DIY Concrete Keyboard

I doubt they have to worry about someone stealing it :p

Three things about concrete: It's heavy, it cracks, and nobody is going to steal it.
 
Haha! Coming soon, headlines that read: Concrete case mod or concrete LCD monitor setup guide.
 
I'm holding out for a concrete mouse and gamepad. Maybe a concrete light-pen.
 
Concrete is fairly porous...how is this thing going to look after absorbing oils from your palms for a few months?
 
I shudder when I think of the chunk that thing would take out of my hardwood floor if I ever dropped it.
 
I doubt he's carrying it around too often.
Though I gotta say, my wrists are already screaming. From the pad not the weight, looks like half a bag of concrete (seems more like a fine mortar then concrete aggregate).

natos said:
Hope none of the keys malfunction or stop workin......
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No pictures of underneath, so I'd imagine it's open

Monkey34 said:
could it get any thicker and bulkier?
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Yes.
 
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Hey, I have a bunch of those cement block in my flower bed. They are stepping stones. Why didn't I think of using one as a keyboard case.
Hmm, Maybe because I'm not insane? o_O
 
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Finally an alternative to the overpriced, low quality mass produced concrete keyboards!
 
Heh. Try smashing that on your table after a shitty MP session. And even if you did the table is most likely history after that, which might be cathartic in its own way now that I think about it.
 
Guy gets wheeled into the emergency room with five (5) broken toes because he dropped this keyboard on his foot.
 
Bandalo said:
Concrete is fairly porous...how is this thing going to look after absorbing oils from your palms for a few months?
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You are giving this guy too much credit if you think that oil from his hands will be the biggest source of filth. :p
 
hardboner said:
why.....
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Because it was there. Because he could. My friend once built a pretty high-end gaming PC into a cardboard box from a Plextor 40X SCSI CD ROM for the same reason. He took a lot of time and effort to make precision cut-outs, even spaced the ATX back-plane correctly for card slots, IO sub-panel, etc. The CD Drive was mounted flush with the front. This was in the late 90s. It was a dual Celeron 300A (OCed to 450/500 each of course) a bunch of RAM, GeForce Pro or whatever the DDR version of the GeForce 256 was, etc.

Did he need to do this? Nope. He had a more typical system at home, but he used this to haul over to my place for LAN parties. It was totally cool, just because of how absurd it was.

I think you have to view this sort of thing more from a creative or artistic point of view (even though a bit of engineering is involved) rather than as some highly useful marvel of engineering or design.
 
Now we just need a stone hollowed out and a tablet inserted into it. Fuck yea bitches! This be biblical times yo!
 
Nintendo saw this and has finally decided to top the Virtual Boy by releasing a concrete VR headset.
 
he could at least have gone to the trouble to make it look good. Add some design to the concrete, color, anything. As it is it looks like shit.
 
It looks like a Walmart keyboard and a paving stone made a butt baby.
 
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