The Bender PC Case 239
malorkus writes "This Norwegian site details the process of building an awesome Bender (from Futurama) case mod, complete with an Optical drive in his mouth that you slot CDs into! (Be sure to click the link at the bottom of the page to see the next page in the sequence)." This is one of the most impressive DIY cases I've ever seen. Props to the artists behind this one, even if I can't read any of your words!
Translated Webpage (Score:5, Informative)
In the interest of promoting more enlightened discussion, a translated version of the webpage can be found here [tranexp.com].
mirror of full article (Score:5, Informative)
It's the ad server that melted (Score:5, Informative)
Bender made his debut (Score:3, Informative)
I think...
Re:Translated Webpage (Score:3, Informative)
Norwegian-to-English translators are rather difficult to find.
Pictures of the casemod (Score:2, Informative)
http://overklokking.no/art.php?artikkelid=14773&s
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how to get in (Score:5, Informative)
That's what's been slasdotted - not the site.
Pic here (Score:2, Informative)
Printable page (Score:5, Informative)
http://overklokking.no/print.php?artikkelid=14773 [overklokking.no]
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Re:mirror of full article (Score:5, Informative)
Den ene knappen er powerknapp, den andre er Bender voice knapp "Bite My Shiny Metal Ass"
I don't know what that line of the article means, but I'm making it my IRC quit anyway.
Michael
Re:mirror of full article (Score:5, Informative)
Lousy translation, but its the geist of it.
Image mirror (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.hairykrishna.f2s.com/bender.html [f2s.com]
One of the best case mods I've seen.
Re:Translated Webpage (Score:5, Informative)
Ok then. A quick and dirty human translation follows.
Norwegian-to-English translators are rather difficult to find.
I don't think so.
[first page]
Not all our worklogs are boring boxes and water-cooling. Now, the constructor of the TUX-cabinet hits us with the Futurama-character Bender in full scale.
Bizardo's project is one of the few truely original parts of our worklog-division and is something which definitely can be called "one of a kind".
Those of us at Overklokking.no have chosen to highlight Bizardo's project due to its originality and execution. The project should be an insipration to anyone wanting something other than a standard box.
The following article is writtne by Bizardo himself, where he choses to present his Project Bender. Those of us at Overklokking.no are grateful for him sharing it with us, and hope to see more of his work later.
[second page]
Foreword
After finishing my TUX project, I just had to do something new.. I thought about what to do for months and had several good ideas, but finally I fell for Bender
Planning
How big was it going to be? And how to fit it all together? This needed to be thought through and I figured out that I could first build a full-figure paper figure first, and then make all the mistakes I wanted without wasting time and sheet-metal.
This was used in the project:
* 1 Slim slotload DVD ROM/CD-burner from Carputer.no
* 1 VIA EPIA-M 10000 Mini-ITX motherboard
* WLAN-kort with antenna
* 2 10 watt light-bulbs (12volt)
* 1 120 GB harddisk + 4 external 250 GB disks on firewire
* Metal ducts (for feet and hands)
* 3 Metal kitchen-bowls from Coop (for the top of the head, and legs)
* 4-5 paper sheets
* 3 0,7 mm pieces of steel sheet-metal
* 1 Digital voice recorder from Produkt 24
After playing with different 3d programs I managed to print this 3D-model. I used it as a blueprint where I filled in the measurements for size, and so on.
And so the work with the paper-figure started, calculating angles, finding the correct proportions, etc.
There, we have a paper-figure, very crooked and stuff. With this paper figure all we have to do is spread out the sheets of paper on the sheet-metal and use them as a template
[third page]
Building Bender
The eyes used are 10 watt halogen bulbs running on 12 volts, wired to the PSU
Then it was time to start with Bender's body. Started with taking out the paper-model and putting it on the sheet-metal for marking:
Then the cutting began.
The sheet-metal was cut, rolled until completely round and then welded together.
At last Bender was taking shape, but just the same a lot of work remained.
And then there was Bender's head:
A lot of people thought the head would be a problem considering that the top of the head is round. But it wasn't. Coop [Norwegian co-op supermarket] has metal kitchen bowls. These bowls had just the right diameter and everything, talk about luck
Now when the head is finished it has to be mounted on the body and holes have to be cut for the doors
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Re:i'm the creator of bender casemod (Score:2, Informative)