Posts
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Taking stock
I've now reviewed all of round 3 (6): eight sub-chapters and thirty designs.
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Retro-futurism
The last batch is the future as people used to imagine it: the space age of the late 1960s, and the early 1980s in Milan.
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Nature
Batch four goes to nature: things that move air, or were made by heat.
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Architecture
Batch three is buildings, specifically three whose shape comes from how they work.
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Ten racks
My home lab contains five N100 mini PCs running as servers.
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Teenage Engineering
Batch two is Teenage Engineering, the Stockholm company behind the OP-1.
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Supercomputers
Seventeen designs in, I changed the brief.
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The Apple round
Then I asked for five designs, each as Apple as Claude could make it.
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The sysadmin round
After the Neo-Braun round (6.1) I asked for five very techy, sysadmin-style designs.
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The Neo-Braun round
After round 2 (5) I asked for five Neo-Braun designs.
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Round 3
Round 3 is all about the look.
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B2, Blade Tower
B (3.2) had the best air path and the worst stance: it was a cube.
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A2, Sled Tower
A2 is A (3.1) with a control bay and lights.
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The controller
On the controller
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Round 2
Round 2 takes A and B (4) and gives them a brain.
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Choosing
Claude's pick was D with a steel plate in the base, for the look, or A for servicing and stability.
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D, Monolith
A tall slab of five stacked cells, every board face on behind one tall front panel, on a wider plinth.
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C, Pentagon Column
One board on each face of a pentagonal column, components facing out behind five windows.
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B, Blade Rack
The five boards stand on edge, side by side, like blade servers.
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A, Sled Tower
Five boards lie flat on trays that slide in from the front, like a tiny server rack.