Mod of the Month - May 2008

HEPHÆSTUS: The amount of hand-made detail is awesome. The kind of build that looks like it was made with Much more expensive tools.

Tiny HTPC: Clean, elegant look - like an expensive prototype from Lian-Li or Zahlman. Love the custom CPU cooler idea.

Claudia Unit: Filimon always amazes with his incredible attention to detail. He puts in as much into a mouse as most builders put into an entire scratch-built case. Whatever this is to be will be awesome.

GraniteCase: The sheer audacity to build a case (including the power button) out of granite has to be applauded. Looks awesome.

L3: Very nice professional looking mod. A case I'd be proud to own. The only real "mod" in the contest.

All good choices. Tough call but in the end Tiny HTPC gets my vote because of the simple elegance and the custom cooler.

Already voted and leave clear that the project Hephæstus, by Yemerich, MoTM is, without doubt, ok.

Greetings

Lairmor

Vote to Hephæstus, is clean with a unic design. great job

Originally Posted by Cheapskate
It's a South American invasion!:)

Indeed

No offense or anything, but this is getting just too freakint thick. I wouldn't mind seeing the vote limitations get cranked higher up because it's PRETTY obvious one of the projects has been seriously pimped somewhere and I just don't think that goes along with the idea of the MOTM...

It might be just me being wrong, but cmon...

Originally Posted by Jipa
No offense or anything, but this is getting just too freakint thick. I wouldn't mind seeing the vote limitations get cranked higher up because it's PRETTY obvious one of the projects has been seriously pimped somewhere and I just don't think that goes along with the idea of the MOTM...

It might be just me being wrong, but cmon...

First of all i am not ofended, it's ok. It's pretty obvious the invasion. What happens is that the people that is posting here were modders from the brazilian comunity (most of them) that was with me since the project firstly came back on december of 07. I have a worklog there that is 16 pages long, and lots of visualizations. This mod came out on a magazine first as a project, wich called much attention to it. I invited them to vote on MotM in a post. I didn't asked for votes. They voted because they wanted to. But none of the new votes count, so no harm.

What makes me sad is knowing that many of the voters in here didn't cared to take a look on the worklogs. They voted based on the pictures on the article. Don't get me wrong, the pictures are the best from each of the projects, and the text is much better than I couldn't describe my own mod better. But Hephaestus is like 30% done and i think the idea behind the MotM is wich PROJECT is better. If the final result was the case, them the MotM would be made just with finished cases

It might be just me being wrong, but cmon...

It’s comic to see some guys just voting for compatriotism, invitation or request. it seems like a crazy “war” while the MOTM competition just sinks into oblivion. let’s focus on the competition and have a reliable vote.

Originally Posted by Yemerich
SNIP But Hephaestus is like 30% done and i think the idea behind the MotM is wich PROJECT is better. If the final result was the case, them the MotM would be made just with finished cases

It might be just me being wrong, but cmon...

I agree, it should only be finished cases, this would make it fairer.
I've mentioned this before but nobody at bit-tech is listening.

Hello friends.

Why do not look as follows, "Do not think at this site can do for you Americans, but what can you do to improve this site," ok!

Best Regards

Lairmor

Originally Posted by oldnewby
it should only be finished cases, this would make it fairer.

Absolutely. That would make things easier for the people with short attention-spans that do not feel it necessary to spend a few minutes to read a bloody worklog. That gets under my skin. Read the damn logs, ya buncha noobs! :p

Someone's case which was just started, so it's not too far along against a spit-and-polished beaut of a finished case does seem unfair.

Finished against finished would make sense. I also kind of wish there were MOD of the Month as well as a SCRATCH-BUILD of the Month competitions, because technically a scratch-build isn't a "mod", as in modification of a stock product. But I digress.

Originally Posted by E.E.L. Ambiense
Absolutely. That would make things easier for the people with short attention-spans that do not feel it necessary to spend a few minutes to read a bloody worklog. That gets under my skin. Read the damn logs, ya buncha noobs! :p

Someone's case which was just started, so it's not too far along against a spit-and-polished beaut of a finished case does seem unfair.

Finished against finished would make sense. I also kind of wish there were MOD of the Month as well as a SCRATCH-BUILD of the Month competitions, because technically a scratch-build isn't a "mod", as in modification of a stock product. But I digress.

Also agreed - I've seen a few mods that started out looking like they'd be great but ...., and others that looked only OK turned out to be awesome by the time they were done.

As for splitting mods and scratch builds; I would like that but it might be trickier than it sounds: there are quite a few mods that straddle both categories. It's been pointed out that we have only one true "mod" in this contest (L3 by ModimusPrime) and I agree true but what if pieterveenstra had glued his granite to an existing case? - would it then be a "true mod" too? - It wouldn't look any different from the outside.

Perhaps we need another thread in which to discuss such a split?

Originally Posted by E.E.L. Ambiense
I also kind of wish there were MOD of the Month as well as a SCRATCH-BUILD of the Month competitions,

This would add to complexity., also I've seen plenty of case "mods" that can hold their own against any "scratch build".
But I think a side benefit of having only finished cases in the MOTM is that if you look over the past couple of months
there is seldom more than a handful of completed cases every month, so this means that virtually all mods can be included
in the comp.Let the readers sort out the best cases instead of a handful of Bit-Tech staff.