I am not going to fake my dwelling workplace was ever tidy however since becoming a member of the {hardware} workforce, my far-from-spacious Micke desk from Ikea has been besieged. Even one thing as simple and needed as upgrading my desktop setup for work has solely served to spotlight simply how little house I’ve received to play with—thoughts, all of my Miku Hatsune figures most likely do not assist the house equation, however they are surely non-negotiable. If some out-there tech maker was to, say, rock up with a radically space-saving setup, I might be all ears.
Properly, the newest challenge from YouTuber Principally Homeless has mined a space-saving resolution from someplace you’d discover in virtually each PC gaming setup—particularly, the chair (through Hackaday). However this challenge would not simply slot a Raspberry Pi behind the headrest and name it a day; the aim was a largely invisible, “no compromises setup” with an allowance for just one trailing wire.
Utilizing the C7 Max premium ergo workplace chair from FlexiSpot as a base for the PC’s unlikely case, the tech creator set to work sourcing desktop-grade elements sufficiently small to suit someplace inside.
Drilling holes all through the wheel base, to not point out feeding the facility cable by means of in such a approach that it would not instantly get snarled up by the chair’s castors, was arguably the simple half. Past merely utilizing small type issue elements, the tech creator additionally had to determine the place the elements have been going to even match. After some intense Tetris-ing, the elements discovered their dwelling proper beneath the seat.
50 mm aluminium spacers assist the wood base of the seat, whereas permitting for a really slender quantity of house under for an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU, a low-profile Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 GPU flipped sideways, and 64 GB of DDR5 RAM. However slightly than depart this hefty {hardware} uncovered, the maker as an alternative spent months 3D modelling and printing a bespoke housing for it. You possibly can obtain the recordsdata for it from the free tier of the creator’s Patreon in case you additionally occur to wish to make your individual FlexiSpot C7 Max stealth PC.
The (removed from) remaining assemblage of the challenge simply underlines how area of interest and impractical it’s for many—particularly when the YouTuber’s heavily-used Asus GPU decides to not energy on correctly, and the chair needed to be pried aside to swap it out. Anyway, trials and tribulations apart, the PC chair does finally energy on absolutely, guaranteeing toasty buns for each gamer that perches upon its fairly highly effective seat.
In case you fancy crafting your individual small type issue PC construct—chair-shaped or in any other case— place to start out is with our information to the finest Mini-ITX motherboards. If, like me, you merely take pleasure in bearing witness to the exhausting work of others’, might I like to recommend angling your peepers to this unimaginable 3D printed Palico PC case that was on show at Computex 2025? You are darn tootin’ I will maintain bringing that one up at each alternative. In case you’re nonetheless trying to improve however out there for one thing a lot much less showy, you may take a gander at our finest mini PCs information as an alternative.
