# Lego computer! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 18, 2004, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lego-computer/264804 "2004-09-18T06:50:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2004, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lego-computer/264804/1 "2004-09-18T06:50:37Z")
[This dude](http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~pratt/brickcase/index.html) put together a custom Linux box using Lego pieces for the case. If you don’t think that’s cool, well you’re just not geeky enough. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2004, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lego-computer/264804/2 "2004-09-18T06:52:22Z")
Ooooooh! That is so cool. ---
**Author:** ![Amberlei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e56c9b/32.png) [@Amberlei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amberlei)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2004, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lego-computer/264804/3 "2004-09-18T13:30:24Z")
Cool, but woulda been cooler if he’d used colored legos. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2004, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lego-computer/264804/4 "2004-09-18T14:12:19Z")
I’m sorry, but that isn’t nearly as cool as it could be. First, the top of the box needs to not have that layer of smooth tiles. How else are you going to stage knights vs. spacemen battles on the top of your computer? Second, the legos needed to be colored. I do like the windows, though. ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2004, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lego-computer/264804/5 "2004-09-18T21:10:18Z")
Some more lego cases: [http://members.cox.net/richw/lego.htm](http://members.cox.net/richw/lego.htm) Some more non-lego cases: [http://www.milkandcookies.com/keywords/casemod/](http://www.milkandcookies.com/keywords/casemod/) I saw a better lego one somewhere, but I can’t find it now. Anyway, I like the fact that it’s lego AND linux. Maximum geekiness quotient. ---
**Author:** ![RandomLetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@RandomLetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandomLetters)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lego-computer/264804/6 "2004-09-19T11:12:04Z")
Bah, a REAL geek would have built a difference engine out of Legos, then ported Linux to run his is niftly plastic mechanical computer. ---
**Author:** ![Cerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@Cerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerri)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lego-computer/264804/7 "2004-09-19T13:06:29Z")
This is my favorite Lego 'puter, even got a spot on top you can build stuff onto! [http://www.ocmodshop.com/gallery.aspx?lf=vc&cid=28](http://www.ocmodshop.com/gallery.aspx?lf=vc&cid=28) This however, is one of the coolest case mods I’ve ever seen. The writing on thw site is in Korean, but you can see a little movie of the steps he took to build it. [http://www.koreamod.com/tt/board/ttboard.cgi?act=read&db=koreamod\_gallery&page=1&idx=99](http://www.koreamod.com/tt/board/ttboard.cgi?act=read&db=koreamod_gallery&page=1&idx=99) This one’s awesome too, his inspiration for it was Jules Verne’s Time Machine [http://www.ocmodshop.com/gallery.aspx?lf=vc&cid=92](http://www.ocmodshop.com/gallery.aspx?lf=vc&cid=92) ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lego-computer/264804/8 "2004-09-19T16:45:25Z")
[http://www.ocmodshop.com/gallery.aspx?lf=vc&cid=86](http://www.ocmodshop.com/gallery.aspx?lf=vc&cid=86) that’s the time machine one. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![j\_sum1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@j\_sum1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j_sum1)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lego-computer/264804/9 "2004-09-20T13:25:07Z")
[This](http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images/000/545/056_8fff8146e3cfdb711e8d45a3aa23c23c.jpg) is not your average case mod. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lego-computer/264804/10 "2004-09-20T18:30:59Z")
The boyfriend spent his birthday making lego dinosaurs. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lego-computer/264804/11 "2004-09-20T18:50:23Z")
Somewhere online (not sure if its one of the links already posted, didn’t have time to look at them all) put together a Linux box out of a coffee maker. It still could make coffee, IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lego-computer/264804/12 "2004-09-20T20:21:18Z")
> [@j\_sum1](#): > > [This](http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images/000/545/056_8fff8146e3cfdb711e8d45a3aa23c23c.jpg) is not your average case mod. 🙂 That’s not even a case, it’s a hatrack with computer parts hanging on it. Very bachelor geek. Therefore I don’t think my wife will let me imitate it. ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lego-computer/264804/13 "2004-09-20T21:34:30Z")
This is nowhere near as cool as the [Computerator](http://www.pcrivals.com/?id=13&page=article). I want ice to form on my heat sink too!