Materials: RIBBA Extra Deep Frame
Description: I had a couple of old motherboards and PC components lying around. Since they were rather colourful and I had a plain wall to decorate, I decided to have them framed.
Unwilling to have a custom frame made for them, I headed down to Ikea where I found 520 x 520mm RIBBA frames (Article Number: 601.798.01) had a picture width of 490mm, just enough room for two ATX motherboards side by side, or 4 mATX.
Because the motherboard was thicker than the maximum 30mm depth, I had to remove the IO ports to make them fit. The thinned-down motherboards were then hot glued onto the frame. A few screw holes for fastening were also added for good measure.
As the frame was now much heavier than Ikea designed it to be, I was afraid the original clips would not hold. So I drilled four more holes were and threaded a thicker wire for hanging. Hope this inspires you to give new life to those old / non-functional PC components!
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~ Justin Lin, Singapore
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woah, way cool. I've seen someone wall frame mount a LCD panel as well. I suppose you could go the extra step and wall mount your entire workstation.
DeleteDone, and done! We get lots of compliments on ours. We call it Garfunkel.
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I forgot to mention, we used two Ribbas, piano hinged them and then installed the full M/B, CPU+heatsink and all of the cable leads in the case. The mod'ing of the case for all of the cable ports and power buttons took over 8 hours. Looks great, though.
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ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea, so innovative and creative! :) Thank you for sharing this article.
ReplyDeleteI have an 8080 motherboard that I want to do that with it.
ReplyDeleteI really love this, my boyfriend and his room mate are both in PC repair, maybe I should do this with my old pc motherboard and give it to them. :)
ReplyDeletevery cool and I just recycled a bunch of stuff.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea- I'm thinking of doing this for my 10 year old's room- he is totally into computers/electronics! Might even be cool to spray paint a solid color!
ReplyDeleteLove it, might do this myself some day :)
ReplyDeleteLove this!
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ReplyDeleteI've been to Ikea and couldn't find 520 x 520mm RIBBA frames (Article Number: 601.798.01) - I tried to search it on their site by article number still nothing. I wonder if they disconnect it. If you know where is it please paste a link here. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteGood and original idea for nostalgic
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