Pauric OCallaghan constructed a wooden case for his wireless router and used an analog RPM gauge to show the network utilization. It would look good with a stained glass computer case.
Pauric says:
I grew up in and around boats making wiring looms and control panels, and have a collection of gauges & dials that would normally be found connected to small marine diesel engines. Today I work as a designer building interfaces to networking equipment. As such, I like re-using the old analogue gauges to display network information in a more human readable analogue form. Tying my past to the present to some degree.
I used a 3″ rev counter, simple clean design, that came of one of the boats my dad owned when I was a kid and wired it in to a wireless router I had lying around at work. The rev counter is a rough approximation of the traffic utilization between my home network and the internet.
Pauric is the Principal Architect for User Interface Design at 3Com. I’ve been waiting to post this while he’s been building his website (also very cool) so you could see his very impressive resume. He’s is also the guy behind this chumby case, the elegantly simple cable bone, and the very cool tabbed maps at Make (built on Platial Mapkit). See more of his creations at his site.
