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The Bender PC Case
malorkus writes "This Norwegian site details the process of building an awesome Bender (from Futurama) case mod, complete with an Optical drive in his mouth that you slot CDs into! (Be sure to click the link at the bottom of the page to see the next page in the sequence)." This is one of the most impressive DIY cases I've ever seen. Props to the artists behind this one, even if I can't read any of your words!
In the interest of promoting more enlightened discussion, a translated version of the webpage can be found here.
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~ |rip/\/\aster /\/\onkey
Bender only liked Jazz Disks? CDs are a bit to flakey.
Dashboard Widgets
Does it have a shiny, metal ass?
Unfortunately, I am not Wil Wheaton
Full mirror here, but it's still in Norwegian.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
You know, a part of me says these guys need to get a life.
And another part of me says this is a really cool waste of time.
Why doesn't Slashdot ever get slashdotted?
...alcohol in its mouth, not CDs. ;)
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The servers shiny metal ass is on fire... when you get linked you know your gonna "Fry"
"I am a kernel in the linux army"
...shoving your filthy monkey data into his mouth.
Hmm, I wonder if anyone sells custom made computer cases like this? It would be really cool.
....if when you inserted the media into the mouth, the eyes indicated a play, paused, ff, or rr sysmbol.
Add a humidor and a couple of cigars and it would take it over the top.
Even better is that when DRM material is inserted, "Bender" would output "Get bent"
Nice work
"Look Lois, the two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a fat white guy who is threatened by change."
I don't think it's the actual site that's down, it seems to be whoever is serving up the ads that's struggling.
It was down after only 1 comment :-/
Wow, 6 post and no nothing to be found, when will the /. Editors learn to set up mirrors before posting.
I wanted to see Bender's shiney metal ass (I'm told it's made of candy!).
When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.
Except mirrordot doesn't have the page either. Really suuuuucks.
Schrodinger's cat is either dead or really pissed off...
hehehh
If you turn off Javascript, the Coral cached link works fine. It's their ad server that melted, and with 4 or 5 javascript includes per page, that's a long wait for timeouts.
n/t
Bender: He's gay.
Leela: How do you know?
Bender: I have this thing called gaydar.
IGB: More fun than eating oatmeal!
Be sure to click the link at the bottom of the page to see the next page in the sequence
Good job promoting slashdotting the server twice. No wonder the site went down so fast.
This is by far the coolest case mod I've seen. I wish I had the skills (and time) to do something like that.
Do you think the guys from the Futurama team saw this one? Anyone knows of a way to contact them (I don't think writing to Fox would be any good).
Shinier than yours, meat bag!
It should be made of recycled beer cans.. :P
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I think...
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...can be found here.
... you've melted Norway. Both this site and Opera is crawling.
"I don't like having disks crammed into me... unless they're Oreos, and then only in the mouth."
It has been cancelled.
Since the site is heavily slashdoted, here is the page with pictures of the final result, very cool!
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http://overklokking.no/art.php?artikkelid=14773&s
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Is this vague enough for you?
if you're running firefox with adblock - add a block for ad1.hardware.no/*
That's what's been slasdotted - not the site.
_ _ _ Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!
Toms Hardware has a pic of it.
The "printable page" version is ad free and still loading quickly. Hurry (:
http://overklokking.no/print.php?artikkelid=14773
The design the thought the effort, it is a piece of art that becomes a computer. Amazing, he could've just made a Bender model out of metal. But where is the fun in that :)
You gotta add a twist. The computer case is pretty damn cool.
5 stars and 2 thumbs up.
Putting ad1.hardware.no in your favorite ad-blocker's list will do the trick.
Any true Futurama fan knows that Bender has a 6502 CPU. Just point the f-ray at his head to prove it.
"Seven Deadly Sins? I thought it was a to-do list!"
So uh, will my case rust if I DON'T pour beer in it?
Am I the only one that finds that one up-skirt pic to be a little disturbing? I really don't need to see his "fan".
I have been wanting to make a MythTV machine for a long time now and this is GOING to be the case for it. Has anyone else here done something cool with thier MythTV machine? Bender: "I think I saw a 2!" Fry: "Don't worry - there's no such thing as 2."
....at that huge Norwegien game gathering. You know, the one where they had the coolest 5 day network ever?
I think it won their case-modding contest as well. Well - more power to them.
The other cool thing at the game gathering was the 1 GBps uplink to the net that they had! My god, I had never heard about such a big pipe before!
R.
for a second i thought to myself "oo! i'l buy one and put my gf's comp in it while she's at work"
:(.
by the looks of it theyre not for sale though
overklokking their server.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
http://www.hairykrishna.f2s.com/bender.html
One of the best case mods I've seen.
"Physics is to math as sex is to masturbation." -R. Feynman
Hey, I programmed assembler on a 6502 during high scool :) It was a training board named Emma II if I'm correct.
The C-64 had a 6510 CPU in comparison...
I fully expect to be modded +5, Informative for this ;)
:D Har alltid vï½rt en stor Futurama-fan og var 100% sikker pï½ at dette skulle jeg fï½ til, uansett hvor mye tid og penger jeg skulle bruke. Jeg hadde aldri klart ï½ gjennomfï½re dette prosjektet hvis jeg ikke hadde fï½tt hjelp av mine kamerater: Einar Flï½ - sveising, Geir Gravem - mattegeni som regnet ut vinkler og stï½rrelsesforhold. Sï½ en stor takk til disse :)
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:). Nï½ som alle malene og delene vi trenger, er pï½ plass, sï½ kan byggingen begynne :D
:). Siden disse er på kun 10 watt og kobles i serie så blir de ikke varme i det hele tatt og bruker heller ikke mye strøm.
Prosjekt Bender
Forfatterbilde
Publisert: 14 april 2005
Av Kjetil Eide
Ikke alle våre worklogs er kjedelige kasser og vannkjøling. Konstruktøren av TUX-kabinettet slår nå til med Futurama-figuren Bender i full størrelse.
Bizardos prosjekt er et av de fï½ virkelig originale innslagene i workloggavdelingen vï½r og er noe man absolutt kan kalle "one of a kind".
Vi i Overklokking.no har valgt ï½ fremheve Bizardos prosjekt nettopp pï½ grunn av originaliteten og gjennomfï½ringen. Prosjektet burde vï½re en innspirasjon for alle til ï½ lage noe annet enn bare standard kasser.
Artikkelen som fï½lger er skrevet av Bizardo selv, slik han velger ï½ presentere sitt Prosjekt Bender. Vi i Overklokking.no kan ikke annet enn takke for at du deler det med oss, og hï½per vi fï½r se mer av deg senere.
Forord
Etter at jeg var ferdig med mitt TUX prosjekt, mï½tte jeg bare lage noe nytt.. Jeg tenkte i flere mï½neder pï½ hva dette skulle bli og hadde flere gode ideer, men til slutt falt jeg for Bender
Planlegging og utstyr
Hvor stor skulle den egentlig bli? Og hvordan fï½ alt til ï½ passe sammen? Dette mï½tte nï½ye tenkes gjennom og jeg fant ut at jeg kunne lage hele figurer i papp fï½rst, for da kunne jeg feile sï½ mye jeg ville uten at jeg trengte ï½ slï½se med metallplater og masse tid.
Dette ble brukt til prosjektet
* 1 stk Slim slotload DVD ROM/CD-brenner fra Carputer.no
* 1 stk VIA EPIA-M 10000 Mini-ITX hovedkort
* WLAN-kort med antenne
* 2 stk 10 watt lyspï½rer (12volt)
* 1 stk 120 GB harddisk + 4 stk eksterne 250 GB disker koblet til firewire
* Panserslange (til fï½tter og hender)
* 3 kjï½kkenboller i metall fra Coop (til toppen av hode, og til beina)
* 4-5 papplater
* 3 stk 0,7 mm stï½lplater
* 1 Stk Digital lydopptaker fra Produkt 24
Etter litt leking med diverse 3d programmer klarte jeg ï½ fï½ ut denne 3D-modellen. Den brukte jeg som arbeidstegning der jeg skrev pï½ mï½l over hvor stor den skulle bli osv.
Sï½ begynnte arbeidet med pappfiguren, regne ut vinkeler, finne riktige stï½rrelser osv.
Sï½nn, der har vil en pappfigur, veldig skeiv og greier. Med denne pappfiguren er det bare ï½ brette ut papp-platene og legge de pï½ metallplatene og bruke de som mal
Byggingen av Bender
Øynene som brukes er 10 watt halogenpærer som går på 12 volt, og kobles til psu-en
Så var det å begynne på kroppen av Bender. Startet med å plukke fra hverandre pappfiguren og så legge den på metallplatene og tegne på målene:
Så begynte skjæringen.
Platene ble skåret ut, valset til de ble
Yer wéb sêrver hås been eåten by a Møøse!
You are correct. I remember seeing that in the Slurm episode.
That also means I can program bender. I first learned assembly and machine language on an old commodore vic-20 with a 6502 chip.
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It will have Quad Xeons, A Terrabyte of HDD Space, Hookers, and Beer! On second thought, forget the Xeons and HDD space.
Fruitf*cker 5000 anyone? The CD slot in his mouth might not be all that funny, but incorporating a real juicer would be.
I think with the interesting people, their lives can't possibly be wrapped up into a nice little package.
http://www.mirrordot.com/stories/9bb948b697d53a9e2 f050674e3c973f3/index.html
I couldn't understand any of it, but then this line caught me:
Den ene knappen er powerknapp, den andre er Bender voice knapp "Bite My Shiny Metal Ass"
lol
Are you sure it's Bender? It looks more like that other guy, Boiler.
I know it's not Flexo cuz he doesn't have the stylish goatee.
#DeleteChrome
The page takes forever to load, and so here is a mirror of the website in question, including all images. Enjoy.
I am too lame to make a
As far as I understand from the text and the 'translation', the antenna on his head serves as a WLAN antenna. Which is of course a less embarassing solution than having to plug a network cable into his shiny metal ass.
Any case mod that requires chicks wearing hard hats and lots of welding is pretty fucking sweet by me.
Although, I find it a bit distrubing that they get Futurama in Norway.
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. -- H. L. Mencken
Too many translation requests by millions of users. Please click here or try again later. PD: You know that you take less than 20 seconds to copy and paste...
2. Fire needs to come out the exhaust fan port.
Not bad for meatbags though. =)
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity but they've always worked for me" - HST
You have to turn his head to grind it, though...
What I want to know is 1) where's the cigar?, and 2) if you stick a magnet on him does he sing "She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain"?
Technically, 3) it looks like the fan is on the underside and I don't recall seeing a vent on the back -- was there one?
A very cool case. Very cool. I want one.
.. pa-ra-bo-la, pa-ra-bo-la, 2 pi R, 2 pi R, where's your latus rectum, where's your latus rectum, 2 pi R
How do linked pages always get killed when nobody ever RTFA? Chewbaca is a wookie... It does not make sense.
I would be scared a bit about putting my computer into such case. You know that without ass-bumpers it could explode?
The latest issue of PC Gamer (UK) has the results to a competition to design a PC case. Which design won? A Bender case of course!
The CD-in-the-mouth thing is a crock though, isn't it. There's no actual drive in there, just a bit of paper! I think a proper translation of the article will include "we tried to rig the CD drive up to his mouth, but it was too hard so we drew some lines on some card instead".
Wow, the OP musta hit a nerve. Take a deep breath, Seth, and try to relax. I think he was joking.
You know, the general consensus on this terminology is that the phrase "get a life" is synonymous with "there must be better things you could do with your time".
so the OP is not suggesting that these people go get a second job. He's just pointing out that on the list of things to do, making a "Bender" computer with a CD drive in its mouth is kinda low (though it does rank higher than replying to posts on Slashdot). Of course, all that's a judgement call, not a commandment from the heavens.
It breaks my pluginses, my precious!
Usually what happens is MirrorDot sees the page on Slashdot when *WE* see the page. By the time it runs off to index and leech it, the site is already down.
Can't MirrorDot or some other service be pre-warned or something, before the
site is even "subscribers can see it early!!!"-worthy?
Neko
Here are three (identical) pictures I found of bender's head under the f-ray... 1 2 3
Mod parent up! classic bender quote. :)
or is this a bottle of norwegian surge? http://fora.zaatar.org/ravi/bender/print.php_files /hand.jpg
The C-64 had a 6510 CPU in comparison...
Meh, only a couple of memory-mapped IO lines different. And the 1541 disk drive for the C-64 had a 6502 in it.
I think he was joking.
Yeah, I get that he was joking. I don't think he was seriously trying to ridicule those Norwegians for wasting precious time and resources on a foolish pursuit. His use of that phrase simply inspired me to question its significance. People tell me to get a life all the time. From my perspective, I'm enjoying the one I have quite nicely.
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Now if he used the actual small bender from think geek and put a macmini inside I'd be impressed...
"Forget this ugly black plastic case -Im going to build my own computer case, and its going to have hookers and blackjack and beer and windows longho... awwww forget the computer..."
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts." ~The Honorable Daniel Patrick Moynihan
I'm gonna build my own Bender PC case, with blackjack and hookers! In fact, forget the PC case.
How do linked pages always get killed when nobody ever RTFA?
We like to look at the pictures.
Damn, you could go nuts with this thing.
- Turn the eyes into drive indicator lights
- Put a speaker in the head so it can make witty Benderisms on power-up, etc.
- Make the arms semi-rigid with steel cable shielding in them for action posing!
- Stick a popcorn maker in the head
Unfortunatly as long as the motherboard and ps have to sit in the body you can't add a beer cooler in there. Condensation and electronics don't mix.
Now the guy should make a Leela PC with ultra-realtisic silicon body parts.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
Actually, if you look closely at http://fora.zaatar.org/ravi/bender/print.php_files /pussing01.jpg it sure looks like they at least tried to get it in there.
I got quite a shock when I found out the story behind the author of the WARFTP software. Read here: http://www.jgaa.com/index.php?cmd=show_article&art icle_id=2&menu=36
10 ?"Hello World" life was simple then
The disks don't worry me half so much as where it looks like you have to plug things in!
Cool article. Thanks. Seth
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I hope you didn't read my post and interpret it to mean I was knocking having all those things. In no way did I intend for my comment to come across that way, but I can see how it might. I was mostly just responding to the conformist view of what adults are expected to be doing with their time. I really wasn't trying to criticize choices people have made within their own lives.
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Saw it "live" at the Gathering this year, he was a few rows away. It looked really good, and good size too. I remember his last case, the tux one too. I wonder what he will do to top this next year, maybe a bsd daemon? Would be cool, since it has so many difficult details. Maybe a whipping tail for disk activity or something. :-)
Rest in peace Malin "looxn" Kristiansen. We miss you...
I can't read any of your words either.
Then there's the readme file for Werecar for Windows 98, which also raises many interesting and confusing issues.
WTF would I want to read about the mundane details of yet another case mod? This thread is useless without pictures.
Guess where the CD goes. Yes, there.
They say the first thing to go is your penis. Well, it's either that or your brain. I forget which...
Even less forgivable: his torso opens from the wrong side! How dare you?!?
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Hi i'm the creator of bender casemod. i'm going to make a webpage in english with text,pictures,small videos, guestbook and a FAQ. it will be released this weekend :)
"Do you think the guys from the Futurama team saw this one"
Hope not, unless the author wants to be sued for copyright infringement!
Oh wait, I'm sure he OK-ed it with the copyright holder first before producing his derivative work and "using it to promote his website".
Copyright sucks!
http://www.jenutech.com/futurama2.php