I came across an article today speaking about a guy in Sweeden who put together a linux-based 3D rendering farm that he could run in his own house.  The remarkable part: he built a six-node cluster and used an Ikea Helmer drawer unit as the case… for all six nodes.

Image courtesy helmer.sfe.se

It’s an amazing piece of engineering, yet so simple in concept.  Janne has provided a bunch of other pictures on his website.  They’re worth a look.  A perfect example of function over form, and simply doing what’s necessary to “make it work”.

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