[TriLUG] OT: wall mounted PCs?

[Jeff Bollinger]

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Whatever you end up doing, detail your steps, put it on the web, and
it's guaranteed to get Slashdotted (if it looks cool enough).

Jeff

Greg Brown wrote:
| Since handhelds.org was down all weekend I could not upgrade my iPAQ to
| Linux so I came up with something different to think about (but I'll
still
| preform the upgrade, and write up a how-to for the future how-to section).
|
| Anyway, my computers are located in my bonus room, and that room is
fairly
| small.  The computers that sit in the standard cases all over the
floor are
| in the way quite often so I came up with the idea of mounting them to the
| wall.
|
| What I'd like to do is find a way to mount the motherboard, power
supply, and
| drives to a board painted to match the wall then cover the thing in
| plexiglass (to protect from anyone touching the thing and giving it a
static
| shock.  I'd also like to put some of those groovy computer power
supply run
| neon lights inside the plexiglass case.
|
| Does this seem like it would work?  Other than providing a common
ground and
| keeping static off the computer does the case really do anything?  It
seems
| that cooling slits could be cut into the top of the plexiglass case
and fans
| added to the bottom to pull in cooler air and let the hot air out.
|
| If this idea would work does anyone know where one can get plexiglass for
| this kinda thing?
|
| Greg
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Jeff Bollinger
University of North Carolina
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mailto: jeff_bollinger at unc dot edu


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