Icrontic's EPIC Duct Tape Case

[Buddy J]

An eternity in the making, CB and GHoosdum's epic guide to building a computer case entirely out of duct tape is now ready for the masses! You're gonna love it.

Duct tape is probably one of the most geeky materials known to man. We have a history of working with duct tape that includes some fairly impressive constructs, as well as several contest victories for creating purpose-built structures in a short timeframe.

In February of 2007, we decided to put our skills working with DuctTape into a long-term, practical project. We wanted to build something that could really be useful. We decided on a computer case.

Our objective was not to create a working computer out of tape and computer parts, but rather to create a case which could be used to house any computer with a small form-factor motherboard.Read on to check out their amazing handiwork (http://icrontic.com/articles/dtc).

[primesuspect]

That is some serious craftsmanship right there. Kudos to you both.

[Kwitko]

That case is saweeeet!! Excellent work guys! You're both definitely :life:

[Winfrey]

The case looks really good. Excellent write-up, I'm sure you guys enjoyed building at least as much as I enjoyed reading about it. :thumbsup:

[Zanthian]

Great Job Guys... Nice to finally read the article.
One Typo on the last page... "Me Fortress 2."

[GHoosdum]

Great Job Guys... Nice to finally read the article.
One Typo on the last page... "Me Fortress 2."

It's not a typo, actually... CB called it that because I was playing by myself. ;)

Thanks for the kind words, folks!

[Winfrey]

Great Job Guys... Nice to finally read the article.
One Typo on the last page... "Me Fortress 2."

I saw that too, but I think it was on purpose. He wasn't playing with anyone thus there couldn't be any "team" just himself or "me".

Also I wasn't sure how to visualize a duct tape "dart"? is it just a pointed tightly rolled piece of duct tape?

[Zanthian]

:dunce: Oh that makes sense now.

Added to reddit btw http://reddit.com/info/6lamx/comments/

[mas0n]

This is awesome in so many ways. Good job guys!

[CB]

I saw that too, but I think it was on purpose. He wasn't playing with anyone thus there couldn't be any "team" just himself or "me".

Also I wasn't sure how to visualize a duct tape "dart"? is it just a pointed tightly rolled piece of duct tape?

So many people have thought the Me Fortress 2 was a typo, that maybe we should change it... :/

The duct tape 'darts' are just thin strips used as fasteners. The problem was that the word that means what we needed was 'tape'. but we didn't want to say that we were making strips of duct tape 'tape'. 'fasteners would have been equally ridiculous, and we had already used up the word 'strips' elsewhere.

Trust me. I fretted over using 'darts', knowing that that usage is a bit obscure, but in the end it sounded best... :)

[Winfrey]

Trust me. I fretted over using 'darts', knowing that that usage is a bit obscure, but in the end it sounded best... :)

I can only imagine ;D

"darts" makes sense to me now thanks.

[lemonlime]

Fantastic work, guys :D

I really enjoyed the write-up! Who do we talk to if we'd like to get one in for testing in the IC labs? ;)

[Harudath]

Fricking awesome :wow: Nice :thumbsup:

[Zanthian]

Dude you guys got onto Gizmodo! Congrats.
http://gizmodo.com/394121/if-you-build-a-pc-case-out-of-duct-tape-geeks-will-come

[TBonZ]

Sweetness!

[Snarkasm]

Digg (http://digg.com/search?s=Duct+tape&submit=Search&section=all&type=both&area=all&sort=new) alone has three (http://icrontic.com/articles/dtc) different (http://www.fortheloveofgeeks.com/?p=265) links (http://gizmodo.com/394121/if-you-build-a-pc-case-out-of-duct-tape-geeks-will-come) to stories. Congrats all around!

[Cyclonite]

Congrats, guys!

[MAGIC]

Think you will have a problem with heat form the pc softening the glue and the tape losing its composure? Thats why we lost the duct tape challenge last year, except it was the sun not a pc melting our tape. nice work though.

[Buddy J]

Your Duct Tape Challenge entry didn't have sweet cooling fans and a stylish air vent, did it? :bigggrin:

[Sledgehammer70]

sweet//// awesome to finally see it complete good work guys

[UPSWeezer]

That's flippin sweet.

[GHoosdum]

Thanks for the comments, folks!

Yes, [[][][[v]][[]]]agic, we were concerned about the heat. If we were going to be housing a PC in the case longer term, we had planned to cut a 120MM exhaust fan hole and possibly include a front intake fan behind the vent.

[bothered]

Duct tape, is there nothing it can't do?

[Gnome Queen]

So what's the next big project? :D

[UPSWeezer]

I say... build a working duck-tape rockband drum set. And then give it to me:D

[UPSLynx]

Wow, well done guys. That's an impressive feat.

Also, I didn't think ME FORTRESS 2 was a typo - I believe we've called it that in-game before.

[Jokke]

Excellent!

[sharkydart]

hehe nice. :)

[primesuspect]

Bwahahahah total win!

We made Gizmodo's Top 10 Ultimate Ghetto Gadgets (http://gizmodo.com/5049887/10-ultimate-ghetto-gadget-creations) list!

Congrats (again!) CB and Rob! :D

[GHoosdum]

That's awesome! ;D

[Kwitko]

Congrats guys!

[lemonlime]

Awesome!! :cheers: