Zomgee

Spent the past few days putting way too much time and effort into the desk. I’ll spare you the nitty-gritty right now and just pass on a picture and some details.

As you can see, I have the monitor in and set to go. After countless hours, I finally found a feasible way to mount the drives in the console. I cleaned it up a bit and filed down some rough edges. All I have left to do is the body work, ventilation, and hooking up the computer.

Speaking of computer, I have it all built and set to go. Here are the specs.

• Antec Three Hundred case
• AMD 6000+ 3.0 ghz dual core processor
• 650W 3-rail power supply
• ATI HD4870 video card
• 500GB hard drive
• 4GB RAM (2×2GB)
• 2 DVD RW drives
• Super multi drive (card reader, eSATA, fan controls, USB ports)
• Fan controller
• 17″ Dell widescreen monitor

That’s all for now. Keep on going with the photoshopping contest!

For the past couple months, I’ve been developing a project in my mind. It all started with a conversation I was having with a coworker about computer desks. I decided that I’d like one similar to this: the V1 Chair. Since they were silly enough to post practically blueprints on their website, I thought it’d be great to build. I did some research and the price for the metal would have been around $200 for steel, $300 for aluminum. I wanted the steel so that I’d have an excuse to play with the welder, but other opportunities arose. (continue reading…)