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!

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Translated Webpage

[TripMaster Monkey]

In the interest of promoting more enlightened discussion, a translated version of the webpage can be found here.

Re:Translated Webpage

[TripMaster Monkey]

OK...I challenge you to find a better one.

Norwegian-to-English translators are rather difficult to find.

Re:Translated Webpage

[ABaumann]

Why don't we just create our own Bender PC? ...with blackjack, and hookers. In fact, forget the PC.

Re:Translated Webpage

[k98sven]

OK...I challenge you to find a better one.

Ok then. A quick and dirty human translation follows.

Norwegian-to-English translators are rather difficult to find.

I don't think so. :) Of course, I know norwegian.

[first page]
Not all our worklogs are boring boxes and water-cooling. Now, the constructor of the TUX-cabinet hits us with the Futurama-character Bender in full scale.

Bizardo's project is one of the few truely original parts of our worklog-division and is something which definitely can be called "one of a kind".

Those of us at Overklokking.no have chosen to highlight Bizardo's project due to its originality and execution. The project should be an insipration to anyone wanting something other than a standard box.

The following article is writtne by Bizardo himself, where he choses to present his Project Bender. Those of us at Overklokking.no are grateful for him sharing it with us, and hope to see more of his work later.

[second page]

Foreword
After finishing my TUX project, I just had to do something new.. I thought about what to do for months and had several good ideas, but finally I fell for Bender :D I've always been a big Futurama fan and I was 100% certain I'd be able to do this, dispite how much time and money I'd spend. I would never have been able to finish this project if I hadn't had help from my friends: Einhar Flå - welding, Geir Gravem - math genius who calculated angles and proportions. So a big thanks to these guys. :)

Planning

How big was it going to be? And how to fit it all together? This needed to be thought through and I figured out that I could first build a full-figure paper figure first, and then make all the mistakes I wanted without wasting time and sheet-metal.

This was used in the project:
* 1 Slim slotload DVD ROM/CD-burner from Carputer.no
* 1 VIA EPIA-M 10000 Mini-ITX motherboard
* WLAN-kort with antenna
* 2 10 watt light-bulbs (12volt)
* 1 120 GB harddisk + 4 external 250 GB disks on firewire
* Metal ducts (for feet and hands)
* 3 Metal kitchen-bowls from Coop (for the top of the head, and legs)
* 4-5 paper sheets
* 3 0,7 mm pieces of steel sheet-metal
* 1 Digital voice recorder from Produkt 24

After playing with different 3d programs I managed to print this 3D-model. I used it as a blueprint where I filled in the measurements for size, and so on.

And so the work with the paper-figure started, calculating angles, finding the correct proportions, etc.

There, we have a paper-figure, very crooked and stuff. With this paper figure all we have to do is spread out the sheets of paper on the sheet-metal and use them as a template :). Now when all templates and parts we need are finished, we can start building. :D

[third page]

Building Bender

The eyes used are 10 watt halogen bulbs running on 12 volts, wired to the PSU :). Since these are only 10 watts and wired serially, they don't get very warm and don't use much power.

Then it was time to start with Bender's body. Started with taking out the paper-model and putting it on the sheet-metal for marking:

Then the cutting began.

The sheet-metal was cut, rolled until completely round and then welded together.

At last Bender was taking shape, but just the same a lot of work remained.

And then there was Bender's head:

A lot of people thought the head would be a problem considering that the top of the head is round. But it wasn't. Coop [Norwegian co-op supermarket] has metal kitchen bowls. These bowls had just the right diameter and everything, talk about luck :D

Now when the head is finished it has to be mounted on the body and holes have to be cut for the doors

I thought...

[sammykrupa]

Bender only liked Jazz Disks? CDs are a bit to flakey.

Re:I thought...

[stretch0611]

Bender only liked Jazz Disks? CDs are a bit to flakey.

During benders upgrade (for 1x compatibility) he pulled out his favorite desert island discs to play. They were cds. However, If I know Bender he burned them himself from Nappster(intentional spelling) and the RIAA is trying to sue him.

Important Question

[CleverNickedName]

Does it have a shiny, metal ass?

Re:Important Question

[October_30th]

Can I brew beer in it?

Re:Important Question

[FidelCatsro]

you may not Bite my shiny metal case .
Though if i see one of these , i may be tempted to commit the cool cool crime of burglary.

Re:Important Question

[Nos.]

I believe its "Bite" my shiny metal ass, not kiss.

Re:Important Question

[Olix]

This was also in PC Gamer issue 148 - the may edition. Some guy made it and send it in for a competition. He won, by the way.

mirror of full article

[winkydink]

Full mirror here, but it's still in Norwegian.

Re:mirror of full article

[MouseR]

Can someone mirror that mirror?

(Sheesh!)

Re:mirror of full article

[Mike1024]

Also, Coral Cache, in case no-one has submitted it yet.

Den ene knappen er powerknapp, den andre er Bender voice knapp "Bite My Shiny Metal Ass"

I don't know what that line of the article means, but I'm making it my IRC quit anyway.

Michael

Re:mirror of full article

[grazzy]

One of the buttons is the powerbutton, the other is a button for Bender-voice "Bite my shiny metal ass".

Lousy translation, but its the geist of it.

Re:mirror of full article

[kyojin the clown]

you miserable bastard. the guy mirrors articles for the benefit of the community at large, and you call him a "karma whore"?

Because of course everyone is just desperate for karma, i know i personally wouldn't even get out of bed if i wasn't going to earn slashdot karma for it - its a big part of my life.

Re:mirror of full article

[itchy92]

I'd mod you up, but I'm afraid that might be ironic...

Re:mirror of full article

[winkydink]

No worries. Sorry I missed the first real slashdotting of the server. Kind of like missing losing one's virginity. :)

So which is it?

[Jeff Hornby]

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.

Re:So which is it?

[crimoid]

> these guys need to get a life

For some, this is their life. Who are we to judge?

Re:So which is it?

[kfg]

Life is basically a process of wasting time until you die, so you might as well enjoy the time "wasted."

KFG

Re:So which is it?

[SethJohnson]

a part of me says these guys need to get a life.

Sometimes I wonder what people mean by this phrase. "get a life"-- what does one need to do to qualify as having a life? I'm assuming that this is the stereotypical checklist for those seeking a life:

• Job
• spouse
• house
• 401K plan
• kids

People like Jeff Hornby (no flame intended for the parent poster) must look at these Norwegians and assume that they're not sufficiently burdened by the items on this list such that they have free time to pursue hobby activities like this casemod. Perhaps when people say, "get a life," it's out of jealousy from the perspective of someone who feels bogged down by their own life and they wish for others to become similarly restrained.

I personally think all of our lives would be less interesting if everyone had "a life."

Hmmm looks like

[darkmayo]

The servers shiny metal ass is on fire... when you get linked you know your gonna "Fry"

I'm sure Bender would love you meatbags...

[Anonymous Coward]

...shoving your filthy monkey data into his mouth.

Re:Mirrors where?

[richy freeway]

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.

Re:I think it will want...

[IAmTheDave]

Now a Bender Kegerator - THAT's more true to the Bender character I know...

As long as it burped fire after it filled my red plastic cup with cheap beer.

It's the ad server that melted

[Edgewize]

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.

Bender Is Very High-Tech

[LegendOfLink]

Bender: He's gay.

Leela: How do you know?

Bender: I have this thing called gaydar.

As if slashdotting a server once isn't enough!!

[licamell]

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.

Awsome

[janek78]

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!

Bender made his debut

[EvilNutSack]

here
I think...

Disks?

[keesh]

"I don't like having disks crammed into me... unless they're Oreos, and then only in the mouth."

Pictures of the casemod

[bad_outlook]

Since the site is heavily slashdoted, here is the page with pictures of the final result, very cool!

http://overklokking.no/art.php?artikkelid=14773&si de=4

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how to get in

[the_Bionic_lemming]

if you're running firefox with adblock - add a block for ad1.hardware.no/*

That's what's been slasdotted - not the site.

Pic here

[ayeco]

Toms Hardware has a pic of it.

Printable page

[dema]

The "printable page" version is ad free and still loading quickly. Hurry (:

http://overklokking.no/print.php?artikkelid=14773

Silly Norweigans! Bender's not a PC!

[edremy]

Any true Futurama fan knows that Bender has a 6502 CPU. Just point the f-ray at his head to prove it.

Glug, glug

[nametaken]

So uh, will my case rust if I DON'T pour beer in it?

Upskirt?

[Andrewkov]

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".

What an awesome MythTV case

[stuver]

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."

Saw this about a week ago....

[rathehun]

....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.

hee hee

[mattyrobinson69]

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 :(.

Image mirror

[hairykrishna]

The server's down so here's a page with the images on:

http://www.hairykrishna.f2s.com/bender.html

One of the best case mods I've seen.

Site slashdotted - article text below

[Anonymous Coward]

I fully expect to be modded +5, Informative for this ;)

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 :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 :)

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 :). Nï½ som alle malene og delene vi trenger, er pï½ plass, sï½ kan byggingen begynne :D

Byggingen av Bender

Øynene som brukes er 10 watt halogenpærer som går på 12 volt, og kobles til psu-en :). 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.

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

Re:Site slashdotted - article text below

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey moderators! Please read before modding up! Didn't you see where he inserted the phrase "ned på de listene"? You know that wasn't in the original text, and most likely translates to "you mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!" For the love of Jeebus, please read the original before modding! Think of the children!

Slåshdøtted

[macmastery]

Yer wéb sêrver hås been eåten by a Møøse!

Re:Silly Norweigans! Bender's not a PC!

[stretch0611]

Any true Futurama fan knows that Bender has a 6502 CPU

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.

Funny line

[i41Overlord]

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

ID correct?

[93 Escort Wagon]

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.

Excellent but two issues

[hotspotbloc]

1. He needs to be holding a bottle of "Olde Fortran Malt Liquor"

2. Fire needs to come out the exhaust fan port.

Not bad for meatbags though. =)

just a little touchy, aren't we?

[sweatyboatman]

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.

is it me

[mcb]

or is this a bottle of norwegian surge? http://fora.zaatar.org/ravi/bender/print.php_files /hand.jpg

Re:To be true to Futurama...

[The name is Dave. Ja]

...or better yet, AOL diskettes.

i'm the creator of bender casemod

[Bizardo]

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 :)

Re:i'm the creator of bender casemod

[Bizardo]

The Bender casemod page in english is now released :D http://www.wymenfan.com/bender/