understand spending all that time and attention to a really cool case, just to put a gutless MiniITX board in it..
I mean, for the space, you could easily put even a lower-end athlon or P4, 2 ghz or so.. They don't get unreasonably hot, and are easy enough to cool..
I just picture showing off my really cool case, and then my audience looking at the screen and seeing the latest Star Trek game at 640x480 running at about 2 fps..
It's kind of like spending a year making a totally sweet hot rod chassis, then sticking the engine from a pontiac firefly in it.
I just dont get it.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
I can't see the power cable
Which will be a higher cost: the case itself, or the bandwidth necessary to withstand the slashdotting?
A cube is a fairly inefficient shape, it wastes volume. Why wasnt it a borg sphere?
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
they don't. they do it to piss you off.
Does anyone remember the original Borg cube computer case? I always wanted to pick up a Rock City system from the Panda Project.
Back in '98, they had systems w/ the coolest cases and AMD processors for just over a grand.
Check out an image, and a contemporary review.
With sincere apologies --
1) Web Server of Borg, prepare to be assimilated
2) Borg Cube? After a slashdotting, it's a Bork Cube
3) Hmmm, might as well be a gamecube now.
4) If a Borg Cube server runs WebSphere, what is the volume of the resulting geometry?
5) Ice Cube and Dre are suing for copyright infringements.
6) If it runs linux, will the admin be known as Cube Root?
Any experts on jizzology here on Slashdot?
When you take the lid off to add/remove hardware, do you have to wear a funny eyepiece or lycra?
hehe /. overload ;)
Mountain Dew is irrelevant. Your bandwidth will be assimilated.
I know,,. OT and Redundant, but I had to. Sorry.
Why do I have this? I don't smoke.
"""We are borg, you will be assimilated, resistance i....."""
at Wolf 359 they lost many ships, when in reality all the had to do is utilize the slashdot factor
with Borg's lines. "We are Borgs. We will assimilate you. Resistance is futile." as Windows' startup wave file. :)
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For a real EPIA cluster, check out this:
Let's see...
CPU: 4x8GHz
CPU Cache: 4x1GB
CPU-CPU bandwidth: 1 Tbps
CPU-DRAM bandwidth: 256 Gbps
DRAM: 64 GB
DRAM-HDD bandwidth: 64 Gbps
HDD: 200 TB
Network bandwidth: 4 Gbps
(Han Solo: "I dunno, I can *imagine* quite a lot.")
It's missing the Microsoft trademark....their gonna be really pissed off...
That might be impressive, but this is much more useful.
"The next generation of interesting software will be made on a Macintosh, not an IBM PC." -Bill Gates
...the Omega 13 from Galaxy Quest.
"A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy." --Theodore Roosevelt
Now we know what to do if the Borg were ever to arrive at Earth. Just open a channel, and slashdot it!
"Prepare to be assimilated. Resistance is fu......[bzzzt]"
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Was I the only one to think the first word said Bong???
Yes, but does it run Windows?
(I mean, it the borg we're talking about here...)
So I guess their Borg cube will now be renamed "five-oh-three".
We are Slashdot. *You* will be assimulated.
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An uncompleted Death Star Case! The intricacies of the uncompleted Death Star rivals that of a Borg cube. Even cooler would be a projector mounted inside the primary superlaser enplacement!
But even better, if he had run tubing all around the case, he could water cool it. The outer surface would make a great radiator even without a fan. Nice and silent.
There is nothing so silly as other peoples traditions, and nothing so sacred as our own.
That's a true bit of artistry. Kudos. As for a waste of time, what constructive thing have those stating it's a waste of time done with their last spare 250 hours? This guy at least has created something he likes, and gotten a good number of people to view and speak about.
He might even get more than his 15 minutes of pseudo fame out of it. Not shabby for a spare 250 hours of effort.
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
Folks, let's not sacrifice lambs and chickens to this thing just yet. From what I can see, it's just a box with a bunch of little patterns stuck onto it and a green light inside. I could do that with a pumpkin.
I thought open source was supposed to be viral.
Borg couldn't run MS software i distinctly remember that their ships worked on the show.
Johnnyv
It runs Windows, of course.
I made a PHP/MySQL library that prevents SQL injection & makes coding easier!
I first read this as Bong Cube Case.
... if there's one group as creative as case modders ... it's bong makers
Makes sense
"Love heals scars love left." -- Henry Rollins
Oh, but we're all too cultured and intelligent to watch TV, right? My ass. There's too much pop culture knowledge represented here for me to believe that.
Okay, a few of us really don't watch TV. Okay, but 250 hours / 9 months is still less than an hour per day. How many of us can say we wasted less than an hour per day in this and other stupid forums? Is slashdot really more useful than doing creative projects?
I was on the receiving end of the "doesn't have a life" comments when my LEGO project was slashdotted. The most flippant of the comments came from those with 2900 posts showing in their user profiles on various forums. Wanna know what that looks like outside the cyberdork universe?
Amy
You can see the size of a Borg cube here. About half way down the page.
WARNINGS:
Slight spoilers for various sci-fi and skiffy series.
Bandwidth intensive graphics.
High geek level.
Irene KHAAAAAAN!
Definitely Cool.
Does it have a "Sleep" button and is it a low priority command?
I've seen that... the scene you mention is right before the Lumberjack Sized Dad comes in and pops another vein in his forehead over the lastest father/son conflict, right??? I hear he wraps a muffler around his sons head in the season finale.
You are on the way to destruction.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke
Ok, A+ on a cool looking case, and fantasic job implementing it. However, am I the only one that notiuced that motherboard took up about 1/4 of the face of one face of the cube?? Kinda big for a router.
http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_messages/ 879641
this site has some pics of the case.
enjoy
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Naaaaaaaah.
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...had made a sphere but it rolled off the table before he could take a picture.
My Karma is so low that even my own postings are beyond my current threshold
I thought that was the Bong Cube case.
Dang
My first reaction on seeing the story title was that Paramount was suing somebody over using a Borg Cube...
The only reason we have the rights we have is that people just like us died to gain those rights. -- Cheerio Boy
Ok guys, I get all your "resistence is futile", "belong to us" and MS joke references, but doesn't anyone have a good Jerry Ryan insert here? I don't, as it's 12:30 am and I'm not in the humor mood. On the topic of case mods, has anyone seen a Voltron mod? That would be cool. Please, just maybe an autobot mod?
Now if someone would only build a Borg house. That'd be amazing.
>A person nick-named Xor'Arch at the CaseJunkies forums has made an uber-cool case mod. A Borg cube...
I'm sorry, but NOTHING about that is uber-cool. It's hardly even tepid.
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They will never know the simple pleasure of a monkey knife fight
you moron!! Making STAR TREK crap is lame compared to reading & experiencing & bettering yourself. If you wanna indulge your Furry "enjoyable hobbies", keep them to yourself and enjoy the secret pride that being a loser brings you. Please don't brag about them on largely read websites. And PLEASE don't defend the asshats how are loser and how they're not really losers for in fact spending the EQUIVALENT OF THREE MONTH WORKING PART TIME making a computer case!
...seems like their webserver got assimilated by the slashborg.
I am NaN
how long ya think before the b0rg come sue for patent infringement on their cube ship design?
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About 3 years ago I bought a huge black case, that was double-wide. I've been modding it over the years: dremmeled my own window before they were pre-made, wired my own cathodes before they were mass-produced, splitting ide cables before they were made, and using water cooling before the kits were made.
I told everyone I wanted to build a borg cube, and I started, but I never finished. AARRGG! I need to finish and show it off. My case is about 2+ feet wide, by 2 feet tall, and about 2+ feet deep.
Just recently, I changed the radiator for a smaller, more efficient radiator that I moved to the other side of the case and have a super quiet fan blowing across it. The noise level have really dropped. The only thing making any major noise is an old IBM Deskstar that whines.
Computer innards do not make it into Jeri Ryan 7of9 computer case. Human outards do!!!!!! wooo!
Easy guys, I put my pants on one leg at a time. The difference is after I put on my pants I make gold records!
Their patent will have expired
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Why no red dwarf?
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On that same site there is another strange casemod. Blue Lightning from Soefkenijn. link: http://www.soefkenijn.be/?pagina=blnlreview1 Very hot case.