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Server Inside a Suitcase
Spleener12 writes "Andrew Larson and Derek Radke have come up with an interesting case mod concept: a fully fledged server inside of a suitcase (originally designed to hold airsoft guns,) complete with a window, neon lights, and plenty of external ports. The case is a result of a summer's worth of research, design, and construction, and they are planning on constructing a few more to sell to any interested buyers."
Not only that, but it isn't even original! You can get a PREMADE acrylic case that is in the form of a briefcase from ClearPC. Not only that, but it fits ATX motherboards. Here's the product page and a couple reviews:
What a shame.
Why did this make it to the front page of slashdot?
Read the last linked phrase in the summary, "sell to any interested buyers." Pay money, get your advertisement shown.
Maybe you should RTFA:
"When all the dust had settled, it came to about 300 dollars for just the case, racks, window, lighting, and other misc stuff. That also includes parts we purchased and didn't end up using. Time and labor were the main costs."
Nothing about computer components. Motherboard, CPU, hard drives, power supplies, so on and so forth.
A blog like any other.
>>That sounds like a really cool idea. Do you know where I might be able to find one and how much they would cost? I did some googling but didn't find anywhere that sells them.
How is this redundant? The other poster was making a joke.
If you are serious, I hacked up a 5" PSOne LCD (silly typo, that is what I get for posting without coffee), which was more or less readable if I ran a console in VGA resolution. Paid about $30 for it at the time, and took me the better part of the weekend to figure out how to properly solder the connection. Take a look at http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=62951
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