Today I was superbored, and was scavaging through my room for things to do, and stumbled upon a couple of laptops, all set up, with Windows and all.
So, I thought, "What can I do with two aging 15.4" laptops?", and came up with the idea of flipping the screens (Really easy mod on this model), and putting them on the wall with some fancy graphics, making them digital "paintings".
The laptops, 466MHz Celerons, 256MB RAM and 4MB DX7 graphics card, running a 3D screensaver called "ElectriCalm". (If you've got something nicer, that will run on these, feel free to suggest.)
The flipscreen mod applied, the screen is now covering the keyboard, basically making it like an iMac.
The two lappies beside each other, fully folded, and ready for mounting.
The final result.
In the dark. It's really hard to get a good picture of them, since I don't have a stand for my camera.
I'll propably place them elsewhere when I get the tools to drill in these walls. They look like they are now, too, though.
***EDIT***
I moved them, since 1/4 of the screens got covered up there, and that structure could barely hold the extra four kilos they made up.
Looks leet without power cables
So, I thought, "What can I do with two aging 15.4" laptops?", and came up with the idea of flipping the screens (Really easy mod on this model), and putting them on the wall with some fancy graphics, making them digital "paintings".
The laptops, 466MHz Celerons, 256MB RAM and 4MB DX7 graphics card, running a 3D screensaver called "ElectriCalm". (If you've got something nicer, that will run on these, feel free to suggest.)
The flipscreen mod applied, the screen is now covering the keyboard, basically making it like an iMac.
The two lappies beside each other, fully folded, and ready for mounting.
The final result.
In the dark. It's really hard to get a good picture of them, since I don't have a stand for my camera.
I'll propably place them elsewhere when I get the tools to drill in these walls. They look like they are now, too, though.
***EDIT***
I moved them, since 1/4 of the screens got covered up there, and that structure could barely hold the extra four kilos they made up.
Looks leet without power cables
Last edited by Freezer7Pro (2008-02-17 15:48:16)
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
