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Wooden Computer Accessories
polyp2000 writes "It's always interesting to read about case-mods, but this company has a novel twist, for nature loving geeks. Maybe even the perfect accessory for a wooden case mod. Swedx do a nice line in wooden monitors, keyboards, and some sweet looking wooden mice in a selection of different woods."
Computers for the Ahmish.
After years of your computer giving you wood, you can finally give back.
Now my pc will burn with the rest off my house! Aggggg!
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to go with my woodie station wagon!
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Definitely not the case and/or setup for those overclockers out there :) especially with heat output getting real close to 100W...
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I suppose that halt+catch fire will take on a whole new meaning!
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It wooden work.
I swear, if I see another Slashdot comment with "It will be interesting to see"...
For some reason, the song "Burning Down the House" comes to mind.
So what else is new? Here is my first bought PC... http://www.computercloset.org/OSI-C4PMF.htm
And that brown stuff on the sides is real wood.
Too bad we'll probably never know if this site gets /.'d since it's in Sweden.
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As if most Slashdot readers truly need more wood when sitting before a computer ;)
Not nessisarly practical but intresting.
I can see walking into a log caben and finding a computer in a woden case, woden monitor and woden mouse and keyboard.
Might also work for a CEO who wants the building done in wood motif.
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WTF why has my Prescott case gone up in a fireball and electromagnetic interference fried all my electronics?
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
The Mac prototype was made of wood and so was the first mouse. Nothing new here.
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isn't there a bunch of problems with EMI here? I thought this stuff needed to be surrounded by something conductive. oh well... back to bzflag
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wooden cases huh? wouldnt want an Athlon in there, the heat might cause an office fire. Whats next, tablets made out of stone?
I can see it now, the boss walks in with his shiny (heavy) new tablet, suddenly those power point presentations are elevated to commandment level. Plus if someone disagrees, it doubles as a pacifier.
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ok i first look at the link swedx.se and think someone has pulled a fast one on the editors. I click on it (yeah i know, bad practice when you suspect a bad link) and i see these mice that just look dirty. I dont know if it is just me, but those mice, with the two buttons and the black scroll wheel nested in the middle, looks like a certain part of the anatomy.
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Does anyone actually get some sleep instead of maliciously targeting and slashdotting sites 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365...... you get my gist.
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Can anyone else say "splinters"?
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cut down a tree in honor of it?
Hmmmmm..... Anyone else see somehting wrong with this picture??
The problem with wood case mods and I'm sure monitors is proper heat dissapation. The wood must be thicker than plastics and certainly metal and would hold a lot more heat compared to these other materials. This constant heat expansion and contraction would probably lead to cracking over the years, as regular furniture.
Didn't Jack Gallo, publisher of Blush Magazine, have a wood-cased LCD flatpanel monitor on his desk?
Why yes, he did.
In like 1998.
And there's always competition.
I see this as more justification for the extreme cooling I wanted to apply to my machine. The SO only sees the bottom-line, and not the computing benefits ("why do you want to overclock your machine to 9GHz? It works well at its normal speed! It's too expensive!").
Now I finally have the means to justify it when the PC burns down!
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It looks like you are trying to remove a splinter. Would you like me to help?
BH: Uhhhh..... huh-huhhh. huh-huh.
Uhhh... Hey Beavis...
Your computer is like,
giving me wood...
BV: YEh yeH! HeHht-Heh. Yeah. Its cool.
BH: Yeaaah. Its coool.
Back in the forest, never cut down in the first place!!!
Sure, they may like accessories from cut-down trees.
Me, I'm still waiting for my authentic ivory mouse and tiger fur coated keyboard.
yes, that was a joke
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wouldn't nature loving geeks want computers that are not made out of precious trees?
I'm nature-loving. That's why I would never support a company that cuts down trees or buys wood to make PC accesories...
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There's a Clavia Nord Synthesizer that has a wheel controller made of stone and a pitch bend stick made of wood.
:-)
It's one thing to have a digital device with natural materials in the case, but it's much cooler when actual parts of the machine are wood and stone
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Wood is maybe not the best idea. I'd like my computer to be silent, dissipate it's heat properly, and otherwise be transparent.
I just can't see wood fulfilling any of these requirements.
.. for debian woody fans!
But thanks, I'll just stick to the cheap mass-produced hardware (except the monitor, that's the only computer part worth spending money on imo). Maybe I'm just a functional type..
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Your computer would never get hot enough to catch wood on fire. You would be able to cook an egg on the metal case long before wood smolders. Even a capacitor popping in the power supply is no big deal. My only conern is RFI, but maybe they put a layer of conductive paint on the inside.
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Although it would definately be a real bugger to cart around, a stone PC might actually be rather cool. I'm not sure how you would joint it though... maybe stone surrounding a stronger but thin metal frame? Marble would be particularly cool in creating a PC.
How about plaster? Could you chisel out an artistic PC? Clay.... doesn't it retain shape rather nicely after heating (might be a bit fragile though).
If we moved away from the metal frames, we could perhaps make some rather wicked PC mods. After all, who can really make a molded metal case without a full forge or the ability to heat metal to molten temperatures, much easier with wood or clay/plaster, etc.
breaking your computer would give you so much more satisfaction.
Finally, I can have an entire inflammable expensive computer that warps, rots, gets infested by termites, cracks, splinters, weighs a lot and breaks easily. And destroys trees.
:-D. I'm pretty sure there's a reason we use cheap plastics and metals for building computers. And I have so many cases that I just found outside, what happens when someone upgrades the wood computer and throws the old one outside. No one would want a wooden case that's just been sitting outside for a while. epsecially in the rain, at least if it rains on a metal case you're fine, just dry it off. If it rains on a wood case it'll probably warp, rot, and smell.
Just what I always wanted
It seems as though their server has been reduced to a pile of smoldering embers.
(BTW, how is a mouse made from a dead tree supposed to be nature-friendly?)
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You'd think a company would make sure they have the bandwidth ready before they advertised err submitted the story.
Wouldn't sweat wreak havok on a wooden mouse, anyways? My lowly plastic one gets stained and dirty enough.
finally some accessories for my oak c cube for work, and wooden case at home!
seriously though, look at the the review of a couple of wood cases, some of the pre-made ones are pretty slick!
wooden computer cases: www.luddite.com. Fascinating company.
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The way that's server's going now, I'm willing to bet that their stock is about to be real hot.. As in, on fire hot.
This statement is false.
Why is it that every case mod article we have, that will get slashdotted (they always do), causes at least 10-20 "I hope their webserver isn't $CASEMOD"??
:-p
I mean, we're all smart enough to know that they're actual webserver is probably some black 1U server somewhere
I don't mean to start a holy war here.....aw, that's another post
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...send me your old beige cases. As a tech-loving geek, I want to build a house with them. Sweet looking, in a selection of different brands.
For the longest time, the beige box was the height of fashion in the computer world. Everything was the same shade of beige, too. Printers, monitors, cases, keyboards, mice, EVERYTHING. And everything was boxy, too. Rounding the corners on your box was considered daring. Then some bright boy came up with the idea of white boxes. Then the natural corollary, the black box. Then Apple came out with the iMac and suddenly we had six new colors. And we had blobs as well as boxes.
Of course, we have had case-modders from the get go, and some innovative 'concept' designs have been displayed at trade shows, but in the mainstream, the physical design of computers and accessories has been boring.
I would love to be able to choose from a wide style of cases for my computer. Computer case design has been unobtrusive and homogenous up till now to please the major buyers, corporations. Now, with many smaller form-factor motherboards, and more people with some kind of fashion sense buying computers for the home, there will probably be an explosion in case and accessory design.
I'd love to see some nice retro stuff. Cases and accessories that looked like a 1950s wooden stereo, or a brushed aluminum AirStream trailer, or made to look like a sculpture would probably sell well. How about a tiny computer with only USB and FireWire (or maybe BlueTooth or something like it but faster, to do away with cords.) for expansion that comes with matching 'collectable' accessories. Companies could manufacture snap on covers: Star Wars or LoTR for us geeks, sports memorablia for the average joe, unicorns and big eyed ragamuffins for the ladies, and so forth.
The day of the beige box is hopefully done. I for one welcome our new, more stylish computers & accessories.
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Remember kids, AMD processors and wooden cases don't mix! Tell me, what were you supposed to do in the case of a fire...?
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Remember that the outer part of the first computer mouse (invented at my company back in 1964) was also made of wood.
To all those (sanctimonious) posters who say "gosh, those guys claim that they are nature loving, but then they condone cutting down trees to make computer parts" :
Well what renewable resource is your computer case made of?
Well, they have to remove entire mountains from the ground to get metal, and I can't say that the petrol industry (you know, plastics!) is too "nature friendly." So come back when you're typing on keyboards assembled from windfall wood and bones of animals that died of natural causes. Otherwise I really don't want to hear about it.
About 6 years ago, I found a nice big round log and began sawing a 3" piece off. Then, I took my new CD player apart and routed out the shape of the circuit board inside the log. After using some silicone to secure the circuit board inside the log, I was styling with my newly created CD playing log. It even had a wooden lid and everything.
I got a few strange looks carrying it around, but for the most part everybody thought it was hilarious. Don't know what damage that laser did to me, but it was worth it.
And there are also analog wooden computers.
Suddenly the phrase "Try to avoid bugs" takes on a whole new meaning...
;)
(No, it's not funny)
I'm wondering how heavy a wooden mouse would be...would long-term use give you thick muscled wrists? (*NO* don't even think about it
then I automatically think of what in Germany is called "BeiBholz". That's a piece of wood that you want to bite when you get a BSOD while doing some important work. So Microsoft was inventing the market for wooden computer accessories.
someone's thought of this before /sarcasm off
Seriuosly? No.
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I saw a real neat Mac case mod once. Well, really it was a complete replacement. This guy took an old radio case, the kind with the big round dial on the front and everything, and mounted this old Mac inside of it. The dial was then hinged to allow for a front load CD drive, similar to the 20th Aniversary Mac. It was a pretty neat mod. I wish i still had that link.
I just want to point out that this is one of few small sites that survived a good Slashdotting, and that it's running IIS/ASP
I'm waiting for someone to post a reply about their "Wooden Accessor{y/ies}" -- I know someone wants to.
Argh. Too many stupid jokes are the only things getting moderated up at the moment.
I'm so pleased to have heard about this - I've been after this sort of thing for a long time now: case mods etc. that have elegant or classical styling instead of the usual "how many lights can I stick on it" crap.
I'm quite sick of beige boxes, and ugly designs - why can't more companies go for something like this? How about some nice brushed steel keyboards and mice? How about a nice (fake) tortoiseshell keyboard and mouse combo?
Apple turns out a ine array of beautiful elegant designs, but all the PC accessories just look like they escaped from the set of a cheap sci fi film set.
About bloody time, that's all I have to say.
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What, you think nature doesn't fell trees? Imagine how much termites must itch, and never being able to scratch...
When you whine about "cutting down trees", consider the fate of useful and useless species. Corn versus wildflowers, for example. Wood is probably the sole reason there's any trees left standing anywhere.
I'm an amateur hobbyist woodworker -- it's nice to build things you can hold -- so I love seeing stuff like this, and hope one day I'll be good enough to make them, too.
The funny thing is how many people seem to be in my position. When reading newsgroups like rec.woodworking, I came across a lot of tech-types that have either turned to woodworking as a hobby in their spare time, or in their laid-off time.
Anybody else on this board that have moved toward woodworking?
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I'd never buy a wooden computer.
I'd never even accept one if it was given to me.
Reminds me too much of Greeks Bearing Gifts.
(clue for the philestines: I think we have enough trouble with TROJANS already)
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If I get a wooden keyboard it has to have wooden keys... Not some cheap keyboard with wood glued on the outside :-)
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Which is not all that bad considering how nice they look - here's a german shop selling them for those that are finding the site slashdotted.
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shit heavy? this seems like a truely bad bad idea. you'd be much better off with a wooden finish, or even a wooden desk whichyour pc fits into. I'm baffled at how well a wooden mouse would work as well.
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Now that's not fair. Were's the "Spelling Mussolini", or the "Spelling Pol Pot", or the "Spelling Castro"? Why do the Nazi's have all the fun?
Can it run 'Woody' Linux?
What would really sell me on this is if the wooden items smell slightly of wood. Now that's something I would really welcome to my computer table. It would break up the smells of the everyday with a pleasing, natural scent.
Come to think of it, how many people are really aware or concered by the smells that surround their work area? Aside from the smell of ozone when something pops. That's a natural header to the worrying smells list.
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It had a wooden case,
a wooden mouse
a wooden keyboard
and a wooden cpu
and it wooden go!
For many years I have wondered why there wasn't someone doing this.
Personally, my idea was that you could design a case, monitor, keyboard, etc. so that it would fit various styles... say Cherry in an ornate antique style, or a circa 1901 arts & crafts mission oak look, etc.
This space available.
There is nothing about teh chassis itself. This is just monitors (LCD's), keyboards and mice.
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Now they will have to make metal computer desks to match the wooden accessories.
As my wife just said, how will you know when to stop typing.
IMHO, there are some serious safety issues with these wooden peripherals. I mean, first we had to worry about carpal tunnel and RSI, now we'll need to add slivers to the list.
* rim shot *
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I wonder how many more "wooden" puns we can fit into this post:
- "This thing wooden work"
- "All they need now are wood chips"
- "What are all these woodmice doing infesting my computer?"
- "Does it use Pine for mail?"
The possibilities are endless.
I swear, if I see another Slashdot comment with "It will be interesting to see"...
Man, we totally just clearcut their servers.
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For some reason remembering seeing the Apple I in the Smithsonian was the first thing I thought of when i thought of a wooden computer case. Have a look Smithsonian Apple I
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Seems like we just reduced the server to sawdust...
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Does their warranty cover termites?
Q: What do you yell when your wood computer crashes?
A: TIMMMMBERRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!
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I can't find the link...
I wasnt going for moderation, just commenting on the standard humor I expect from slashdot..
:)
So I guess...a redundant moderation is fitting
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Nothing is wrong with Slashdot-allowed HTML in my opinion.
I choose not to post, or email, anything in html because I wish the readers of what I post or email to see exactly what I mean to communicate.
If you have not clicked on a slashdot link and got an unexpected goatse link then maybe you have not slashdotted much.
If you had difficulty parsing my original email, then tough, don't bother.
And, if you are an M$ (l)user then you should really only feel comfortable rendering clear text.
I tried out a wooden monitor once, but the picture was just too grainy.
Nice! No more putting cigarettes close to the keyboard. Mind you, even over clocking now becomes a fire hazard! ;-)
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Let's overcome our weakness.
Start with Mozilla:
Wood Theme
Walnut Theme
Making monitors and mice of wood is all good and great, but they really shouldn't build a webserver out of the stuff.
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What you are talking about sounds a lot likeubiquitous computing, pioneered by Mark Weiser. I think this is a few more years down the road. First will come the more stylish computers that still look basically like computers of today, then the radical redesign of cases and accesories to new form factors, then the cases just disappear and all you ever see is the I/O like you say.
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I had a few friends in college who built wooden computer cases, several of whom found some massive problems with grounding and one was severely shocked. Though none of them lined their cases with aluminum or other conductive sheeting, which might have avoided the problem.
Do these wooden accessories need grounding for proper shielding to avoid inbound signal interference?
at the cebit last saturday... really nice stuff.
(the 48" tft tv screens at the benq booth were nicer, tho.)
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I built a wooden computer once. It was awesome. It had a wooden hard drive, a wooden monitor, a wooden mouse, even a wooden CPU.
There was only one problem: It wooden work.
I want it all made of hemp products. I can imagine the odor released by the computers of 100 customer service reps in open cubicles. "God, I love walking in here to the smell of computers each morning!"
Underclocking-----'nuff said there
Besdies insulating foam and aspestos isn't wood right up there with keeping heat in?
Where do I store my logs?
And another is "my time is worth more than your time."
Cut down a tree today . . .
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It is not interesting to read about case mods.
Sorry, read first line of article and had to make the point....
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
There was a rather big (expensive) booth at CeBit promoting this kind of stuff. Probably the same guys. A big booth generally means big plans, so this is one to watch.
Hehehe. I'd find it quite funny. Maybe the case would be called Noerd ? ;-)
To error is human, to forgive, beyond the scope of the OS.
So I bought myself a wooden monitor. And a wooden keyboard. They looked lovely.
So I bought a wooden mouse. Wooden speakers, and a wooden printer. Beautiful.
Next up was a wooden case. Wooden PSU, CPU and wooden RAM. It all looked gorgeous.
So I got a wooden hard drive, wooden graphics card and wooden DVD burner. All connected with wooden cables.
With bated breath, and trembling hands, I plugged it all together. And pressed the wooden power button.
And the damn thing wooden boot.
My mate built one a couple of years ago
:-)
Probably the first time in years he's been ahead of a trend
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I remember seeing a wooden mouse, at least (and one that looked *much* nicer than this one -- a bit more angular and with large buttons that covered the whole top). It was being sold with, I believe, either a wooden monitor or keyboard. Darned if I remember which, though. It wasn't both.
This must have been at *least* five years ago.
May we never see th
Now we need a stone one, a gold one and a meat one.
cue 'back to stone tablets' joke.
As for the meat one, cue biotech jokes, sexual jokes and Fifth Element quotes.
So where's the thread?
Thread's dead, baby.
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not as if other people have been around for years doing the same thing, is it?
Because I mounted a small power supply, motherboard, and a hard drive in a FedEx box, as an easier-to-carry alternative to a 1U case (nice and flat, but way too wide and deep) or a typical desktop/tower case (too, well... box-like). As an added bonus, it's less likely to get stolen because it doesn't exactly look like a computer. Though I do have to be careful any time FedEx comes to pick up a package. {grin}
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Luckily, there are no wild termites in Sweden, but there are some variant of carpenter ants.
So who do you call when your mouse got bugs?
Save the trees please...
Why? Because after a frustrating tech support call with no real help, some might end up throwing their wodden computer accessories in the fireplace...
I prefer this case mod
With an update of an old favorite. I gotta 1600 amd they call it a woodie. surf city here we come It's not very cherry it's an oldie but a goodie. It ain't got firewire or a plexie window, but it gets me on the web you know..... going to to surf city gonna get porn, goin to surf city cause it's two on one.....
a wood worm infects all these lovely boxes!
If you buy a model that comes in hickory or mesquite, you can use the case as a smoker if you're an overclocker. Imagine playing an extra-long session of your favorite FPS, then turning off your machine, opening the case up, and removing some piping hot smoked sausage.
Could be Art! Calder-style wooden mobile made of exploded iBook parts endlessly running Red Pill.... Or stuffed into a mockup of Woz's original Apple I plywood case... Hmmmm....
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Here's a really cool example of how we often learn something after it's already too late.
A report on widespread landslides in 1996> I'm still waiting for my authentic ivory mouse and tiger fur coated keyboard.
Uh, wouldn't it be better to make the keyboard out of ivory and put the tiger fur on the mouse? It's kinda hard to paint letters on the fur...
That's one of the few things I've seen on Slashdot that actually deserves +5 Funny.
You owe me a new keyboard. Preferably one of those spiffy wooden ones.
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Here's a really cool example of how we often learn something after it's already too late.
A report on widespread landslides in 1996, almost all due to clearcuts Clearcuts that were created up to 50 years ago slid away, destroying whatever trees happened to be growing there. This was a year where in rained a bit more than it had in a while.Take it from someone who's walked through the Oregon backwoods:
98% of the forests in Oregon have been clearcut at least once. Only the more mountainous parts of Oregon have returned to forest, which has caused the near extinction of the lowland rainforest.
Most of the clearcuts happened with the advent of the chainsaw (they're less than 50 years old). This makes it actually more likely to see a clearcut than not when you're on top of a hill.
Even old clearcuts still look like clearcuts and will for as long as I'm alive.
Here's a site with a few cool photos of the Valley of the Giants, a 51 acre "oasis" of lowland rainforest that still remains. It is probably the largest such stand remaining. Note how long it takes to drive there; it's in one of the most remote logging areas in the state. Your great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandchildren may eventually live to see trees like this somewhere else.
These cases would look so good in my office. I love the look of the leather one.
http://www.exoticwoodcrafts.com/
Another problem with wood accessories is that wood gives off gasses over time, which will tend to cause corrosion of your electronic components. With small, low voltage components, even slight, undetectable corrosion can have disasterous results.
Don't expect your wooden PC to last very long.
Proverbs 21:19
For those abuse their computers by kicking them or smashing their keyboards (you know who you are), cheap replaceable plastic parts might be best. I hate to think of the splinters that could result with these wooden items.
Where do you live? In the northern hemisphere, winter causes most trees to look dead. The pine trees are the exception. Hence they are a symbol of hope for people freezing their asses off.
In ancient times, pine trees were not cut and hauled into homes to celebrate yuletide. They were decorated outside. I daresay there are places in the world where this is still true.
Pagans who were forced to choose between becoming Christians or being burned at the stake nevertheless continued the tradition. Hence the happy Christmas tree.
For those of you reading this who are not from the U.S., it is a widespread practice for suburban Americans to pay $15-$45 in a parking lot for a cut pine tree standing 2-3 meters tall, so that it can be placed inside their home, where it slowly becomes a major fire hazard as it dries out. Most trees originate from private "tree farms" in the Western U.S.; trees are hauled via diesel truck all over the country to satisfy this strange thirst for indoor pine trees.
I also daresay that nearly all Americans blissfully believe that this tradition happens everywhere people are fortunate enough to afford a tree, like them.
> ...but what if you had a desk fan or larger blowing against the open case? Would that be more efficient than leaving the case closed with the case/psu fans?
Not as effective as the CPU fan, but for all the rest, it'd work just fine. The reason most people don't do it is noise, airflow (your case fans don't move papers on your desk, generally) and power efficiency, which is lower for the desk fan idea because smaller fans doing directed work need less power for the same airflow.
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Oak would be fine next to a roaring fire. Balsa is asking for a bonfire. Not all wood is created equal. At least, according to my g/f.
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I meant that I don't notice that the box is sitting there. I mean that I don't have to notice the hardware.
I did not mean that the interior of the box can be seen.
totally offtopic, but...
Nice hacked website.
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I found a place that sells 22 mil self-adhesive hardwood veneer and plan to cover a computer case with it. Can someone who knows a whole lot more about this than I do take a look and tell me whether this is a good idea? Seems to me it'd work.
Here's a link.
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...this was modded funny!!! if you recycle one soda a day, you have 6kg metal to make a PC case.
How cool is that?
Not a bad idea for a custom PC case -- made entirely of empty soda cans. If I drank soda and had need for another PC case, I might almost consider that.
The big question would be: do you stack the cans as they are for a unique look, or pound them flat into metal sheets before fastening them together? Just make sure nobody mistakes it for trash and throws it out or turns it in for the 10-cent deposit.
"Mom, where's my computer?"
"What computer? I got $3.75 for taking care of all those empy cans in your room."
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...be considered a forest?
sorry, had to make the obligatory beowulf joke.
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I'd also be pessimistic and assume that a lot of PC components are engineered with the assumption that they're going to be grounded to a common chassis. It wouldn't be hard to build a harness out of some wire and screw terminals and ground it to the power supply's case (or the external ground). Better safe than sorry.
Why is it that the proponents of "one nation under God" are so eager to get rid of "liberty and justice for all"?
Manufacturing computers is materials intensive; the total fossil fuels used to make one desktop computer weigh over 240 kilograms, some 10 times the weight of the computer itself.
That would work in the northern US and Canada, but I live in the southern US, where even the winter is quite temperate and the summer is downright uncomfortable.
I do like the idea of keeping it in the freezer.
can i get a corn-husk mouse pad too?
http://fargo.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~danny/mirror.html
I know they're being /.ed but it's a business, can't they just suck up the bandwidth bill to make money? I mean what if they were posted on some computer geek news site... oh, wait....
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
If there's a flood, your machine will just float right out.