Case from Legos [Archive] - Overclockers Forums

FrozenInHI

01-19-02, 01:01 PM

you'll need to mount some standoffs for the mobo mounting, should be real easy though, just get some standoffs from your existing case or buy some from a good electronics parts store. you'll also need drive mounting stuff as well. I'm not so sure it will work well without a chassis ground of some sort though. there's someone out there with a lego case and pics, but if i remember right, i think he used the inside chassis of a regular case and mobo tray, just built the legos around that.

BinarySuperman

01-19-02, 02:11 PM

man i was thnking about doing that a long time ago. i would love to see it.

pogue1000

01-19-02, 02:32 PM

that would be cool ;)
a lot of legos too

good luck.. keep us updated!!1

Rezman5

01-19-02, 03:35 PM

Well, I have worked on it for about 2 hours now. My hands are almost bleeding! Right now I am taking time out to watch the eagles game. If anyone has any legos they want to contribute to this project, please PM me and let me know.

VashTheStampede

01-19-02, 04:10 PM

Originally posted by Rezman5
Well, I have worked on it for about 2 hours now. My hands are almost bleeding! Right now I am taking time out to watch the eagles game. If anyone has any legos they want to contribute to this project, please PM me and let me know.

Here's your window mod :D :D

http://www.lego.com/bulk/images/1x4x5blackwindowframe.gif

http://www.lego.com/bulk/default.asp

Bulk ordering of Legos.

~Vash~

pogue1000

01-19-02, 04:29 PM

now i got a chuckle out of that very funny hehe

hey.. u know when we were kids we could play with these for hours.... hope u didnt steal any kids legos :)

Originally posted by VashTheStampede

Here's your window mod :D :D

http://www.lego.com/bulk/images/1x4x5blackwindowframe.gif

http://www.lego.com/bulk/default.asp

Bulk ordering of Legos.

~Vash~

pogue1000

01-19-02, 04:30 PM

you should glue these together or something to make them more stable....... tthat would be cool.

maybe u should start over :)

Rezman5

01-19-02, 04:57 PM

I will not start over. It took like 1.5 hours just to get the outline done with specific measurements taken from my Lain-Li case. I am thinking of just using the removable motherboard tray in the Lego case. If I would get a bunch of those window things...you might be on to something. Anyway, PM me for donating legos. I am 15 and still have my legos from when I was a kid, but almost used all of them already. I might coat the whole thing in some kind of clear glue...and sell it in the classifieds or something.

VashTheStampede

01-19-02, 05:04 PM

Unfortunately I donated all my Legos, and Lego "Briefcase" carrier, to GoodWill about 4 years ago.

I do remember there was an alternative to Legos back when I was a kid, called Connectix? Something along those lines. You connected the pieces together via a little cube piece with connectors on each face of the cube. Now there is a real challenge in making a PC :)

What are you going to use to hold the PSU up? That sucker is a little heavy for non-glued Legos.

~Vash~

pogue1000

01-19-02, 05:12 PM

"I might coat the whole thing in some kind of clear glue...and sell it in the classifieds or something."

well at least assemby isnt required :)

very cool you are 15 and using your mind.
and they say all young kids do are drugs these days :)

Oni

01-19-02, 05:50 PM

I saw one lego case a long time ago that had both the AMD logo and the Asus logo lego-ed into the side. That was real cool! You could do something like that w/ your case!

JFettig

01-19-02, 06:12 PM

yea im 16 and almost done with my watercooling project, all homemade!

about all the kids doing drugs, its mostly true actually!
but i dont, id say about half or more do or have done weed....

Athlonman

01-19-02, 06:27 PM

Yeah I am 15 Also And I own My own Computer Biz

Rezman5

01-19-02, 06:36 PM

I would make an AMD sign out of legos, but don't have the right colors nor do I have enough legos to work with. I havn't gotten any PMs for anyone wanting to send me legos. Any ideas on a clear glue I can use? Any help (parts or ideas) would be appreciated!

Shadow ÒÓ

01-19-02, 06:52 PM

sounds like an aswsome case! Make sure to post pictures.

I would think a typical hot glue gun would work fine as an adheasive.

JFettig

01-19-02, 06:54 PM

well i pretty much own my own computer biz....basicly iv built some computers and done some upgrades for other people....

Rezman5

01-19-02, 06:57 PM

New announcements on more needs. I relized that I am going to need a way to turn it on. If you have any spare power bottons, reset bottons, little speaker that beeps, and LCDs from old cases...please PM me. thank you ahead of time for all the parts I am asking for!!!

xdroorsx

01-19-02, 07:02 PM

i'm 21, at school, live at home over breaks, and my parents still tell me i'm a waste. what's your secret? :beer:

LOL :D

MechCD

01-19-02, 07:47 PM

Originally posted by Rezman5
power bottons, reset bottons, little speaker that beeps, and LCDs [/B]

For the LEDs, you could get a techinic brick and stick the LEDs in that :D:D:D

Rezman5

01-19-02, 09:45 PM

Here is the case as of now. The front view

Rezman5

01-19-02, 09:46 PM

This thing looks SOOO bad, but still, it is fun. Nothing like playing with Legos. Here is the side view.

Dissolved

01-20-02, 03:43 AM

ohhhhhhh

and i thought i seen it alll.....

freaking logos!!!!!

i had so many of those darn things... i threw them all away one day cuz my garage was too full... and i almost cryed when i did... thinking about all those hours and hours of fun those brough me... errrrr

i wasted so much...

but neways why dont you look on ebay, ask ppl, and even see if you can get some from the good will?

im sure ulll get enough in a week or too :)

good job tho... thats one of the most creative idea's ive seen yet

Rezman5

01-20-02, 08:46 AM

Well, to cut down on the use and need of legos, I am going to Home Depot to get some plexiclass, so the side and top will have windows. I think this case will look pretty good when it is done. Also, I am going to use the legos with holes in them as a fan grill.

pogue1000

01-20-02, 09:19 AM

looks cool

hey u could mount some of those lil figurine lego sets on top or something.

very neat idea!
so what are the specs of your pc gonna be?

Rezman5

01-20-02, 10:20 AM

I am going to build my bro a computer and put it inside. For now I will be using an old Pentium II 300Mhz in there. Then when he gets money, he will get himself a proper computer...one with AMD inside!

Jeff Bolton

01-20-02, 10:32 AM

when you are done you should try to paint it so you can still tell it is legos but it doesn't look so haphazard with all the different color. who knows?

jeff

Rezman5

01-20-02, 10:51 AM

But the colors are the beauty of it all, lol.

Jeff Bolton

01-20-02, 11:02 AM

true. now that i think about it, nothing that i ever built with legos was color coordinated, lol :p

jeff

FrozenInHI

01-20-02, 11:56 AM

find a garage sale or two, or 50, they have legos in them all the time, I should know, my mom sold my set of like 10000 or something, we built a small fort with them when i was a kid, took a month to put together! lol, and she sold them for 25bucks! must've been 200 bucks worth of legos!

Rezman5

01-20-02, 05:20 PM

Anyone have legos for me???????

JFettig

01-20-02, 05:53 PM

with the amount of legos i have...i bet i could build this case and have it done by tonite! lol, but sorry i cant send them, because they are going to my little cousins :(

Rezman5

01-20-02, 08:16 PM

Damn, I really need more. Do you think you could put a 100 off to the side or something???

JFettig

01-20-02, 08:38 PM

hmmm... its hard to give away toys....lol
maby i could, how soon do you need them by if i do decide to depart from them?

cyberey66

01-21-02, 01:19 AM

Dude i just had that idea of building a lego case. I was thinking if I ever do get a new mobo I would have parts for 2 computers, and the idea of a lego case came into my head. It was either a lego case or just slightly modding my compaq deskpro 486 case. I had a whole bunch of legos, but I think I threw them out. Hey that's gonna be a cool case. If I do get a new mobo I still might go for that. Either that or just try to find a weird case. Accually I have an "old school" sterio I was looking at putting a comp in.

Morbid

01-21-02, 01:21 AM

Anyone ever thought about making a case that supported 2 full computers? Would be kind of weird :D

drowned

01-21-02, 01:47 AM

Anyone ever thought about making a case that supported 2 full computers? Would be kind of weird

my neighbor and I did this very recently. He bought one of those big craftsman tool chests from sears (stands about three and a half feet high, two feet wide, and a foot deep), with a few drawers and a bottom compartment. We installed two motherboards onto the base of the lower compartment, and hung all the drives from a metal bar above them. The chest is big enough so that two monitors can sit side by side on top of it. We're gonna send some pictures to virtual-hideout soon, I'll post a link if anyone cares to see it.

Morbid

01-21-02, 02:01 AM

sweet! post away! i'd love to see them... perhaps start a new thread so other peple can see "2 computers - 1 case" :D

Ridenow

01-21-02, 01:21 PM

In the past the Lego company has been very supportive of modelers and sculpters. I have heard of people contacting the company and explaining what they wanted to build. Lego sold them what ever they wanted for the sculpture at a discounted rate. I have also heard that sometimes they will buy Lego sculptures.

Rezman5

01-21-02, 01:33 PM

THanks for the info...I think I need to write an Email now

CrystalMethod

01-22-02, 12:17 AM

Originally posted by maskedgeek
with the amount of legos i have...i bet i could build this case and have it done by tonite! lol, but sorry i cant send them, because they are going to my little cousins :(

Same here, but they went last year... :(
...Sorry dude. I'll look around in the garage, but I think I cleaned out all of them. It was really hard letting them go.

...I miss my Lego. :(

h20link

01-22-02, 01:46 AM

there's a lego sculpture guy who built lego mac but i couldn't find his site, but i did find this:

http://people.netscape.com/toms/cubicle/computer/tower-old-01.jpg

of course if he likes netscape how smart could he possibly be?

BinarySuperman

01-22-02, 02:07 AM

what a cheap mod, all he did was build a box around the case, here is his site http://people.netscape.com/toms/cubicle/computer/

BinarySuperman

01-22-02, 02:11 AM

wow this guy actually did it.
http://www.woo.nu/lego/photos.html

Dissolved

01-22-02, 06:08 AM

Originally posted by h20link
there's a lego sculpture guy who built lego mac but i couldn't find his site, but i did find this:

of course if he likes netscape how smart could he possibly be?

thats still awesome looking tho :)

KeyboardCowboy

01-22-02, 01:06 PM

Originally posted by pogue1000
"I might coat the whole thing in some kind of clear glue...and sell it in the classifieds or something."

well at least assemby isnt required :)

very cool you are 15 and using your mind.
and they say all young kids do are drugs these days :)

i take offense to that

pogue1000

01-23-02, 05:13 PM

Originally posted by KeyboardCowboy

i take offense to that

????????????
you take offense to what?
that i said it was cool this young guy was doing something good and brainstorming, when all you hear is about bad things bout how all those youngs all they do is drink and do drugs

bravo to all the younger generation and working there mind!
i dig that!

Rezman5

01-23-02, 07:00 PM

Well, I ordered some imitation Legos from Ebay, and I hope they will get here soon and work with the Legos that I have already used. I will keep you updated on the status. so far I have added a reset button, and a creative fan grill

PhoenixMDM

01-24-02, 06:00 PM

Aww man, i got tons of legos, they're somewhere in the basement stored away!! And that alternative lego thing was called Construx, but they weren't real popular if i remember right...

Of course, everyone knows that Knex are the best!! :p
I built a fully working wrist-crossbow out of Knex just about a month ago, shoots paper clips bent at 90deg angles really accurate to about 125 feet. Wonder if it's still in my closet...

mikester

01-27-02, 07:46 PM

lets see some more pics!

this is interesting!

JFettig

01-27-02, 08:07 PM

I should build a k-nex case! except it wouldnt be sealed at all, but that wouldnt matter? and it would suck to mount stuff....but it couldwork!probably need to make some modifications

Rezman5

01-27-02, 08:34 PM

OK, I have most of the front built. I just am waiting for more legos I ordered from Ebay. I will also need to get some plexi glass for a top and side window! This is going to be the best case ever!

JFettig

01-27-02, 09:03 PM

awesome, thats a great idea! make it out of k-nex and cover it with plexi!!!! your smart! well lol that didnt eaven come from you but i got that idea from you! hehehe thats really cool!

RnPgrosz

01-27-02, 09:34 PM

if your having trouble holding the psu up or the drives you could try duplos(big legos) for even smaller kids. They are much bigger than normal legos.

Rezman5

01-28-02, 12:13 PM

I took out an old mobo holder and some 5.25" and 3.5" from an old computer to put on the inside so I can screw the drives in. I have them resting on legos. The hardest will be shaping the back to fit the mobo!

ThePunkGeek

01-29-02, 04:12 PM

Originally posted by Rezman5
This thing looks SOOO bad, but still, it is fun. Nothing like playing with Legos. Here is the side view.

Your gonna paint it right?

Cypher720

01-29-02, 05:28 PM

if you paint it, then whats the point of using legos????? it is a crazy case, and is realllllly ugly. its got so many different colors, it is eye-catching. i am good friends with Rezman5, and it is a cool case.

AgEnT0140

02-04-02, 10:39 AM

reading this post has inspipired me. I made my own lego case and it is fully functional. heres the specs on what i have in it.
Mobo: Biostar MV7KS (i think...) micro atx
Proc: AMD Duron 1.0ghz
HDD: Maxtor 13gig
No-name DVD drive
PS: Sun micro atx
and it's running on top of my mac g3 tower using the mac monitor... now thats a weird sight... windows xp on a mac monitor. I used only legos, no spare parts from a case or anything. there is no power button, so i have to restart then pull the plug during bios check so it will start up when i plug it back in. I'm currently working on a top that comes off when you press a button(Lego Mindstorms). Gotta add the L.E.Ds.I have a little window, but you can't see anything in it. I have some extra red L.E.Ds and might make a case light out of them. I'll try and post some pics tonight. I have the mobo raised on 4 lego blocks at the corner and have had no problems. The DVD drive is mounted under the mobo and there is a fan under the mobo to keep the back cool(so the legos don't melt :) ) i got some major mods still to com, but it look pretty good so far. i need all black blocks... time to call lego!

02-04-02, 12:58 PM

I am 15 as well. I made subwoofer box out of legos. I wish I had a camera so you could see it. It's hysterical because it has got all the colors of the rainbow scattered in no particular order. Are you using 2x*, or 1x*?

JDXNC

02-04-02, 07:35 PM

here is a finished case... its actually just a lego shell but still looks cool: http://people.netscape.com/toms/cubicle/computer/

Captain Slug

02-05-02, 10:57 AM

I did this a year ago!!!! Back when I thought I couldn't afford a case...

I thought it was just WAYYYY too weird to tell anyone about AND I even used technic pieces in the right spots in order to mount the Floppy, HDD, CD-ROM, and Motherboard.

I never did figure out a secure way to holding in expansion cars short of scalping a motherboard tray...

I might make a second version if someone dared me...
The first case had a hinged door and the finished product weighed 20 pounds!
Now I'm working on a 10 x 15 x 7 inch Teeny-Tower made out of Polycarbonate Plastic.

Captain Slug

02-05-02, 11:01 AM

And here's a pic of the Polycarbonate case I'm working on. I chose orange because nobody's every really used it before. Does anyone think it would better in green?:rolleyes:

nohoy

02-05-02, 05:08 PM

Originally posted by Captain Slug
And here's a pic of the Polycarbonate case I'm working on. I chose orange because nobody's every really used it before. Does anyone think it would better in green?:rolleyes:

why not do a combo of both green and orange. those are the two best colors and i find they complement each other well.

natopotato

02-06-02, 12:53 PM

no offencse but i dont think they would look good together i would say ornge or yellow

only 5inch drive bay .......... u sure??

cyber mouse45

02-07-02, 12:22 AM

mdcomp

02-22-02, 08:09 PM

i don't know if anyone is interested anymore, but i am gonna try and build a lego case

I'll post the results

drunkmonkey

02-22-02, 09:45 PM

You need to get a Lego RCX, they are $150 (ouch). They are small microcomputers with onboard memory, analog inputs/outputs, an infared sensor, and is programmaable in VB. You could use it to monitor temps or control lights, it uses 9V-12V power.

drunkmonkey

02-22-02, 09:56 PM

oohhh, ohhh, pick me

What if get those lil lego people and make them look like there working on your computer?? That would be soo awsome, you could get those itty bitty tools that fit in their hands.
Have them scattered around the inside in front of your window.