From the site:

“Here’s the story: My 6-year-old son and I built this in 2003, using an HP Pavilion. It took about a month and $80 in bricks. There are no screws or glue — everything is held together with Lego bricks. By the way, I saw some comments about heat, but it’s not a problem. This thing stays on 24/7, mostly as an email machine, and the windows above the processor fan are tilted about 30 degrees so there’s plenty of ventilation. Thanks for checking it out!”

 

What a great Father and Son project.  See what happens when you give creative geek dads and sons a bunch of Legos?  They create art.  But this Father Son team created FUNCTIONAL art.  This is the the cutest e-mail machine I’ve ever seen.  But, I hope the Father learns about Unbuntu.  It would load up way faster if you’re only going to use it for emailing and general web surfing. Just saying.

I hope more geek Father’s and Son’s team up to create other works of Art.  I can’t wait to have a son of my own and do these type of projects. I could just imagine it now. My son, coming home from school saying:

“Hey dad. Can you help me build a birdhouse for my woodshop class?”

My response would be:

“Screw wood.  We’ll make a Lego/Computer bird house that’ll make bird calls.  It will have an autofeeder. It’ll refresh the water on it’s own.  It’ll have a reclining sofa. Netflix streaming into a small LCD screen through Wifi. OOO AND—”

wait. I think I got carried away.

[via LegoComputer]

One Response to “A Lego Computer”

1. computer girl says:

   May 20, 2009 at 3:51 am

   Wow that is really impressive, First place I have seen this on the web!!! I like the idea very muc. Thank you for sharing.

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