Comments on: Burning Man: Musical Mac Laptops in Home-Built Bio-Hazard Boxes

By: Create Digital Music » DustBook: Another DIY Solution for Burning Man Desert Performances

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:40:35 +0000

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By: Moldover

Moldover — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:27:51 +0000

That’s a great setup. I’ve been bringing my laptop to the playa for several years now. My solution this year was a modified briefcase: pic 1 pic 2 pic 3 I made a mount for my MIDI controller to sit right on ontop of the open case. This minimized my footprint which was very helpful. The case worked like a charm at night but it would overheat during the day. The quick fix was to put it ontop of a bag of ice. (Not very elegant, but still effective!) Next year I’m going to check out liquid or dry-ice cooling systems…

By: Gadgetnfo » DIY “Bio-Hazard” Containment Cases for Mac ‘Books

Sun, 10 Sep 2006 21:52:55 +0000

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By: Chris Martinez

Chris Martinez — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:23:21 +0000

i’ts all good… I just put up a new video on http://www.myspace.com/effect69 of our recent “trip” to burningman. The video is for our new single “SuperStars” take a peek when you have a chance.
cheers,
c

By: Patrick Gavin

Patrick Gavin — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 21:41:34 +0000

Sorry. No pics. :(

So long ago…

By: Chris Martinez

Chris Martinez — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 21:33:34 +0000

We had originally built the boxes to be closed but ran out of time the table was the bottom. We had no filtration system but did think about it if the box was closed. You can remove the gloves so that helped with some venting. We played at night so had no real problems with heat. During set up in the afternoon we had some heat issues of course. Really it was a Ã¢â‚¬Å“TurntableÃ¢â‚¬Â? dust cover that looked cooler…;) 2.0 should be better I want to add a door and some sort of opening for cables.
Thanks for checking it out! do you have any pics of your stuff?
cheers,
c

By: Patrick Gavin

Patrick Gavin — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 20:59:04 +0000

That’s awesome. Was there an air filtration system, or was it completely closed? If closed, did the Pbooks get hot?

The times I’ve taken ‘puters to the playa, I’ve done a filtration system for the CPU and open monitor and keyboard.