Borg Cube Case

Steelduck writes "A person nick-named Xor'Arch at the CaseJunkies forums has made an uber-cool case mod. A Borg cube based on a Via EPIA-M platform. The project took them 9 months, in which they spent 250 hours of their spare time. In total, they used about 60 meters of steel wire, and 1,5 m2 cardboard.The Borg Cube is presented at Casejunkies website. http://www.casejunkies.com/index.php?upn=010001&hl _id=1873"

Pretty neat.

[robslimo]

Normally, I don't case squat for these case mods, nor do I get too excited about Star Trek, but this time I've gotta hand it to them... that is a work of art!

Just irresponsible...

[GoNINzo]

I don't think the server is going to hold up under the pressure. I find it a little irresponsible to continue to link directly to forum entries on sites. It's one thing to cripple a site by sending 10,000 people to view their pictures, it's another to cripple the site by not even giving a static page as a link.

Not that anyone cares, though.

in 250 hours you could have...

[Astrorunner]

- flossed your teeth 3,000 times.
- Seen 166 movies (at 90 minutes each)
- ...but see Legolas kill the Olephant only 74.6 times
- driven from NY,NY to LA 5 times
- listened to 1/35064 of "Longplayer"
- watched 500 episodes of the simpsons, ~750 if you skipped the commercials.
- earned $1287.50 flipping burgers for minimum wage

Re: A lot of spare time

[cetan]

Instead you're wasting that time, a few minutes at a time, by browsing slashdot.

Which do you think is worse? :)

Re:I don't get it

[stratjakt]

Well, then, let me rephrase my question.

Why spend that much effort and time on a router/firewall box, and not a really cool uberPC to drag around to LANs and show off?

That would be like me spending a couple thousand dollars to have the sump pump in my basement custom painted.

Re: A lot of spare time

[Hormonal]

Perhaps he should have spent his 250 hours of spare time mindlessly gibbing in his Quake clan, eh? Would that have been a better use of his time?

Wow, nice bit of model making and 15 minutes.

[Gr8Apes]

That's a true bit of artistry. Kudos. As for a waste of time, what constructive thing have those stating it's a waste of time done with their last spare 250 hours? This guy at least has created something he likes, and gotten a good number of people to view and speak about.

He might even get more than his 15 minutes of pseudo fame out of it. Not shabby for a spare 250 hours of effort.

Re: A lot of spare time

[dswensen]

So if you had some spare time, you'd do something you enjoy.

Well, this guy does have spare time, and he's doing something he enjoys.

Why do we have to read this "this guy doesn't enjoy the same hobbies I do, so therefore he is wasting his time" nonsense every time anyone does anything? Get over yourself. Not everyone is interested in the same things you are.

250 hours... a perspective

[amyhughes]

The average American will watch 250 hours of television in about 2 months.

Oh, but we're all too cultured and intelligent to watch TV, right? My ass. There's too much pop culture knowledge represented here for me to believe that.

Okay, a few of us really don't watch TV. Okay, but 250 hours / 9 months is still less than an hour per day. How many of us can say we wasted less than an hour per day in this and other stupid forums? Is slashdot really more useful than doing creative projects?

I was on the receiving end of the "doesn't have a life" comments when my LEGO project was slashdotted. The most flippant of the comments came from those with 2900 posts showing in their user profiles on various forums. Wanna know what that looks like outside the cyberdork universe?

Amy