Comments on: LEGO Case mod

LEGO Case mod

XQUZYPHYR — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 15:42:11 -0800

LEGO case mod.

By: dreamsign

dreamsign — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 15:44:33 -0800

Oh man. This is not the first Lego case mod, but this is tremendously cool.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 15:48:26 -0800

too bad it's not Lego Mindstorms. Then the keyboard and mouse could be programmed to come when you call. or something.

By: fire&wings

fire&wings — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 15:52:20 -0800

I was ready to hate this, but it's incredible. Some of those Lego pieces take me back, the green tinted aircraft canopies on hinges...wow.

By: arto

arto — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:16:26 -0800

Some of Google's early servers ran Lego cases.

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:22:04 -0800

I remember this from a while back (I think from /.), and still see the same main problem: cooling. For instance, the windows behind the power supply fan are nift, but what's the point? Would you ever not want that airflow open? Yes, yes, anything Lego == cool, but this just isn't terribly well thought-out.

By: fenriq

fenriq — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:30:56 -0800

That was pretty neat. Not something I'd do as I'd expect Lego's melt pretty readily and some of those CPU's pump out the heat. But its cool looking and inventive, I like it!

By: plexiwatt

plexiwatt — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:33:56 -0800

One of the more hideous lego cases, I'm afraid. Good effort though, and I recommend that KB--looks cheap, but it's got great RF range.

By: blastrid

blastrid — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:45:31 -0800

Haha that's great... Reminds me of a bored night back in high school where we fashioned a smoking tool out of Legos. By the end of the night it had wheels, little guys, wings...Waay too much stuff to pass around easily. oh and it tasted like butt. but it was quite fun!

By: joegester

joegester — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:47:54 -0800

Those C3s run really very cool. Most of them dissipate less than 10 watts so melting wouldn't be a problem. I'd be worried about static though. Plastic like that isn't the best thing to mount a motherboard to.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 17:39:43 -0800

OMG nerdchubby! *swoon* See, that's a lego casemod. None of that wonky "I'm gonna build a huge dumb square box" or "I'm gonna just glue a skin of lego to an ATX case" crap. And I think it looks nifty, even without a good color coordination scheme and with all the random mixed era parts. You casemod with the lego you have. Somewhere towards the end of junior high and the beginning parts of High School I made a lego walkman case. Working tape door and transport, lego buttons, lego case made from a heat formed baseplate. People thought I was weird. I was just 15 years ahead of my time.

By: XQUZYPHYR

XQUZYPHYR — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 18:28:20 -0800

Not something I'd do as I'd expect Lego's melt pretty readily As a lifelong LEGO user, I've got to correct you here: while some smaller parts can snap and/or break, melting a lego is in fact very hard to do. Many times as a child LEGOs were boiled and/or put in the dishwasher after being discovered under a couch after 6 months, or dragged by Kitty into the litter box, etc. In fact, the only time I have ever seen a lego melt is when it was thrown into a fire. The bricks are nigh-invulnerable. LEGOS should be sent to our troops in Iraq to up-armor their humvees. (Do not taunt LEGO)

By: catachresoid

catachresoid — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 19:16:15 -0800

melting a lego is in fact very hard to do. Oh I don't know. Setting those bricks next to the campfire was pretty easy.

By: dsquid

dsquid — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 19:19:26 -0800

That mod was pug-ugly. Wires hanging out the back, mis-matched colors, little-to-no symmetry... Needs more work.

By: dejah420

dejah420 — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 19:45:45 -0800

People thought I was weird. -- loquacious Oh, angel pie, that had nothing to do with the lego walkman. ;)

By: wakko

wakko — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 20:05:26 -0800

I've seen better.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 21:43:39 -0800

Oh, angel pie, that had nothing to do with the lego walkman. ;) That's ok. I've got four more. Though I s'pose the screaming didn't help none, neither.

By: lazy-ville

lazy-ville — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:18:02 -0800

I think this is better than Dorian's Lego cases because this puts all those cool fiddly lego bits to good use. The doors and hatches covering connectors are a nice touch, as are the windows and using lego bits as grilles for ventilation. Dorian's lego cases are just boxes built out of Lego.

By: longbaugh

longbaugh — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:47:32 -0800

I spent the last week of the summer holiday with my boy at LEGOLAND in Windsor, absolutely the coolest place. We both loved it (he's five, I'm nigh on thirty) and barring all the flights to Heathrow overhead it was an excellent day with loads of great activities for all ages. If you are a big LEGO freak I'd strongly recommend visiting it or one of the other LEGOLAND theme parks worldwide. Plus, I got to buy loads of new LEGO dinosaurs and stuff. Yay! Kind of reminds me of this old classic...

By: dejah420

dejah420 — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 21:56:23 -0800

Wow, I'd forgotten about the lego desk story. Man, the good old dot.com days, when you could write your own insane job ticket. How I miss those days. :)