…well not quite, but Victorian-styled nonetheless.
In the same vein as his previous creation, [Jake] decided to steampunk his new monitor. However, this time around, he managed to squeeze a full pc into the retro case. A custom aluminum chassis had to be designed and safely house the disk drives and motherboard behind the monitor. Since the 350W PSU was a bit too clunky to mount behind the screen, [Jake] rebuilt the base of the unit around it. The P4, 250GB SATA hard drive, and gold painted cooling fan allow the machine to run Kubuntu “Gusty Gibbon” smoothly. Coupled with a typewriter-inspired keyboard, [Jake’s] got a cutting edge antique setup.
Great! Nice work.
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bluecon
Wow ! Beautiful !
I wonder if this design would stop my grandmother from asking for my help setting up her computer? Maybe she’d recognize it better?
What, no rotary number pad?
When are you going into production with this? Not for me, but I have lots of maker-challenged friends that want one…
@Tyler- a rotary NumPad would be awesome if somebody could actually build it. pointless and inefficient number entry technique, but if it worked like the rotary telephones, i think it would need its own software or at least an arduino or something to convert the pulse into keystrokes.
I have no idea how to make it work I just think rotary dials and cranks belong on a steam-punk computer. Maybe exposed mercury switches too….
i’m normally hate seeing steam-punk hardware but i love this computer especially the keyboard. and the rotary num pad would be an awesome addition.
also some kind of typewriter/printer. even if it could only print text it would be amazing.
I think I just got a boner!
1st generation iMac?
[Jake] is definitely awesome at all things steam-punk, although this is quite an old mod of his. Hack-A-Day, got anything new for us?
Can you say Torchwood?
Yeah and what date is this post from I am guessing at least two to three years old. God hackaday is just rerunning crap and y’all think it’s new and boner filling. Do like I did and start searching for mods and hacks in google – You’ll have your own hackaday two weeks in advance.
Thank god this isn’t a pay site
@jeditalian & Tyler: I read your comments this morning and got inspired. I built an interface unsing an old phone, my arduino and some software. It works quite good even if it is not the best solutin (phone->arduino->serial->SerialServer->java-app->robot->keys). And aparently it writes randomly the digit 7 every few minutes. I will post it tomorrow on my blog.
Nice! Where is the raw material from?
greets
Chris
I stopped reading when i saw “P4”. Those things were too hot for their own good, you don’t want your steampunk creation going up in steam.
I’d grab an AM2 Sempron or a low-end C2D (E2***), then you’ll have one of the coolest systems, literally.
Nice monitor decorations though. And i like the keyboard cable.