Little Coloured Bricks

What is it I hear you ask? A hospital? Factory? Offices? Fire station? Keep guessing, its a computer. Yeah I was pretty shocked too.

In an age when computers are getting smaller and smaller in physical size and composition, this one takes up a lot of space. Inside there is a HP Pavilion. Yes, it is a fully functional, working, operational computer.

As you can see all the components fit pretty snugly into the ‘case’, if we can even call it a case, a work of art is perhaps more apt. When shown on the table it actually looks a bit smaller but regardless of its size it is a computer mod that any Lego fan would want to have.

Above you can see were the various cables fit in. It is a pretty old computer, hence the PS/2 Keyboard connector and it runs on Windows 98 but the goal of this project, i’m sure, was not to display a supercomputer that can play Crysis flawlessly, rather it is to demonstrate how Lego, an activity that many of us sadly confine to our childhood, can be used in practical ways. Indeed it shows how Lego can not just be practical but fun, arty and innovative too when it comes to technology.

Many concerns have been raised in regard to overheating. A valid concern I suppose when you are using plastic blocks as your case. However this doesn’t seem to be a problem in this instance. The owner/designer says:

“This thing stays on 24/7, mostly as an email machine, and the windows above the processor fan are tilted about 30 degrees so there’s plenty of ventilation.”

So it seems that there are little, if any, drawbacks to modding you computer with Lego. What it gives you a chance to do it spice up the rather dull and conformist computer cases that we have came to know; a Lego case will make your computer stand out from the crowd and it only cost $80 in Lego. Be a bit different, give it a go.