Read more.Quote:
It's based upon an Intel NUC and you can expand it with HDD and USB Lego bricks.
Printable View
Read more.Quote:
It's based upon an Intel NUC and you can expand it with HDD and USB Lego bricks.
I was so excited about this... until I saw the pricing. The base model at $599 is presumably based on the NUC5i3RYK which is $280 on Newegg. Add another $79 for m.2 120GB SSD, $25 for 4GB RAM and $30 for the Noctua fan. That leaves $185 for the markup and Lego casing!
Cannot see the point -the cooling will be awful...
That's pretty close on the pricing, it's roughly $280-300 for the NUC board, it's just depends on when and where you buy them, but that's the range they seem to stay in based on the ones I've purchased. The drive is an M.2 and ranges from $80-85, the memory I've been using has been around $35, and the case fan between $20-30. All together for the computer components that puts me around $415-435. The case is made up of around 350 Lego bricks, which cost about $75 dollars. All together that puts me at about $500 or so in component costs per system. Then I charge about $100 to build, test, and configure the system. I always encourage people to build your own if you've got the time, and are comfortable working with both Lego and computer building. By all means, have at it. :) I offer the built versions for those that are not comfortable with building themselves, or don't have a background in computer building and are not comfortable working with computer components, or setup and configuration of the system thereafter. I build these one by one, with just Lego bricks. I'm sure it could be done cheaper if someone produced plastic molds of the case so it just looked like Lego, or had them manufactured by a company. But my own preference is hand building each system, out of real Lego bricks. I'm definitely more into the one by one, hand built and crafted approach, then mass produced and manufactured.Quote:
Originally Posted by kawauso
The cooling is actually quite good. The systems use Broadwell processors, which are 15w TDP for the i3 and i5, and 28w for the i7. The default NUC systems do not use a case fan, they are essentially passively cooled, with only the integrated blower style fan that sits atop the processor. I've added a Noctua fan to the system to make the cooling better than the regular NUC is in default form. With the lower wattage processors, and the addition of the case fan, the cooling is actually quite good, and better than a standard NUC.Quote:
Originally Posted by EvZ_2
Very cool. Makes me want to build one.
And very cool seeing your answers here, totalgeek.
Thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by ET3D
Modular.... Via USB3.
I dunno why, I was hoping that you'd lego the pieces together :(
Call me when they have a raspberry pi version...
i think the whole idea of it is brilliant, i was toying (no pun intended) with using meccano for a build.