Wooden Art Deco PC Looks Like a Blast From The Past - taylorupostaing1940

When it comes to PC vitrine mods, Jeffrey George Stephenson is kind of a grand deal. Aside from predominant showcases at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the talented designer has also won awards from competitions sponsored by Lenovo, Intel, and UK publication bit-tech.net, which has doled out five awards to Stephenson in the last few long time unsocial. His latest project, the Aerodyne, gathers elements from his ago projects and combines them into a functional, sleek looking PC tower — but A Boing Boing notes, solely a some of them wish be available to an interested investor.

Built from aluminum plating, a sturdy mahogany finish, and various amounts of carefully-cut lumber, the Aerodyne jut out started off when Stephenson received a Mini-ITX class factor motherboard, courtesy of VIA Technologies celebrating the gadget's 10 day of remembrance. Finished the course of more than a month, Stephenson documented the complex process of building a proper Personal computer shell for the device. As a result, the finished project came together as a fully operable tower, with the designer's trademark "straight-up slap you in the face Art Deco" trimmings, an Intel i3 CPU, 8GB Tup and a 256GB solid state tug.

Notably, Stephenson had to implement a few tricks to get the case to fit the littler dimensions. Since the approximation was to build a "compact" Microcomputer case, the entire thing is fan-less, bring through the CPU fan on the motherboard. Fortuitously, the entire matter doesn't overheat since the small aim is complemented by a batch of open metal plating and panels. Every bit good as it looks, the prototype was beset by some minor transmission line issues, although we'd the likes of to think the creator is pettifogging. Either direction, the fully dressed model looks ripe for output.

The connector in the back is the DC jack. It is my biggest plan fault (yet). I wanted it to be mounted at the bottom so that the cable wouldn't live flapping in the current of air at the top. Internecine hinderance from my mounting system forced the via media. I consider it acceptable for a image and the reason wherefore you work up prototypes.

Photos of the entire prototype-building chronological succession can be seen all over at Stephenson's Facebook gallery and the bit-tech.net forums. Besides, you can assure out the rest of his projects at his official website. With Aerodyne completed and ready for display, anyone present at CES should expect to see this somewhere on the show floor, drawing off plenty of attention for the eye-spying workmanship — and if you want to take one home, you should probably have a chequebook operating theatre your Las Vegas money snip off.

[Jeffrey Stephenson Design, second-tech.net via Boing Boing]

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