Weather Radar Case Mod

Bill Kendrick writes "What do you get when you take a laptop LCD, a Mini-ITX case and an old marine weather radar? A self contained wireless weather radar PC appliance!" And No, it's not just squeezing a motherboard into an object smaller than that motherboard -- this is a functional weather-watching device.

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Gag. APCMA

[wowbagger]

Gag. Another Pointless Case Mod Article.

Here I was, thinking that maybe this guy had done something truly nifty, like interfacing the marine radar to the computer and having it serve the radar images.

Here in Tornado Alley, such a thing would be pretty damn interesting - I know a couple of storm spotters who might just be persuaded to add that to their chase vehicles.

But no - all this guy did was put a PC in a Radar case, and use the PC to look at radar data from the Internet.

Now, had he fabricated a fake radar unit from sheet metal, that would have been somewhat interesting.

Had he gone whole-hog like the guy who did the HalfLife case mods - that would have been interesting.

But this?

Can I have the seconds of my life back I spent looking at the article?

May I suggest that /. create another section, pointlesscasemods.slashdot.org, and put these sort of things there?

Or at least a "Pointless Case Mod" icon?

I mean really - computers are getting to be like digital clock modules were in the 1980's - "Let's put them into everything! Here - let's put one in this banana!"