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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
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
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."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
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
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.
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?
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
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!
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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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
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 $5.99 a year to your provider or hosting your cool stuff on your cable modem.
Anybody have any idea what the basic "sweet spot" is to hardware/softwatre/bandwidth needs in order to laugh back at the
Also -- I know this is off-subject, however since I can't seem to get to the actual content, I figured it was no big deal to venture off the path.
(+1 Funny) only if I laugh out loud.
I want one!
Hopefully less than 200$ 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!!!!
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!!!!
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?
When you take the lid off to add/remove hardware, do you have to wear a funny eyepiece or lycra?
"""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. :)
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
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
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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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.
It runs Windows, of course.
I made a PHP/MySQL library that prevents SQL injection & makes coding easier!
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!
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.
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
Lizard "Never let them set limits on your mind!"
Now if someone would only build a Borg house. That'd be amazing.
...seems like their webserver got assimilated by the slashborg.
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