The source (forum) for this Milk Jug PC Case Mods is in Russian, so I don’t know the detail about this. I’ve tried to find any information about this case mods on Google, and got nothing. Instead, I got this funny “Moo Cow Moo” PC Case mods here :d

The creator, Richard Sherman, recently win NewEgg (newegg.com) monthly mods content with this Bronco mods. For the monitor screen, he used a 12.1” LCD screen, which he got from EBay for $100. For the inside, he used an old motherboard, CDROM, hard disk drive and power supply. The wheel, using RC truck tires, were bought from eBay for $35. And in the center of the Ford Bronco’s front signal turn, he added 2 USB plugins so he can plug his USB Drive easily.

For the music, he used an 1/8th inch mini stereo plug to 2 RCA plugs for hooking up to any house stereo and an FM modulator to send the audio to any radio within 1000 feet. For better perfomance, he later upgraded most of the inside part of the case. All of them, he said, were bought from NewEgg.

Richard said that he spent 14 months total to build this wonderful case mods. Now he has 2 Bronco PC Case Mods in his house, both connected to broadband internet access via router.

Now I have 2 Bronco’s that I really love and a great gaming machine in the house. I have learned a lot about what it takes to build something like this from scratch, I had never done any work with modeling clay, very little with fiberglass and no experience in computer design, but I like what I ended up with.

Now I have an eye catching PC that works great as a mobile juke box. With the integrated Keyboard, LCD screen, and wireless mouse I can go to any party to surf the net or play some tunes. I don’t need to add any speakers because with the use of the FM modulator I can just hook up to any one’s stereo system and be jamming in 2 minutes…

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Katsuya Matsumura is the Japanese man who created this case mods by himself. Being an anime geek, he used to create his own anime figure. Not enough with that, he started the idea of having an anime doll as his PC case. Not the small one, but with the real women-shaped body. His first woman-shaped life-sized PC case mods, on April 2003, is Ellen (see screenshot below).

His next ‘daughters’ are Maya (image on the first part of this post) and later followed by Kana (screenshot below).

Now Katsuya accepts order for creating any shape of PC case mods, not just the human-like above. The price is vary, depend on the size an difficulty, but as a comparison, the small head-mode anime on the left – Tarutaru from Final Fantasy XI – cost around $1000 – $3000. For the maximum scale, 1:1 lifesize human model, might cost up to $6000.

If that’s too expensive for you, Katsuya is kind enough to give his detail tutorial for making your own human case-mods. You can read the tutorial here.

[ Via OddJapan ]

Another cool mods you have to see:

• The “800Mhz Teadybear” – computer inside the Teddy Bear
• The Dreamcast PC – computer inside the Dreamcast body
• The “Pomgolian Web Server” – computer inside the guitar
• The “ITX-Helmet” – computer inside the helmet

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Overview of the hard drive’s wall clock (taken from his site):

• Uses 12 high power LED’s for displaying the clock hands, 6 Blue and 6 Red.
• Slot cut into upper drive platter and white tape on center drive platter provides a slot that when illuminated by the LED’s will represent a clock hand.
• Minute hand is represented by blue light, hour hand is represented by red light and the second hand is represented by purple (both blue and red on at the same time).
• Infrared Beam sensor and drilled index hole in lower drive platter.
• Three micro switches to set hours, minutes and seconds.
• Custom programmed PIC16F-628 microcontroller to control clock operation.

[ Read How You Can Turn a Hard Drive Into a Wall Clock ] [ Via BoingBoing ]

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