A Great Way To Commemorate An Old Friend

9:40AM July 22, 2010 | Christina Bonnington

When you can’t keep your computer functioning anymore, this is one way to deal with it: taking it apart and turning it into a piece of furniture. Much more sentimental (and creative) than tossing it in a landfill.

The end product is actually composed of two tables: an inner table that the boards are screwed into and an outer wooden frame with glass to enclose the recycled computer innards.

This circuit board table is primarily made of components from an Intergraph 6880 with Edge II graphics (never heard of it? It’s a model from the late ’80s and early ’90s, the table owner’s first computer) along with 2800 baud modem parts. The boards and drives were carefully placed to fit together like puzzle pieces, and LED lights along the perimeter were wired to automatically illuminate this handiwork once it starts getting dark.

Below is a better look at the top of the table. [The News is Broken via Make Blog]

Comments

DoctorOwl

July 22, 2010 at 11:11 AM

This is the most fantastic peice of furniture I’ve ever seen in my entire life, and I’m 30!

Noother

July 22, 2010 at 11:33 AM

The picture with the lights on in it looked incredible, I’d love one of those.

Kif

July 22, 2010 at 1:05 PM

I can’t help but feel it’d look better in stainless steel or brushed aluminium.

I look into this. There’s dozens of old PC’s just sitting around the local recycle centre.

the black texta

July 22, 2010 at 4:01 PM

I thought it was a coffin to start with

MrTaco

July 22, 2010 at 8:21 PM

Oh man, this is awesome.

I need to figure out something cool like this to do with my trusty bucket of bolts here when it decides to kick it for good. Better than a viking funeral.