Caseless modding

[mdlbear]

sky_puter

look ma! no case!
This is what happens with a bored tech support guy and old parts.
It is suspended by cat5 for the main wires and cat3 for the little stuff.

Gizmodo calls it "the first caseless case mod we've seen", which means they haven't been around very long -- I've seen several, both suspended like this one, and wall-mounted. (And that's not even counting a long line of temporary desktop lash-ups at the Starport.) This particular mod raises the question of just how much of it actually gets used, as opposed to just being there because it's a traditional PC component.

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

*shrug* It'll likely run decently cool, but unless that's an Artic Cool fan and a quite PSU *and* disk, it's gonna be *noisy*...

And, yeah. We used to lay motherboards out on anti-static pads at AMI all the time. Whoopty-do. Suspending it from the ceiling is cute... but I think it'd work better on a wall...

[mdlbear]

"...work better on a wall..."

Yeah - you want vertical heat flow. I'd be inclined to use a nano-PSU and a fanless MB, myself...

[eleccham.livejournal.com]

Yeah. So why the hell are all the case designers still mounting the hard disks horizontally?

My favorite, though non-flashy, case mod is to use three 5.25" drive bays to mount four 3.5" disks in, sideways.

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

I saw it and all I could think is "Daddy, why is that computer all explodie?"
Sure is strange looking, but so long as it works.
And it can't be any noisier than the little shop computer Big Harold has next to me on the desk. Mine can be barely heard when it's on. His would wake the dead. Noisy fans. Ugh.

[mdlbear]

Those usually insist on having noisy fans anyway, usually top and bottom. I'd be inclined to spend the extra vertical space and put in nice, quiet 120mm fans.

Wireless Device?

[andyheninger.livejournal.com]

With the right software and antenna cables maybe this could be turned into a fine little FM transmitter. An entirely new class of Music Player.

Re: Wireless Device?

[mdlbear]

Software-defined radio is already making the FCC nervous.

The frequencies you need for FM are, perhaps, still a little high; AM is well within reach.

[kayshapero]

Oh.. my... (snicker). BTW - for some reason sky_puter1.jpg is refusing to show more than the top fourth of the picture, even if I try to download it all by itself. Is anybody else reporting this problem?

[kayshapero]

Never mind - it's Firefox doing something weird again. When I decided to save the lot to my system, I found that the picture itself actually downloaded and was sitting there innocently in the file. Plergb.

[mdlbear]

No, it's probably the Coral caching (implied by the ".nynud.net:8090" suffix on the domain name). It greatly reduces the load on a small site, but may take a while to load up if the the page hasn't been looked at recently.