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<blockquote data-quote="HoLeChit" data-source="post: 4163759" data-attributes="member: 35036"><p>So my long term project goes back and forth in terms of size, scale, and purpose, but the general idea is this: a table, desk, or wall mounted shadow box kinda deal containing lots of circuit boards. Kinda nerdy, kinda artsy fartsy. I figure I would light it up, maybe put some little LED’s in with the boards to blink and make it look like it’s doing things. But I also want it to be functional. I have 3 ideas for that:</p><p></p><p>1: build a password cracking rig into the fixture. Password cracking rigs are awful big, with heavy cooling and power demands, and typically demand a lot of space too. I’m looking at building a rig that runs 4 graphics cards in parallel for additional computing power. With my last big password cracking job I fried my graphics card on my workstation, and would like to eventually build a cracking rig for high demand stuff, reducing wear and tear on my regular computer.</p><p></p><p>2: build it into a cluster computing device. I could put several small, moderately powered energy efficient computers in amongst the circuit boards; think like Dell Microform factor computers like seen in offices and stuff. Using software I could use the cumulative computer power of all of those rigs to power through tasks as one unit. This would be the cheaper route of the three, and would be more for fun/proof of concept. Could prove to be useful though, as it could be used as a scalable network security device to manage my VPN, network intrusion monitoring, network storage, ad blocking, and other stuff.</p><p></p><p>Both of these high horsepower solutions would be useful with digital forensics projects as well. Most of that forensics work is awfully taxing at points. </p><p></p><p>3: build it as a a computer desk, and build a PC within it, hiding the usable parts amongst the old parts. This would be a fun way to hide the ol desktop.</p><p></p><p>Maybe something like this, but with modern stuff mixed in:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]430216[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]430217[/ATTACH]</p><p>I saw the bottom coffee table about 14 years ago when some guy built it, and fell in love with the idea.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HoLeChit, post: 4163759, member: 35036"] So my long term project goes back and forth in terms of size, scale, and purpose, but the general idea is this: a table, desk, or wall mounted shadow box kinda deal containing lots of circuit boards. Kinda nerdy, kinda artsy fartsy. I figure I would light it up, maybe put some little LED’s in with the boards to blink and make it look like it’s doing things. But I also want it to be functional. I have 3 ideas for that: 1: build a password cracking rig into the fixture. Password cracking rigs are awful big, with heavy cooling and power demands, and typically demand a lot of space too. I’m looking at building a rig that runs 4 graphics cards in parallel for additional computing power. With my last big password cracking job I fried my graphics card on my workstation, and would like to eventually build a cracking rig for high demand stuff, reducing wear and tear on my regular computer. 2: build it into a cluster computing device. I could put several small, moderately powered energy efficient computers in amongst the circuit boards; think like Dell Microform factor computers like seen in offices and stuff. Using software I could use the cumulative computer power of all of those rigs to power through tasks as one unit. This would be the cheaper route of the three, and would be more for fun/proof of concept. Could prove to be useful though, as it could be used as a scalable network security device to manage my VPN, network intrusion monitoring, network storage, ad blocking, and other stuff. Both of these high horsepower solutions would be useful with digital forensics projects as well. Most of that forensics work is awfully taxing at points. 3: build it as a a computer desk, and build a PC within it, hiding the usable parts amongst the old parts. This would be a fun way to hide the ol desktop. Maybe something like this, but with modern stuff mixed in: [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_3476.jpeg"]430216[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_3475.jpeg"]430217[/ATTACH] I saw the bottom coffee table about 14 years ago when some guy built it, and fell in love with the idea. [/QUOTE]
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