A player returns from vacation and is amazed when he comes home. His gaming mouse is stuck in a block of plastic. Behind this lies a revenge act from an acquaintance. Because he had played a similar prank on him.
A player expresses his confusion, saying that he had been on a nice vacation for two weeks. However, he experienced the big surprise only when he returned home and went back to his desk. He posted on reddit a picture with the note: Someone had encased his gaming mouse in resin.
What is behind this action? The player explains that it is a revenge act from an acquaintance. Because when he was on vacation, he took the liberty of planting watercress in his keyboard.
The whole action is not a great loss by the way. The player wrote that it was a mouse that cost two euros.
Some people from the community are already joking: The resin with which the mouse was encased probably cost more than the player’s cheap mouse.
Resin is mainly used in 3D printing today
What is resin actually? Resin is usually a casting resin, which is obtained from the drying of natural resins. Resin is primarily used in 3D printing today, as fine structures can be formed with resin. Resin should not be confused with epoxy resin, which has similar properties but hardens by itself. Resin requires UV light to truly cure.
Encasing hardware in resin is rather unusual, because the hardware is usually no longer usable afterward. Even if one should manage to free the hardware from the resin. A YouTuber came up with the controversial idea of encasing Gameboy devices in resin and building a desk out of it. The angry reactions from players were not long in coming. In the end, more than seven million people watched the action.
Are there also positive examples? Especially in case modding, materials and products from 3D printing are often used. For one of the most exciting PC systems, the developer Inony from Thailand took a shark as inspiration. You can view the little masterpiece on MeinMMO: One of the most exciting gaming PCs looks like a shark – This is how it was built
