Lego case

[GRIMLOCKE]

I recently completed a project for a Lego case for my MEDIA pc.

I posted it on another board and some people mentioned that it might garner some interest here, I figured that I need more ego bolstering so here goes...

The pictures are on a crappy pre-generated page that I threw up from adobe:

http://www.tattoosbyjorge.com/users/grimlocke/SA/lego/

All the parts were stripped from a 1.1 gig Compaq that I got after upgrading a friends machine. The hard drive was stripped from another older HP and the Video card was purchased separately for the project.
All told it took about 1700 pieces total. I ran out about half way through and was forced to purchase another 1200 piece tub. When I started I figured that random piece placement was the best way to progress.
If I had known I was going to have to buy more pieces I would have gone with a color scheme.
Most of the pieces are free locked (not glued). I only used glue on the front USB port housing and the pieces that hold the motherboard in place, to reduce possible breakage. I felt that gluing the whole thing was cheating.
With all that said it is REALLY sturdy. I made sure that every piece was connected to another, Brick wall style. There are only a handful of places where that was not possible (the ghost for example).
I left the HDD and the PSU exposed to reduce heat build up as I didn't want to add any fans. The inside of the case gets air from three different holes, one in the mouth of Pac-Man and the other two in the skirts of the ghost. So far it has not come anywhere near overheating.
The system can be controlled with the wireless keyboard mouse that I keep on the end table. Or from any of the computers on the house network through Tight VNC.

All in all I am more then pleased with the results.
Sooo...any questions feel free to ask, and please suggestions are more then welcome.

Specs:
AMD athalon 1.1
Random Compaq motherboard
40 gig western digital (HP) HDD
2x misc. 256 SDram
300 watt Compaq PSU
Geforce 4 MX440 PCI 128
6 USB 4 back/2 front
3com 10/100 generic PCI nic

Next up on the block, THE RECLINER.

 

[Mekanic01]

LEGOS!!!!!

Cool!

 

[TSx]

Just the other day I started plans for a lego case, a desktop though, not a tower. The few main problems I've encountered were how to mount the power button and the front led's since I really have never messed with modding those, and how to make a lid. I want it to be very sturdy, enough so that I could put a ~50lbs monitor on top of it. As of right now I'm still trying to figure out how to do that without creating a lot of pillars that would hurt airflow. A few people suggested just using some plastic or metal or something and a row over the top of it, but that's sort of cheating in my opinion.

 

[Protius_h]

TSx here is something i learnt with lego although totally off subject there was a project to bulid a bridge from lego use as lil blocks as possible ie cheapest and yet hold the weight required a group discovered that the strongest was not to put block on block on block and run a car across the top but to put block on block ie brick laying style and then turn it so that the lego was on its side found that it was the best to hold weight as the blocks ended up pushing on each other