Late Night Hardware Foolery

Mike Ralston

So I was up a little later than I should have been, considering I'm sick.

scottalanmiller

I've heard of pizza box servers but....

nadnerB

New meaning to "Fire it up"...

When the grease on the box stars cooking again, you will know the server is too hot.

Mike Ralston

It's even got a "stealth" 5.25" bay, the flaps open up when the disk is ejected. I was bored and I wanted to repair the machine anyways, but a GPU I was going to put into it didn't fit into the case it was currently in (hooray for the ever-annoying half-height PCIe slots...), so I improvised. Order pizza, anyone?

Joy

@Mike-Ralston so I improvised. Order pizza, anyone?
Would love to have that...
Pizza delivery to Philippines

Terra

Now just make a full-fledged pizza box case and you can sell it for millions!
haha!

Mike Ralston

@Terra haha sure! If I used all Mini ITX parts, I could probably contain it in the box...

thanksajdotcom

Well done! There's more than one way to skin a PC...

Dashrender

I'm surprised you don't have a conductivity issue - maybe carboard is more electrically neutral than I though?

gjacobse

@Dashrender said:

I'm surprised you don't have a conductivity issue - maybe carboard is more electrically neutral than I though?

It would be unless it had picked up moisture - ambient air humidity will give paper products (cardboard) a varied about of conductivity. Higher the moisture, the higher the conductivity.

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said:

I'm surprised you don't have a conductivity issue - maybe carboard is more electrically neutral than I though?

Cardboard is often used as an insulator. It is made or carbon and air - popular insulators.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

I'm surprised you don't have a conductivity issue - maybe carboard is more electrically neutral than I though?

Cardboard is often used as an insulator. It is made or carbon and air - popular insulators.

Not to mention it's Low voltage DC, very little will conduct it unless it's very conductive - IE Metal, none distilled water etc.

Mike Ralston

@Dashrender said:

I'm surprised you don't have a conductivity issue - maybe carboard is more electrically neutral than I though?

I was worried about this, so I ran some extra wire and I'm now using the speaker as a ground. Its casing is metal, so it works well. The whole thing is safe, and rather comical.

thanksajdotcom

@Mike-Ralston said:

@Dashrender said:

I'm surprised you don't have a conductivity issue - maybe carboard is more electrically neutral than I though?

I was worried about this, so I ran some extra wire and I'm now using the speaker as a ground. Its casing is metal, so it works well. The whole thing is safe, and rather comical.

Well done. Lol