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10 Jul 2009, 1:38 am

pakled wrote:
If you do do it, send a picture to the Lego people, and they'll probably make you minorly famous (unless someone else's done it before).


Its been done repeatedly.


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10 Jul 2009, 12:47 pm

pakled wrote:
If you do do it, send a picture to the Lego people, and they'll probably make you minorly famous (unless someone else's done it before).
Okay... thanks! I think this summer holiday, he may well get started on that. He liked the idea of building a genuine "tower" with battlements etc...



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10 Jul 2009, 1:09 pm

Pakled kinda touched on the two things that first come to my mind.

Where are you going to attach things and the heat.
I'm sure you could probably find out with a little research and an email or two what kind of heat a lego can take, make sure it's around 150 degrees fahrenheit at least.

And securing things down will be a problem. You really cant just drill a hole for the screw mounts, a drill/screw will more than likely just crack the plastic. Glue's are probably safe to use, but then you're talking making it permanent.

Just googled and long link
Seems people do it. Check the search, probablyand how-to tutorials up somewhere.


As to me? I built my first computer probably 5 years ago or so. I worked at a CompUSA for a few years in high school in the late 90s and learned a ton there, but never actually did it till more recently.


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10 Jul 2009, 1:48 pm

Home depot, in North America, or the equivalent elsewhere will have glass drill bits. These work great for plastic. Less than 20 bucks for a set of 4.


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11 Jul 2009, 12:00 am

Yeah, I probably have a point there, but the way I wear my hair, you can't tell...;)
Since people are making steampunk computers out of brass keys, etc., I suppose Lego would a natural...;)

Never actually had Legos as a kid (we had dangerous wooden tinkertoys that could break and put an eye out. But then they thought lawn darts were safe, too...;)

I did have a program called Leocad, that would simulate lego construction on the PC. Been ages since I looked at it....;)



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12 Jul 2009, 5:17 pm

I'm guessing 1976 or 1977. I remember wire-wrapping a computer using Intel 4004 series chips to build a system to test chip resistors when I was working for the Navy.

I built my first computer at home (a Motorola 6800) around 77 or 78, again, wire-wrapped.



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13 Jul 2009, 9:36 am

jdbob wrote:
I'm guessing 1976 or 1977. I remember wire-wrapping a computer using Intel 4004 series chips to build a system to test chip resistors when I was working for the Navy.

I built my first computer at home (a Motorola 6800) around 77 or 78, again, wire-wrapped.


That's about the time I started with computers. So we remember those times, when CPU speeds were in kHz. Later on they were in MHz and now they are in GHz.


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16 Jul 2009, 8:52 am

I built my first computer on July 21, 2006 for my mom and after that I have had to rebuild one computer, built one computer, and replace the motherboard in two computers.


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16 Jul 2009, 10:09 pm

Built my 1st one 2 years ago. Was a Asus Mobo and a Athlon 64 Dual-Core with 1 GB Ram. Running Windows XP Home right now.



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17 Jul 2009, 12:06 am

Floyd wrote:
when I was 10 y/o I was working full time at a computer store building, installing and testing all of their computers (for free). Worked there for a couple of years, none of the computers I build ever broke down during this period (with a few exceptions of lightning-strikes).


You are pretty lucky you got to do that.

I used computers since I was 5, and didn't get the chance to build one until I was about 13 which I did on my own (wasn't supposed to, haha)