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Build Your Own Lego Computer Case
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.
This has been done before: http://mini-itx.com/projects/legobox/
Well, one of them has hinges. I think that helps matters considerably.
Another Lego Computer!
A much better (IMHO) legoputer as its not just using bricks, but has windows and doors to control cooling!
Your comment should be funny, but somehow isn't. The point of LEGO building is doing things within a set of tight rules and achieving things nobody would think possible. Think LEGO grandfather clock.
The one near my house has a back wall full of buckets with bricks sorted by type and color. If you want a big pile of roof tiles, purple bricks, hinges, glass block, whatever, you can get it. They don't always have everything out, and the selection changes, but it's a great way to stock up on bricks.
You can also get the big blue tub which has a bunch of plain bricks.
The Lego Company offers them. Write for a catalog, they have a section for just bricks (most of the time).
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From the blurb... buy and sell new, used and vintage LEGO® through fixed price and auction services.
the patent expired a long time ago, and there are several knock-off brands, including Megablocks (their chief competitor) and something from Hasbro I think. There are about 5 clone brands that I know of, but I can't think of them off the top of my head.
Anyway, many people are Lego purists, and refust to use clone brands. My experience with them is that the quality isn't as good. But they are about half the price sometimes.
Torro is one such example. A further-removed variant is Meccano.
The grandfather poster doesn't know how right he is though - Lego does have a virtual monopoly, and they charge like a wounded bull for the privelege of buying anything bearing their trademark.
And with many of the newer sets you are locked into building what they want you to - the blocks are becoming less generic and therefore less useful for anything other than what's photographed on the box.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
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;) The speaker box was a little more successful, tho... after the Legos dried-out, of course.
For use when his server melts down, or the bandwitch cop pulls his plug.
Note to fellow Slashdotters... why don't you coralize this stuff right away, *before* the site goes down? I've tried many times to coralize a site, only to see that Coral couldn't retireve it.
Back on topic: This sure blows away any of the stuff I did with Lego bricks when I was a kid! I even tried making an "aquarium",once, but it REALLY leaked.
Willie...
The same thing has been done with several older macs also.
From the mouth of the horse (lookout, it has a timed redirection...
The word LEGO is a brand name, and is very special to all of us in the LEGO Group Companies. We would sincerely like your help in keeping it special. Please always refer to our products as LEGO bricks or toys and not LEGOS. By doing so, you will be helping to protect and preserve a brand of which we are very proud, and that stands for quality the world over. Thank you!
Since Meccano is about 30 years older than Lego it's difficult to see how it can be described as a "further-removed variant". It also historically had nothing in common with Lego (apart from being a construction set). The basic building block of Lego is a plastic brick whilst the basic building block of Meccano is a steel strip with holes in.
Looking at modern offerings from both camps however they do seem to have grown together. Both now offer lots of unimaginative plastic pieces of very limited use. It seems that Meccano has lost its way in the same way that Lego has.
John
The plural of lego is lego.. its like sheep the plural is sheep Americans need to learn it.
you didn't get very far down the page then... that appears to have been a "prototype"... he did much better jobs further down the page.
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[...] but you're really locked into what their fat cat corporate greed team says you can do.
This is true. A pretty recent outrage among AFOLs was the changing of the colors gray, dark gray and brown, to other tones without prior information. This caused a lot of debate and hefty arguing at Lugnet (LEGO® User's Group Network).
The initial discovery: http://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=43553
Much debate and discussion followed, with a lot of AFOLs saying they were very upset and outraged. Some even gave up on buying new LEGO® because the colors didn't match.
Eventually, to keep the color discussions out of other newsgroups, a special "Color" group was formed:
http://news.lugnet.com/color/
As for me, the color change definitely affected me. I had just started building spaceships, which look best in gray (in my opinion), at the time the color change came, and now my old and new bricks don't match.
There is no such thing as Legos. Lego is a name so you can say Lego Bricks but not legos. People writing Logos sound like non English speakers who make common mistakes such as using infos.