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[Update 06/01/04 - 22:45:59]
Calder-A has been turned into this.

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Alexander Calder would have enjoyed this.

After returning from my travels in Mexico and WaDC/NYC/Boston, I decided to get serious and finish a project I'd backburnered for two years: Building the support frame for Calder-A.

The machine specs are:

• Gateway 2000 Tolstoy (Intel) Motherboard. (Part No. 4000431)
• Celeron 300A on Slotket.
• 256MB PC100 SDRAM.
• Onboard NV3T (Riva 128) AGP Video.
• Onboard Ensoniq ES1373 Audio.
• RealMagic Hollywood Plus MPEG2 Decoder Card.
• NetGear FA310TX 10/100 Ethernet Card.
• Aureal Vortex 1 Audio Card.
• Maxtor 20GB IDE Drive.
• Ricoh MP9060A (P.O.S.) 1st-Generation DVD/CD-RW Drive.
• 250W ATX Power Supply
• ~300 penny counterweight. (and counting...)

The frame specs are:

• 20 feet of 1/2" copper piping.
• nine 1/2" copper tees
• eight 1/2" copper end caps
• two 1/2" copper elbows
• 3 paint sticks (for the switchboard)
• 1 copper fastener

Oh yeah, in the right hand image above, the computer doesn't actually lean like that. I kept everything as orthogonal as possible during the soldering process and it's just a trick of the webcam optics that produces the visual warp.