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Cool Cases: the Rust-Box
Obscura writes "Tired of reading about everyone else's cool case designs, I spent the weekend making the Rust-Box. I coated my case with a paint made of iron filings and then soaked it with a special solution that causes it to rust instantly. (yes, its sealed so your hands don't turn orange when you touch it)" Allright, thats pretty cool.
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There is something almost morbid about the way that site owners go out of their way to do cool stuff so the sites can end up on Slashdot - and in effect be killed right away.
It's sort of like a sacrifice society really, the highest honor we can attain is to be stomped to death by the masses.
Come to think of it, that is what our whole fame thing is about, both on and offline I guess.
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The paint I've been using for my Blackintosh is the Pacta Racing Finish by Testors. It's got an incredibly professional looking finish to it and it's rock solid once it dries. I painted my G3 from the inside of the translucent panels so that the outside would'nt have that icky painted feel, but I found that the paint was good enough to paint the apple logos on the outside. Their website seems to be having problems with ordering though. My last order hasn't come through, and it's been a couple weeks...
Yeah, I can see through this ploy. CmdrTaco bought some stock in a company that produces this "insta rust" stuff, then comes on /.and posts about how 'cool' it looks. After a good /. effect and a nice IPO, he's got millions in stock! mwa ha ha!
::chuckles:: Man, I guess you can buy just about anything if you look hard enough...
Serioulsy... what the heck else would you use "insta rust" for?
-Wiz
This brings up an excellent point. Why can't I get a cool looking case for my Wintel machine? I bought a tower case, painted it black, and marblized it, and did the same for my monitor. (Now that's a little tricky..) But how come I can't buy a funky case? Unless I buy an Apple of course.
I wonder what will be next. I'm waiting for an R2-D2-like case, or at least something that looks like The Matrix.
This sounds like a really great idea, but as the site seems to have been slashdotted into unavailability, I can't read about it.
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I made some silly 'cases' some time ago when putting together some scrapped 486's for friends.
1. A lego box. Yup, I stole the idea from Slashdot, but I didn't have the patience, nor the skill to build it from scratch - I simply glued the pieces onto the existing case. Looks great though, especially the sides that come from the Space station lego (grey lego that looks like the surface of the moon).
2. A Wooden box. I rescued a scrapped, non working 70'iesTV set and took the sides from it and glued onto the case. The front of the case (a midi tower one) is covered by the black plastic panel from the TV. Looks great and the computer is so silent you can't tell it's on.
3. A case made of used plastic ice cream boxes and a plastic washing tub. Not a great idea. My friend's girlfriend didn't recognize it as a computer, so she almost threw it away - she thought it was trash ("An old washing tub filles with cables").
Anyway, customizing your computer is FUN.
Kids, do try this at home!
L-ViS
Is the Yeoung Yang Cube Server in the balck color, just got mine and it is now known as the Borg. Big, beautiful, black, lots of room, and it makes an excellent foot rest. More pictures at www.caseoutlet.com
(B) + (D) + (B) + (D) = (K) + (&)
Is it a copyright violation to put a SQUID server?
Effectively it's a mirror, but since it's all in some strange program's cache, who could say anything?
I shared your picture with a friend.
;-)
His responce:
"what a useless place for the cd-rom. it should clearly be taped to the monitor"
:-)
ROTFL, but then I have several "caseless" computers around
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I built a case out of legos too. But I built the whole case, so it's "custom-fit" to the size of the components. Actually, a friend and I built it for him to save money. We spent about $20 on legos, so we saved a couple of bucks and ended up with a far cooler case. Click on the link in my header or go to http://www.newfolden.k12.mn.us/legopc
Photos of bits of the past hiding in the present: afiler.com
The books are primarily aimed at home decoration, but they touch on painting various surfaces: metal, plastic, etc. As such, the books should be applicable to computer case painting.
I have one here, Paint Recipes by Liz Wagstaff. ISBN 0-8118-1173-5. Listed at Amazon.
I did a rust case a while back, albeit accedentally. Phosphoric acid solution on the plate next to the computer case hyperboiled and sprayed the case.. Looked even cooler after a week, when the incorrectly neutralized acid ate holes in the case.. Another good one I've done is the wall-mounted Beowolf. Twelve wall-mounted P100s.. Used nylon bearings as spacers and screwed the bugger up with drywall screws.. I currently have one system that consists of a Baby-AT and a dinky power supply mounted inside a Mead Data Systems 300 baud modem.. People look at me queerly when they see it on the desk next to the Olivetti Xenix box I have.. However the best one I've ever seen was made out of a discarded 8-track player.. The fellow fit an ATX MB inside while managing to keep the 8-track functional..
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Well, yaknow, I'd pretty much consider myself a "true geek", and honestly most of my cases don't have screws in them. Actually, half of them are partially disassembled.
But, you know what, last time i went to build a computer from scratch, I looked around the lab, and i realized i had 4 full tower cases that were uniformly big, uniformly unweildy when i needed to carry them around, and generally louder than i needed them to be.
More research needs to be done on what models of muffin fans make acceptable low-noise replacements for different heating loads. I'm not the least bit convinced that PC Power & Cooling deserves any of my hard earned money for putting what's probably a $10 fan in a $30 power supply and charging $90.
But looks i can do something about.
I wouldn't say the case i settled on would win any awards. it's merely short, chubby, and has pleasing curves. the first reaction i got was "That's not a computer, that's a pet"
That's more or less what I wanted. I embedded a temperature readout in the front, stuck one of those penguin stickers in the badge area, and was done with it. I really like it.
The case cost me all of $28. I'd provide a url but i can't find the thing online. The side panels slide off, the motherboard plate is removable, the drive cage and power supply snap in and out. the metal is pretty thin, but the edges are rolled so there's no cuts on my hands from messing with it.
There's a lot to be said for brute force technology. I'll leave that at work, in the rack, where it belongs. Some times you just want to have something that works and stays put.
I'm currently looking for what i might be able to put together to be good looking, durable, and portable. A computer that doesn't look like a computer, that i can carry under my arm comfortably.
For that matter, I'd also kill for a 2-unit-high rack mount case for under $300 that doesn't look like crap. NLX formfactor would be perfect. I've found a supplier, but the cases are one-offs and cost $700+ each. No way I'm going there. And don't send me links to penguin computing either, their markup on that 2ru system is amazing, and i think they get the cases from the same guy.
This is just like television, only you can see much further.
Heehee... we played with thermite in Chemistry class in high school (my Chemistry teacher may not have been entirely sane). We mixed up about a quarter inch of the stuff in the bottom of a tuna can and set it off in one of the parking lots in the pouring rain. It was pretty impressive... when the magnesium burned down and the thermite went up, I could feel the wave of heat hit from fifteen feet away. Then the parking lot caught on fire and smoldered for quite a while despite the rain. What was left when it was all over was a misshapen lump of iron and ruby (yeah, that's what aluminum oxide is... if hot enough to melt iron isn't impressive, how about hot enough to melt ruby?).
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these aren't real wood cases, they're more like a veneer. Unusual looking though
http://wood.rwebsite.com/main.html
I believe /. had a blurb on this earlier. I remember noting that it looked like an old Monorail system. :)
The problem is that this gets into all sorts of pesky copyright issues. Considering how heated up some people are getting over just the notion of "deep linking," actually copying someone else's site for public access opens up a whole 'nother can of legal worms.
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That is why you do not copy, but just merely cache, which has so far stood up legal muster, since most ISP's do it in one way or another, especially AOL, so there is a precedent for such....all you need is squid running on a box, and people just go throught that proxy, and it is all legal...or as legal as it needs to be in todays environment...since cache is non-permanent, and will be discarted once out of date, or when it is no longer desired by the clients connecting to the proxy server. :>>--
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