EFIKube: Lego EFIKA case

[motorollin]

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
I suggest a confronting yet subtle mixture between baroque and minimalism, where the curly frivolity is being mercilessly shattered by straight lines and primary colours. :lol:

:lol: Where do you get this stuff? BTW I read that message to my other half and he now thinks you're mad ;-)

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moto

[motorollin]

taunusand wrote:
I live in Denmark, but my mom gave away my lego several years ago, because sho thought that I was to old to use it anymore  :cry:
Stupid parents  :madashell:

Anyway, I really like your projekt :-)

Thanks! My mum did the same. Shame as I now have to buy lots of lego for this project :roll: Buying it from Lego directly is so expensive, so I'm really glad I found this web site:

BrickLink

It's great! I bought just over 300 2x4 black bricks for £15 including postage. Lego charge 11 pence per brick which would have made that £33 plus postage! I've bought more bricks since then, so I've saved a LOT!

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moto

[jj]

@ weirdami

You get Lego shops in most european cities.  Certainly seen lots in UK and in germany when I was there

[Speelgoedmannetje]

motorollin wrote:

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
I suggest a confronting yet subtle mixture between baroque and minimalism, where the curly frivolity is being mercilessly shattered by straight lines and primary colours. :lol:

:lol: Where do you get this stuff? BTW I read that message to my other half and he now thinks you're mad ;-)

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moto

You're other half is quite right. :lol:
It's very warm here in NL. Thankfully I'm atm at one of the coastal islands of NL, so I'm swimming alot in a lovely sea.
Btw. I write poems (in Dutch) so every now and then.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

taunusand wrote:

TheGoose wrote:
Danes build the best dams, Danes build the best Lego computers. Cheers!

 :lol:

I live in Denmark, but my mom gave away my lego several years ago, because sho thought that I was to old to use it anymore  :cry:
Stupid parents  :madashell:

Hm, my parents still have it all. In case I or my sis get kids.

Anyway, I really like your projekt :-)

And he says that I am mad :lol:

[weirdami]

Hans_ wrote:
For inspiration, here's the original Google storage tower.

Hans

Duplo!

And, behind that pane of bathroom window privacy glass, ten sexy 4 gigabyte hard drives doing it their own way. MMMMmmmHHHmmm. Yeah. Crawl that WWW. What? Oh, nothing baby, that's just my Digital Library card. :oops:

[motorollin]

I have had a delivery of Lego! :-D

Hidden CD panel in place:
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From the front:
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And removed to show how it was done:
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Thanks a lot to amiga_3k for the suggestion of running the thin contrasting lines around the case to help hide the CD drawer. Initially I was reluctant as I thought it would spoil the design, but did it anyway as I couldn't think of any other way to do it. But in the end I think the two white lines look really smart!

The hidden drawer is a bit of a tight fit in the front of the case so I'll have to be really careful when attaching it to the front of the CD-ROM. It will have to be perfectly in alignment otherwise it won't eject properly. This will be tricky!

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moto

[motorollin]

Another update!

Filed the studs off of the bottoms of the holes which the buttons will go in:
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Made some buttons from two 2x4 plates sandwiched together with a 2x2 tile on top:
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The buttons will eventually be red, yellow and green (power, reset and CD-ROM eject respectively) but I need to go to the Lego shop and try to blag three bricks for them.

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moto

[ZeBeeDee]

motorollin wrote:
 I need to go to the Lego shop and try to blag three bricks for them.

In 2008, a crack Danish military unit promptly escaped from a maximum security factory to the toy underground. Today, still wanted by the Danish government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no-one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the Lego-Team.

[jj]

Brilliant  :-D  :-D

[uncharted]

motorollin wrote:

:lol: Where do you get this stuff? BTW I read that message to my other half and he now thinks you're mad ;-)

Are you sure that comment was directed solely at Speel?  :crazy:

[motorollin]

uncharted wrote:
Are you sure that comment was directed solely at Speel?  :crazy:

Well, his exact words were "he's mad". So he was either talking to me and referring to Speel, or talking to himself and referring either to me, to Speel, or to some unidentified referent ;-)

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moto

[RMK305]

Some windows and a pitched roof would look a treat on that.

Good job.

[ZeBeeDee]

RMK305 wrote:
Some windows and a pitched roof would look a treat on that.

Not forgetting of course, the chimney  :-D

@ Moto

I see by the pictures, there is an empty grey expanse surrounding the case ... a good area for some  flowers and perhaps a few lego bushes?  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

[Darrin]

Damn, what a great idea!  It looks good.

It takes me back to the days when I had a VIC-20 and C-64 set up together and I made a multi-level case/stand out of lego so the VIC sat over the back vents of the C64 and my TV sat ontop of the VIC.  Hey, if it works then what the hell.

I think my kids would kill me if I dismantled their lego Millenium Falcon to make an Efika case though.

[motorollin]

ZeBeeDee wrote:
I see by the pictures, there is an empty grey expanse surrounding the case ... a good area for some  flowers and perhaps a few lego bushes?  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Haha, maybe! I was actually planning to cut the surplus base away, leaving the case looking like a pure black box. But if you insist, I'll make a little lego garden ;-)

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moto