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[Mahesh Venkitachalam] wanted to light up the dark recesses of his desk. What good is all that storage if you can't see a darn thing in there? His solution was to add LED strips which turn on automatically when the door is opened. The design is quite simple. A 2N2222 NPN transistor is responsible for connecting the ground rail of the LED strips mounted under each shelf. The base of that … [Read more...]
This desk is also a computer case. From this view it may not seem like much, but the build log has hundreds of images which could be called metal fabrication porn. The desk surface is made of wood, but all of the other parts were crafted from stainless steel. The three components that weren't fabricated by [Paslis] are the pair of legs and the column supporting the screens. These pieces are … [Read more...]
[Paul] had been kicking around his idea of a perfect computer desk for some time, and when given the opportunity to remodel his office decided it was time to build his dream computer case. The desk itself is made of hickory with a formica top to match the other workbenches in [Paul]'s workspace, The two largest drawers house an ATX motherboard, power supply, disk drives, and a pair of CD … [Read more...]
[LuckyNumbrKevin] wanted an epic monitor array of his own but didn't really have the desk real estate to pull it off. His solution was to build a three computer monitor mounting rack with a relatively small footprint. The design started with some virtual test builds using SketchUp. Once he had it dialed in he began transferring measurements for the base onto some plywood. The rest of the parts … [Read more...]
How does one take a game of Simon and make it extremely awesome? The folks at the North Street Labs -- a Hackerspace in Portsmouth, Virginia -- have found the secret and it's all in the execution. They turned this chair-desk into a coin-operated Simon game that hides a huge surprise. We suppose you should be able to guess the secret. Most coin-operated sidewalk attractions are rides, and so is … [Read more...]
This piece of furniture begs the question, why think of a desk and a computer case as separate things? It combines Ikea furniture with electronic hardware to create the ultimate command center. First the obvious parts: there's a nook for the computer case that hangs just below the desktop off to the side, and the twin displays are mounted front and center. The divider between the cabinet … [Read more...]
Feeling pretty good after putting together your brand new standing computer desk? Step aside please, [Kagen Schaefer] has something he’d like to show you. His Pipe Organ Desk is undoubtedly one of the coolest pieces of furniture we have seen in a long time. The project took [Kagen] over three years to complete, which sounds about right once you see how much attention was put into every last … [Read more...]
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