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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.

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  1. Been done before by jthorpe · · Score: 4, Informative

    This has been done before: http://mini-itx.com/projects/legobox/

    1. Re:Been done before by stupidfoo · · Score: 4, Insightful

      A little difference. That mini-itx one is just a lego box with the parts piled up inside and the back wall doesn't even exist.

      This is a higher quality production by far. A two year old could make the one at mini-itx.com.

    2. Re:Been done before by DeathAndTaxes · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Is it just me or has building weird things out of Legos become about as original as posting half-eaten food on eBay?

      Anyway, here's another one that I built 3 years ago. Someone said it'd be a hassle taking this to LANs, but I took mine to about 30 LANs. It was stable, self-supportive, and didn't require anything but gravity to hold itself nice and tight. I took it apart a few months ago. It had become a bit passe already.

      http://kahn.caglan.net/~dan/images/gallery/LegoC as e

    3. Re:Been done before by Rei · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The thing is, is that really such a good idea? I mean, metal provides you shielding, dissipates static charges, and all that other good stuff.

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  2. My Lego Computer by dicepackage · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I also built a computer case made out of Legos. It isn't as nice as the one shown but I thought I would share it with the rest of Slashdot. You can view some pictures on my website at http://home.comcast.net/%7Esessions9/lego.html.

  3. Google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I know Google's server had a case made from legos
    once upon a time.(Scroll down.)


    Not nearly as artistic as these, though.

  4. Where do you get this much lego? by bulkmailforyou · · Score: 4, Interesting

    After seeing all these projects done with legos, I wonder how you can obtain this much lego. Stores do not seem to sell much more than kits, or very simple buckets with varieties of pieces. Where can you get a ton of just plain bricks?

    1. Re:Where do you get this much lego? by WMD_88 · · Score: 4, Informative

      The Lego Company offers them. Write for a catalog, they have a section for just bricks (most of the time).

  5. 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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    1. Re:Legos: a closed, proprietary system by shoolz · · Score: 3, Informative

      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.

    2. Re:Legos: a closed, proprietary system by Mr.+Shiny+And+New · · Score: 4, Informative

      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.

  6. Re:My Lego Computer - link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative
  7. Re:Gamer by bulkmailforyou · · Score: 3, Funny

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

  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. Another good one by RobertTaylor · · Score: 4, Informative

    Another Lego Computer!

    A much better (IMHO) legoputer as its not just using bricks, but has windows and doors to control cooling!

  11. Lego Store! by tinrobot · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  12. Holy dang it took me like two seconds to find out! by SweetAndSourJesus · · Score: 4, Informative

    yep

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

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

  14. Re:Gamer by Schemat1c · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

    I just love how the grammar/spelling nazis almost always make mistakes in their corrective posts and are usually ACs.

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  15. Re:Is it that hard? by ScentCone · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Give me time and legos and I could do that too.

    Ah, but this guy was enough of freak to actually take the time and do it. That's a special sort of nerd, right there.

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  16. 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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  17. Coralized link for this... by Announcer · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://members.cox.net.nyud.net:8090/richw/lego.ht m

    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. ;) The speaker box was a little more successful, tho... after the Legos dried-out, of course.

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

    1. Lego.

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

    ... are like a bunch of bloody sheeps.

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  20. Re:plural of lego by emc · · Score: 4, Informative

    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!

  21. Big consumer of Lego bricks by plover · · Score: 4, Interesting
    and one of the finest Lego modelers out there is Jennifer Clark.

    Look at her website for a while, and you'll just say "wow." She has the most amazing designs, and stays as true to the equipment she's modeling as she can.

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