Some people really want a minimalist setup for their computing. In spite of his potentially worrisome housing situation, this was a priority for the man behind [Basically Homeless]: clean lines on the desk. Where does the PC go? You could get an all-in-one, sure, but those use laptop hardware and he wanted the good stuff. So he decided to hide the PC in the one place no one would ever think to look: inside his chair. (Youtube video, embedded below.)
This chair has very respectable specs: a Ryzen 7 9800XD, 64GB of ram and a RTX 4060 GPU, but you’d never know it. The secret is using 50 mm aluminum standoffs between the wooden base of the seat and the chair hardware to create room for low-profile everything. (The GPU is obviously lying sideways and connected with a PCIe riser cable, but even still, it needed a low-profile GPU.) This assemblage is further hidden 3D printed case that makes the fancy chair donated from [Basically Homeless]’s sponsor look basically stock, except for the cables coming out of it. It’s a very niche project, but if you happen to have the right chair, he does provide STLs on the free tier of his Patreon.
This is the first time we’ve seen a chair PC, but desk PCs are something we’ve covered more than once, so there’s obviously a demand to hide the electronics. It remains to be seen if hiding a PC in a chair will catch on, but if nothing else [Basically Homeless] will have a nice heated seat for winter. To bring this project to the next level of minimalism, we might suggest chording keyboards in the armrests, and perhaps a VR headset instead of a monitor.
Great way to keep your balls nice and warm, and get sterile or ball or arse cancer.
If there was a marketing department for this project, they’d say contraception is a surprise bonus feature, not a bug.
Because computers put off ionizing radiation?
RTX can do antything
No. Heat can lower your sperm quality. And excessive heating of body parts can cause all sorts of problems. Just look up on phrases starting with “Heat stress induced XXX”
Which is why virile Scots wear kilts :)
Joke’s on you, I don’t have any!
Well if you are even remotely considering a heated seat as an option you probably have a really quite cold environment, so frying your own junk shouldn’t be a problem. As that little extra heat really shouldn’t be a problem (within reason anyway) as you’d not want to sit on the chair when you are already rather hot.
That said the right way to do this IMO would be to have water cooling pipes through the seat pad and back that are selectively in the loop – its a normal heat the air through the radiators systems that adds in the extra loops only as much as required to hit the desired temperature.
How stupid. Even during winter* I have to take breaks to let my bum and balls cool down and evaporate sweat. To heat them even more would lead to more sweat, nasty smell and possibly worse.
* Unlike Americans who build their homes of cardboard, we continental Europeans have this thing called central heating (and thermal insulation), so 23°C indoors when it’s -18°C outside is totally normal.
If you’re sweating just sitting down, you really ought to turn down the thermostat. Even us stupid North Americans know to do that when it gets too hot.
You don’t always have an option to. Older radiators might have no controls other than closing the pipe (and it is a very bad practice to keep water valves mid-way, not fully opened or closed).
And central heating. Boiler gives say 60 degC, all district or town around it gets that (give or take small losses along the way).
In a lot of countries, you just have a main thermostat, or even thermostat per room that arranges this.
In Dutch houses, there were thermostats (like the Honeywell Round) used to fire or not fire the boiler when heat is, or is not needed. Most of the time when some kind of city heating is used, an electric valve is placed at the entry point of the house, so heat can be switched off without touching any radiator control valve.
AFAIK they don’t do that in Britain, as they usually just use a timer to switch on or off the (weather controlled) boiler and manage heating or not heating using the radiator valves (correct me if I’m wrong).
Heated seats have been a thing for over 50 years. Almost every car with leather seats has them regardless of country of origin. Some people are never warm enough and some people are always too hot, it’s that way everywhere.
Umm… What? Houses in the US are insulated and have central air… Vs the majority of places I’ve stayed in Europe that have those wall mounted air units
This kinda makes me want to do this to a solar panel with a battery and keep the TDP low enough to survive 24/7 here in Vegas. So maybe 200W on a 550W standard panel? Still, not bad, imagine your entire roof had them, decentralized clouds? Could we subsidize down the solar cost this way?
For some reason my chair (very similar to that one, actually) is a dust and static electricity magnet. I can’t imagine chair-mounted electronics would last very long here.
Nothing like wires getting rolled over and caught in the casters. Clean lines, try an Eames chair or something Herman Miller that is minimalist. Those chairs look too dental office with all the levers and doodads. There some impressive desk-computers that have I’ve seen on the Tube or here.
Instead of twisting the PCIe extension cable, he could have just gone a bit longer to go under the GPU and still have the fans face away. That’s what some small form-factor cases do.
Using the modular jacks was a nice touch, though.
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