With the help of NYC Resistor, Flickr user revolvingdork etched the entire world map of Super Mario Land for the Nintendo Gameboy on the case of his Eee netbook. I assume he used a pattern he found on the Internet, but I could probably have managed to do this from memory, given an appropriate, pea-soup-green netbook lying around and a stray etcher.
Etching Overview [Flickr via Hack A Day]
Are shops that’ll do this for you pretty common? Anyone know of one in Los Angeles?
@1: Agreed, not the best looking design from a distance, but still pretty neat when you get up close.
Cool idea… but it’s ugly.