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Here’s the second case design I’ve built around a mini-itx VIA EPIA 800
mainboard:
http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~pratt/brickcase/brickcase1.jpg
http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~pratt/brickcase/brickcase13.jpg
http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~pratt/brickcase/brickcase22.jpg
The BrickCase is entirely made of Lego bricks and uses no glue whatsoever (but
does make use of several nylon washers, nuts, bolts and miniature screws) and
houses a VIA EPIA 800 mainboard, hard drive and various pretty lights, currently
running Redhat 7.1. The top and sides of the case can be removed for
maintenance, and the mainboard is mounted to a system of Technic parts that
allows the mounting points to line up properly. The hard drive is swivel
mounted so that it can be positioned out of the way in order to get at the
interior of the case, without having to remove or disconnect the hard drive.
More pictures can be found at the BrickCase site.
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In lugnet.announce, Justin Pratt wrote:
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> The BrickCase is entirely made of Lego bricks and uses no glue whatsoever
Cool! 100% Lego bricks! :-)
> (but does make use of several nylon washers, nuts, bolts and miniature
> screws)
Oh. Not 100% Lego bricks! :-(
All kidding aside, it looks pretty good. It has a much better overall look than
most Lego cases I've seen on the Web. It looks like you had an idea of what it
should look like going in, rather than throwing a bunch of bricks together until
it made a box around your gear. Nice job.
But where did you get the Lego "biohazard" emblem??? :-)
James Wilson
Dallas, TX
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