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Lego PC cases rule

posted by Duncan at 11:00 am on January 9th, 2005

This guy is a PC case modder and also a AFOL. He has built numerious cases all shown in this gallery. I prefer some of the new ones at the bottom of the page. I’m waiting for the lego monitor. mouse and keyboard next.

turn your old nintendo nes into a pc..

posted by Duncan at 9:37 am on December 2nd, 2003

What people think of. This tutorial is fantastic and goes through the step by step transformation of your old NES into a standard PC. It explains how/where to get the parts and then to install them. It even shows you have to use the original NES controllers. So you could effectively run a NES emulator on it and have a NES again !?

fancy a millenium falcon computer ?

posted by Duncan at 11:42 am on March 7th, 2003

These were the guys pre-requisites.The basic idea was to place a complete computer inside a toy/model of the
Millenium Falcon. He had several items that he decided he must
have:

  1. All components had to fit inside… all peripherials had to plug into the outside of the toy/model just like a real computer.
  2. The basic toy/model had to be painted acurately, within reason. This meant researching the models used in the movies and making a “best guess” as to the colors and spacing of some parts.
  3. The system must have a unique power light. This was accomplished via a special LED that flashes and fades through all the primary colors of light (red, green, and blue in a single LED)
  4. Through one of the “holes” in the hull, you must be able to see the inner workings of a real hard drive, preferably accented with blue electrical “sparks” when there was drive activity.
  5. It had to have hard drive activity lights placed into the front
    “headlights” of the Falcon. Working engine lights… need I say more?
  6. It had to have adaquate cooling…

NOW see the results

fancy building your own submarine?

posted by Duncan at 2:54 am on February 21st, 2003

PSUBS.ORG was created to promote and encourage the discussion, designing, building, certifiying, owning and use of personal submersibles. We define a personal submersible as any submarine vehicle (dry, semi-dry, wet, un-manned, one-man, two-man or more) that is owned and operated by individuals or small private groups or clubs. In general, a personal submersible is any underwater vehicle that can be owned by the public.


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