CNETAnalysis: Preparing your PC We’ve covered all manner of hot mods and crazy cases: from coolers that look like Giger-esque phallus-filled artwork, to lighting that would put the Blackpool illuminations to shame. So when we came across not so much a mod as a new way of life – okay, a way of wall-mounting a PC – we were all on board. We stumbled across the original project when it was posted to Reddit back in 2011 – it simply showed a running PC hung up on a wall . Sincere flattery We felt a strong urge to try and emulate this trick and our slow-firing neurons took to calculating just how we could levitate such a contraption into the air using our pocket money. While the original system seemed to be mounted on a metallic-style board, we decided to avoid anything metal-based. First for cost, second for weight, and last because we hear computers aren’t too keen on short circuits. Having played with Perspex/acrylic sheeting quite a lot, we knew it could be cheap enough and rigid enough, but would it take the temperatures that PC components throw out? A quick scout around showed that Perspex starts to lose its mechanical rigidity between 95
