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Borg Cube Case

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-that-takes-dedication dept.

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"

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  1. ports? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    uhm.. where's the keyboard/video/etc ports located on? it doesn't show in any of the pics.

  2. Re: A lot of spare time by EvilTwinSkippy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Or pick a genre that would make people google to find out what the reference is. Like, droids from Silent Running, or the space-ship Yamato.

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  3. Here's a Suggestion by netr00t · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hey, why not put all the wire to work for your heat disipation? It may actually decrease your cpu temp.

  4. I don't get it by stratjakt · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

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  5. Re:Just irresponsible... by genmanath · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Technically, all slashdottings are instances of a flash mob (or flash crowd).

    flash crowd
    Larry Niven's 1973 SF short story Flash Crowd predicted that one consequence of cheap teleportation would be huge crowds materializing almost instantly at the sites of interesting news stories. Twenty years later the term passed into common use on the Internet to describe exponential spikes in website or server usage when one passes a certain threshold of popular interest (what this does to the server may also be called slashdot effect). It has been pointed out that the effect was anticipated years earlier in Alfred Bester's 1956 The Stars My Destination.

    Source: The Jargon File: flash crowd

    In this case, /.ers are a flash mob and a swarm of Species 8472

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