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Something for the caffinated geeks among us
« on: July 02, 2008, 03:38:04 PM »
A computer espresso machine mod, I think I may be getting an old case off ebay  cloud9:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/extreme-modding,1911.html

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We all know that some people are never satisfied; earthly goods and material accumulations fade when faced with the force of their destinies, though admittedly, this only occurs in particularly grave cases. The most visible symptom of this phenomenon among PC enthusiasts is an insatiable hunger for something special to differentiate themselves from the masses.

Those computer users unfortunate enough to spend a large portion of their free time pursuing their addiction are easy to spot. Give them a water-cooling system, and in no time at all they want to upgrade to a compressor cooler. Sell them a high-grade PC casehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_case , and they want more color LEDshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEDS  to light up in the dark. Or perhaps they treat themselves to SLI dual-card graphics, only to suddenly find that they long for a quieter system. If all else fails, they move all the components into some exotic enclosure, such as a beer keg or an aquarium - filled with liquid, of course!

René G. from Munich, Germany, is one of these individuals, a tinkerer and inventor to whom performance and visual style alone have long ago ceased to be sufficient. As a passionate coffee drinker, René G. set a difficult goal for himself, one that took him nearly 80 hours to achieve: through laborious and precise work, he was able to convert a coffee maker  into a standard PC shell. A case of extreme modding, if you will. He invested over $3,000 into the components alone.



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Re: Something for the caffinated geeks among us
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2008, 03:48:04 PM »
A computer espresso machine mod, I think I may be getting an old case off ebay  cloud9:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/extreme-modding,1911.html

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We all know that some people are never satisfied; earthly goods and material accumulations fade when faced with the force of their destinies, though admittedly, this only occurs in particularly grave cases. The most visible symptom of this phenomenon among PC enthusiasts is an insatiable hunger for something special to differentiate themselves from the masses.

Those computer users unfortunate enough to spend a large portion of their free time pursuing their addiction are easy to spot. Give them a water-cooling system, and in no time at all they want to upgrade to a compressor cooler. Sell them a high-grade PC casehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_case , and they want more color LEDshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEDS  to light up in the dark. Or perhaps they treat themselves to SLI dual-card graphics, only to suddenly find that they long for a quieter system. If all else fails, they move all the components into some exotic enclosure, such as a beer keg or an aquarium - filled with liquid, of course!

René G. from Munich, Germany, is one of these individuals, a tinkerer and inventor to whom performance and visual style alone have long ago ceased to be sufficient. As a passionate coffee drinker, René G. set a difficult goal for himself, one that took him nearly 80 hours to achieve: through laborious and precise work, he was able to convert a coffee maker  into a standard PC shell. A case of extreme modding, if you will. He invested over $3,000 into the components alone.




80 hours to make that pile o' shite?  noooo:
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Re: Something for the caffinated geeks among us
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2008, 03:56:18 PM »
His version is but having looked at the article I've had a dose of inspiration. I can build something better in half the time. Just a matter of stripping down the coffee machine I'd plan on using and working out how to fit it in an mini tower case.
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Re: Something for the caffinated geeks among us
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2008, 04:13:18 PM »
His version is but having looked at the article I've had a dose of inspiration. I can build something better in half the time. Just a matter of stripping down the coffee machine I'd plan on using and working out how to fit it in an mini tower case.
Or just fit a computer in the mini-tower and get coffee from a coffee machine?  noooo:
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Re: Something for the caffinated geeks among us
« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2008, 04:17:32 PM »
Work is quiet at the moment and this is appealing to me as a novelty project.  sad24:
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