worst casemod ever: ubuntubox cardboard pc

December 19th, 2007 post a comment (8) stumble it! by: technabob

This computer has to be the biggest hunk of junk I’ve ever seen. Cobbled together from cardboard, red duct tape and embellished with a Sharpie, the UbuntuBox V1.0 certainly won’t win any awards for build quality.

Ubuntubox Cardboard Casemod

According to the builder, the guts of the old Pentium 3 tower are being used to power this Ubuntu Linux computer. He claims that the system really does work, and despite its cardboard construction, it has yet to spontaneously burst into flames.

I’d be happy to send him a lighter and some accelerant if that helps him achieve his goal faster.

[via flickr]

December 19th, 2007 post a comment (8) stumble it! by: technabob

8 comments post a comment

1. technabob | December 19th, 2007 at 7:41 am

Not to be outdone…
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/feature-guy-turns-take-out-pizza-box-into-functional-computer
2. Erik | December 19th, 2007 at 11:23 am

Wow. This could be a fire hazard, I think. Why even have a case? You might as well just leave it in the open air. Easier to dust off, change out ram, etc.

And if you’re going to use a cardboard box and call it an Ubuntu box, couldn’t you at least spray paint the Ubuntu symbol or something?

It kind of does a disservice to Ubuntu–like it’s the operating system of cardboard boxes and hobos. Oh well.
3. technabob | December 19th, 2007 at 12:56 pm

I thought that Windows Vista was the OS of hobos.
4. Edd Morgan | December 20th, 2007 at 1:22 pm

No, Vista is the OS of rich idiots (and running Vista on one of my machines, I am proof of this).

Ubuntu is the OS of hobos (it’s true, I have scientific evidence*), and should be right at home in a decrepit cardboard box.

* Evidence may not exist.
5. deepdig | December 21st, 2007 at 1:10 am

It’s hard to avoid humid weather
not a good design
6. luisao_bahia | December 26th, 2007 at 6:27 am

If UBUNTU works in such computer, imagine what UBUNTU could be in a CORE QUAD DUO, ‘n’ GB of RAM and ‘m’ TB of winchester (*)….lllooolll !!

(* winchester is HD, i am of old scholl huahuaha).
7. xwn | December 26th, 2007 at 3:35 pm

Reminds me of what a friend did some time ago… he also build his pc inside a cardboard box, but he did it better than this guy, as his box featured water-cooling. And no, this is not a joke.
8. Rodrigo | January 26th, 2008 at 2:44 am

Beautiful!!!