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Build Your Own Lego Computer Case

Posted by michael on from the time-on-your-hands dept.

PuppiesOnAcid writes "Here is what comes about when you cross a case modder and an AFOL (Adult Fan of Legos). It would be interesting to see how he got everything mounted in there since there don't appear to be any screw holes." Not just a Lego shell around a case, he's used the Legos to support everything. Impressive.

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  1. Gamer by spac3manspiff · · Score: 2, Funny

    Im glad he isnt a gamer, because it would be a bitch taking it to lan parties.

    1. Re:Gamer by bulkmailforyou · · Score: 3, Funny

      He could use mindstorms to make it take him to the lan party.

    2. Re:Gamer by heptapod · · Score: 1, Funny

      You know it'd help if you used the correct spelling for grammar.

  2. Legos: a closed, proprietary system by ScentCone · · Score: 5, Funny

    It may seem like you can build and do everything you want with Legos, but you're really locked into what their fat cat corporate greed team says you can do. What the world needs is a good, peer-reviewed, open-ended, modular plastic building block system that everyone can have for free. That would totally rule.

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  3. Re:Build your own lego computer case by spac3manspiff · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or a beowulf cluster out of lego.

  4. AFOL? by One+Childish+N00b · · Score: 4, Funny

    Adult Fan of Lego? we've really got an acronym for this now? Seriously, what's wrong with just 'Lego fan'? Can we stop the frivolous acronyms, they're absolutely unneccessary and getting out of control.

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    1. Re:AFOL? by Russ+Nelson · · Score: 4, Funny

      This is a necessary term. The problem is that for a very long time, TLC (The Lego Corporation) did not see any market for adult products. They thought they were making toys for kids. We taught them a lesson when they sold MANY more RIS (Robotics Invention System) kits than their marketers told them that kids would buy. They would have been happy enough selling to schools. Instead, all of AFOLs bought them, and their eyes were opened.

      So, AFOL.
      -russ

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  5. Must try this with a dual athlon by myowntrueself · · Score: 4, Funny

    What do you suppose the melting point of lego is?

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  6. Adult Fan of Lego? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny


    Now there's an oxymoron for ya!

  7. Re:"Impressive." by bulkmailforyou · · Score: 3, Funny

    As impressive as the toilet would be, I would not want to be around when it collapses.

  8. jesus christ that thing is ugly by victorvodka · · Score: 3, Funny

    I hand it to the guy for doing what he did, but it's been awhile since I've seen something so aesthetically unappealing. I wonder what the queer eyes for the straight guy would have to say about this geek monstrosity.

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  9. I WANT A PARTS LIST by multiplexo · · Score: 2, Funny
    I want a parts list!

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    1. Re:I WANT A PARTS LIST by RobertTaylor · · Score: 5, Funny

      1. Lego.

  10. Re:plural of lego by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    No, they should be called "LEGO® Brand Modular Interactive Playset Components".

  11. Lego fan by ananegg · · Score: 2, Funny

    As a Lego fan i'd just like to say that the 1st CPU is a slap in the face to Lego fans everywhere. It is lacking in any kind of Uniform, random color legos are just tossed about carlessly........ The others, I must say are impressive.

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  12. People who can't spell 'Lego'... by B747SP · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... are like a bunch of bloody sheeps.

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  13. Re:Where do you get this much lego? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    So you never had a mother or a vacuum cleaner?

  14. Forget the legos...this guy still has a TYEWRITER! by hlygrail · · Score: 2, Funny

    Look at the pics -- he still has a TYPEWRITER on his desk!! Gack!

  15. A REAL Lego Computer by hcsteve · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bah! That's not a lego computer. This guy is working on a REAL lego computer.

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