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Wednesday, October 26, 2005 2:50 PM PT Posted by Anne B. McDonald
Enter the Great Pumpkin PC
File this under Things We Wish We Had Done Ourselves.Kudos to the guys at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville who put together this great and timely PC.
Isn't it a hoot?
Here are the Pumpkin PC's specs: A genuine Cucurbita pepo (field pumpkin) PTX 1.0 case, with a Dell Latitude D410 laptop board. It has a 1.6 GHz Intel (corrected on 10/27 by makers) Pentium M processor with Intel wireless card, a 60GB hard drive, 512MB of DDR2, and a DVDR/RW drive. Note that the "eyes" are fans.
Here's an overhead view of how all that fits into the "case:"
The geniuses with the great imagination--or too much time on their hands (you decide)--are Mike Duncan, Mark Morgan, and Forest Denger, all techs in the university's campus computer store service center.
They have a step-by-step on how they did it here.
Congratulations, guys! And thanks to James Motch of the PCW Test Center, who told us about it.
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It will rot in a few days.
That is so awesome! I'm going to tear apart my old laptop and build this.
Rot yes, but it's still cool. After this case rots they can always move it into a hollowed out turkey for the next holiday.
There is no such thing as a Centrino processor. If anything, it's a Pentium-M.
Sweet! I'm at the UofA in Fayetteville. I need to go find this and take some pics.
I never said "processor." You did.
All jack-o-lanterns rot in a few days...
shellack it.
"I never said "processor." You did."
I think he was talking about the article.
I think they did shellack it. Otherwise, it'd be pretty damn stupid.
There's a spray you can get -- some kind of acrylic lacquer mixed with an antifungal -- which will forestall rotting by a few days. They sell it at my grocer's around Halloween-time. You could probably use a Krylon clear-coat from an art-supply store too.
But then the fun is over.
yeah... we shellacked it. It's still starting to rot. We got about a week out of it.
Would be a good concept but using a foam pumpkin from a craft store.
Gives a new meaning to the expression, "zombie computers."
Zombie computers? Why's that?
They could of freeze dried the pumpkin?
I know a few Women with enough space in their empty heads you could mount it next!
CantWaitTillItGoesOnFire
the pentium m processor is under the contrino class, ya its an awesome looking case, thye did a good job on it.
cgfxjfcgh
Awesome Pumpkin PC!! Kudos to the U of A Computer Store techs for putting it together!!
couldnt they coat it with some sort of latex or something like bondo for cars? It seems like they could coat the inside and out to make it last.
I like it