Desk Building. Looking for folks who've done it before!

[Signe]

It would be more awesome if it didn't have all those wires.  I hate wires.  In my house I look at them as dusty, nasty cat toys.  Well, nearly everything is a cat toy in my house now.  My cats have become boss of me.   

[Engels]

steam_punk_computer_1.jpg

That is the BOMB! Especially if it actually has a water cooled system and the guages measure crap like temp and relative water circulation or some such. I'd pay stupid money for it.

[Lt.Dan]

I bought a desktop from ikea for $30 and screwed in some table legs I recycled from around the place.  Functional, cheap, and time efficient.

[Signe]

There's a whole site somewhere with steampunk computers, laptops, other stuffs.  I just don't remember where and I can't be arsed to look.  There's also a site about how to make your stuff into steampunk looking stuff.  Guitars seem to be popular.

[schild]

http://steampunkworkshop.com/

[Sky]

Eh, their guitar is just an etching. Thunder Eagle makes the drool-worthy stuff:





I also like the faucet idea from this mod:

[Signe]

Too bad I can't remember that page.  It has pics of all that cool looking stuff and some really unexpected ones, too.  Oh well.  Someone will eventually find it again someday.  Maybe.

[JoeTF]

Then please, prove it.

How fundamental would you like me to start?  Conductance, EMF, or the Electromotive series would be good jumping off points.  Understanding the reasoning behind the development of CAT5 cable may also be helpful.  Also look at why CAT5 slows down after 100m.


Note: I'm sure an EE on the forums can do a much more elegant job of explaining all this than I can.

You could start on how much do gold plated connectors and other fancy, audiophile improvements help signal quality compared to bend radius or external interference (friend of mine tried to install CAT5 pararell to power cables and failed horribly - I wonder if monster CAT5 would help him succeed).