Designing and Making a Computer Case

[shout]

Aluminium cans.

What name do you go by on IRC? And quit stealing my ideas. =(

I don't go on IRC.

[Explicit]

You should start.

[Joe[x86]]

Yes @ Tazo.

[Explicit]

You should make a car while you're at it.

[Joe[x86]]

Aluminum car? Sounds fun!

[Explicit]

Accidents would be very brutal though.

[Joe[x86]]

Just recycle it.

[Explicit]

I meant for the person driving,

[QwertyMonster]

Wow at how this went WAY off-topic....

[Explicit]

I think Yegg has decided upon using wood anyway. But yes, I apologize for going off-topic. The idea of an aluminum ____ is amusing though!

[Arta]

Catch fire? Come off it. Your computer would burn itself out long before it raised the temperature of the air inside the case enough to ignite wood. Obviously have good ventilation, or your computer won't work, but I wouldn't worry about fire.

I've often considered making my own case. I'd make a metal frame and use acrylic for the sides. It's reasonably cheap, very easy to work with, and comes in as many colours as you can think of. If you use reasonably thick material (say 5mm) it should be pretty robust, but if it breaks, it's not really that bad - just buy some more and replace the broken part. Also, you can get transparent acrylic, if that's your thing. You can get acrylic dowelling (rods) as well as sheet, so there's probably something cool you could do with that too.

[Explicit]

Why don't you make your own case then? It'd be fun!

[Yegg]

Thanks for the advice guys. I'm now considering acrylic along with some other materials that may become necessary. I wouldn't want transparent acrylic, but so far acrylic seems like a pretty good idea.

[Explicit]

Do you have a certain color scheme in mind?

[Trance]

Wood would (haha, rhymes) overheat, and if you get enough uptime, just might catch on fire. Of course, not many people can say "Dude when I press this button my computer actually lights on fire", but theres a reason for that. =p

Haha, I can.. For some reason one of my computers decided to die one day, and now everytime I press the power button it does indeed catch fire.