Oscar Trelles

The Computer of your Dreams?

This one has to be the one for me…

MODDER: Nick Pelis
Student, University of Colorado
Colorado Springs, Colorado

SPECS: Dual 1-GHz Intel Pentium III, 1 Gbyte RAM, 160-Gbyte RAID 1 hard disk, ATI All-In-Wonder videocard

TIME: 150 hours over three months

INSPIRATION: “I drink an obscene amount of coffee and spend way too much time on a computer. After breaking my third coffeemaker in one year, I decided to combine the two.”

CHALLENGE: “Engineering, engineering, engineering! I spent about a month brainstorming on napkins before I bought a single part.”

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