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LAN Party Forums => General Discussion => Started by: b3ckkk on November 13, 2006, 08:48:43 AM

Title: On the lookout: Truck Case Dude Guy Person :)
Post by: b3ckkk on November 13, 2006, 08:48:43 AM

To the guy who I sat beside at the York Fites lan:

WHERE ARE YOU?

Anyways, I remember you said you built a computer case out of lego's.  
As a project for my computer class at York college, me and my group have decided to build a case out of lego's, too.

If you ever frequent these forums and would like to explain or give details to how or what you did, it would be appreciated.  

If anyone else who knows him or how to contact him (if he's never around here), he is the guy who also has the truck case.  I forget his name, but he lives in quakertown and went to penn state (I remember that much).

Thanks :)

Title: On the lookout: Truck Case Dude Guy Person :)
Post by: llDayo on November 13, 2006, 09:27:03 AM

Step 1: Buy legos.

Title: On the lookout: Truck Case Dude Guy Person :)
Post by: _!Rathe!_ on November 13, 2006, 09:31:27 AM

I found one site that has a how to on how 1 guy built a lego PC.  I don't think there is one way to do it or 1 easy way to do it.  I think you just need to get the legos and start building and seeing how you can do it.  Here is the link btw.

http://home.hawaii.rr.com/chowfamily/lego/

Title: On the lookout: Truck Case Dude Guy Person :)
Post by: Agent4054 on November 13, 2006, 10:34:05 AM

His forum handle is shadow. You could prolly send him a pm.

Title: On the lookout: Truck Case Dude Guy Person :)
Post by: cuzzNkev on November 13, 2006, 10:44:25 AM

His real name is Travis, and shadow is handle.

Title: On the lookout: Truck Case Dude Guy Person :)
Post by: Agent4054 on November 13, 2006, 11:25:42 AM

Quote from: "cuzznkev"

His real name is Travis, and shadow is handle.

*smack*

Title: On the lookout: Truck Case Dude Guy Person :)
Post by: Krurath108 on November 14, 2006, 05:57:42 PM

Good luck with the project man, post some pics!

Title: On the lookout: Truck Case Dude Guy Person :)
Post by: b3ckkk on November 14, 2006, 06:13:04 PM

Thanks guys.  I know there is more then one way possible, and i'm hoping to use that to make the case as unique as possible.  I wasn't sure if he had any pointers as to make it was simple as possible, any trouble's he came across or any way to stray from trouble.

We already have the lego's, and we are going to start working on it soon.  I will definitly post pictures at the end (if we finish it).

I'll give him a PM. Thanks :)

Title: On the lookout: Truck Case Dude Guy Person :)
Post by: -Sp()()ge- on November 17, 2006, 08:09:06 PM

here is some advise,

1. Buy more Legos

2. Watch your cooling. Remember you are designing the complete ventilation system.

3. Connector wires are your friend. Y-Splitters etc.

4.  Electric Tape (thats for you Dave)

5.  Place a rigid board under the case.

6.  Include one milion lights in the case (j/k)

7. If you have old bricks, use a method to glue them together.

8. BUY MORE LEGOS!!

This project will be costly if you want to make the case look good.  Using old bicks will give a look that the case was haphazrdly thrown together.  Even bricks of the same color will have different shades from their age and use.  Don't be afraid to take time experimenting a build.  I had torn parts of thecase down and rebuilt several times.

If you have any further questions, shoot.  Good Luck!

  :bigsmile:

Title: On the lookout: Truck Case Dude Guy Person :)
Post by: Dwg115 on November 20, 2006, 05:23:38 PM

you and that damned electric tape!!!!! I swear it's more a fetish for you then a requirment.

Title: On the lookout: Truck Case Dude Guy Person :)
Post by: The Shoctor on November 29, 2006, 02:04:38 PM

I just found this that might help! http://ldd.lego.com

EDIT: I forgot to add. After you design what you want there. You can actually send the plan to Lego and they will ship you the blocks you need and it will make building intructions!!

Title: On the lookout: Truck Case Dude Guy Person :)
Post by: b3ckkk on November 29, 2006, 10:13:19 PM

Quote from: "ShadoHawk"

I just found this that might help! [url]http://ldd.lego.com[/url]

EDIT: I forgot to add. After you design what you want there. You can actually send the plan to Lego and they will ship you the blocks you need and it will make building intructions!!

THATS AMAZING!  Should have seen it sooner.
But. . .We got it working anyways.  

I'm so proud of me and my 2 partners.  We told our prof. what we wanted to do, and he looked at us like "what..the..hell?"  No one had every tried it and he didn't know what to expect.

We decided to make it EVEN more difficult than just a "p.c. in a lego case."  We decided to put an X-Box AND Computer in the case.  We did it!

WOOT!

We ran out of lego's at the end - Go figure.  We used about 2600 Lego's.  We didn't have enough lego's to make a roof over it...brilliant idea.  "We didn't make a roof so you can see what we did!"

I'll post pictures of it soon, it looks ugly because of the color differences in the lego's.  Dumb partner got rainbow colors!   :headscratch:  Heh..  Our immature-selves had to put a penis on the side of the case. LOL.  We also made our college logo on the left side.  It looks awesome.  

www.ycp.edu

Its the white/green "Y".

The computer runs and the we played halo on the X-Box, I'm so impressed.  If we don't get an A+++ then everyone else should get F---!

Most other groups just tried to get "linux running on a computer, and play unreal tournament."  Soooo hard!

I'll post pictures soon!

Title: On the lookout: Truck Case Dude Guy Person :)
Post by: AXE on November 30, 2006, 03:02:32 PM

congrats on getting it done.