Comments on: Broken TV brought to life in LEGO body

By: Blake

Blake — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:32:39 +0000

Id like to extend a thank you to all the people who mock my creation. Hackaday wasn’t made(as far as i know) for people who think they can do better to try to prove it by telling others that their idea was stupid and that they could have done it better. I was just posting a bit about what I had done for the people who care to look at it. If you could have done it better, fine. Go do better. I used what I had available on short notice, and I am quiet proud of what I’ve done.

To clear up any questions, YES I am using Ultramon to extend my task bar to my second monitor. I didnt include my main monitor in the pictures because the article was about the rebirthed one. The difficult part of the monitor was having to use VGA ports for both monitors. Required going in and messing with the BIOs til it worked. My Version of Vista is NOT pirated in any way.

Thank you for the positive comments from the people who did post them, and to those who bash on others ideas, go play in traffic. Dont have anything nice to say, dont say anything at all

By: Jayson

Jayson — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:38:22 +0000

I can see the benefit of using legos to make a new frame. Yeah, it may be a little bulky, but if you can find a strong enough glue it will be more durable than the original plastic. Also, you can make your own designs or even set up a lighting scheme with transparent legos.

By: Gabe

Gabe — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:54:52 +0000

You wankers and you’re, “what would have been better… miasma. spare us all
Excellent way to get rid of a broken tv and some useless chinese plastic parts imo. Throw it in the kids room & call it a day. This way you can stream your propaganda direct even while they’re sleeping!

By: bothersaidpooh

bothersaidpooh — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:36:09 +0000

cool would have been ripping out the (dead) backlight tubes, removing the panel and then grafting the panel into the case of a dead crt monitor, with a high wattage LED behind the panel.

even better, take the centre polarisers off the panel(s) (best to use one with scratches for this), sandwich the panels together and make a 3-D monitor.

By: M4CGYV3R

M4CGYV3R — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:44:12 +0000

I was expecting a crazy lego structure with a CRT in it. As far as I’m concerned, it’s not a TV without a CRT – it’s an LCD/TFT/Plasma/LED/Laser panel.

By: Coligny

Coligny — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:29:55 +0000

Yeah sure, saying that using lego as makeshift casing is miserable is considered trolling… What aboot the fact that even a monkey can do better than this, the fact that a Hack is supposed to be a clever use of something, out of the box thinking or showing some skills ? A retard using lego bricks in a way that would put shame to a toddler is not a hack. It’s a tribute to mediocrity.

By: Frogz

Frogz — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:43:16 +0000

….gotta love trolls
this is 1 of the best case mods sofar
hm, speaking of case mods, has anyone made a case out of old motherboards yet?
btw, i just found a 3.2 ghz hp in the alley with a 80 gig hdd, score!

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:46:42 +0000

Mike beat me to it >_< But yeah, the guys running ultramon. I've used it myself a bit but never really liked it much.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:24:14 +0000

OMG
Couldn’t he find a better case? For example to mount the screen on a wooden board and the PCBs behind it. But this is the most inpractical soulution I can think of and it looks gay too.
poor hackaday

By: Erik

Erik — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:40:46 +0000

I love the police minifigure on top. It just makes the case that much cooler. Now I just need my monitor to break the same way so I can warrant doing the same to my computer :P

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:54:06 +0000

Thats deffinatly a secondary monitor with Ultramon. It gives you a taskbar with no start and no system tray.

It also adds 2 buttons to the top of your window that allow you to maximize the window across all screens, and the other one moves the window to the next monitor.

By: therian

therian — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:36:45 +0000

but look at Firefox top all crap there taking 1/4 of view space !

By: adamziegler

adamziegler — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:27:07 +0000

Maybe its not windows.

By: xrazorwirex

xrazorwirex — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:21:41 +0000

Auto-hide taskbar and custom windows theme; it’s more common than you may think, especially with pirated windows discs with bonus stuff slipstreamed into them.

By: vsnine

vsnine — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:50:00 +0000

it is probably a second monitor running a program like UltraMon. It gives you a second taskbar for applications running on your second monitor and doesn’t necessarily show a clock.