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Aquarium Modcase
zeptic writes "How about an aquarium in your running computer? This casemod shows you how it's done. The cool pictures can be found on the same site page, and there is an English summary on the last page."
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Do they come in the pretty colors.
to electrocute yourself. Leave the fish out of it!
Fishy go BZZZT!
We recently had heard in the office over one of the Yellow Machine that's made by Anthology Solutions.
This is really neat thing to do.. For all who do mod up there pc box they do look cool. BUT.. is it just a waste of money.. I guess it is depnding on how many people look at your computer.. i don't know i wanted to buy some PC light of Think Geek.. But no one looks at mine but me..
Overclock your CPU and GPU and get free fish soup! Just add carrots!
GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
This puts a whole new spin to Netscape's Amazing Fishcam.
On the plus side, it would be a quick and easy way to make dinner. George Foreman, eat your heart out...
Goo goo g'joob.
...it's not really possible to make a "stable mod" where your case would host a stable with a mare inside :)
Maybe with some old glassfet computers, but not the small modern ones.
This guy put an ant farm in his case.
woowoo That site is loading slow and getting /.ed
but this picture ( http://www.hardware-test.dk/images/litteratur/th-2 013-14.jpg )
Is worth checking it out... That just looks *COOL*
Though, I wonder about algae growth due to heat.
anime+manga together at last.. in real time.
boil a fish in twenty seconds.
Fill it with grease and you've got yourself fried flounder.
Say hello to the new dorm microwave.
Alex.
You don't even need an external heater for your tropical fish!
I thought someone actually put an aquarium in their case, instead of that cheesy ass storebought Lian-Li side panel.. That 3dhardware guy (the guy with the video reviews) did one of these a long time ago... for shame zeptic
Hamster Pc Case !
You can get the kit for this mod at Think Geek: http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cases/6151/
Well, this is a fast way to find out how toxic your computer components are.
Also keep in mind some while water does not conduct electricity (chlorine and other city additives do) some of the waste products produced by marine critters will short circuit your gear eventually.
This probably is a good idea for freshwater fish only. The salt from marine water will likely kill your gear.
Nice job to all. Haven't we all thought about trying this?!
Like THAT site is gonna last long.
--LordKaT
That's a fake plastic fish aquarium! Now show me a REAL one and it might be interesting...
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You know, if you used the aquarium as part of your cpu cooling system, you can have pre-cooked fish for every meal! Very efficient, cost-effective, and downright healthy!
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
They're plastic fish! This is nothing new, you can buy these cases off the shelf.
Because they're going to have to like warm water.
I thought a PC case was a metal box to stop EM radiation/interference etc surely cutting huge holes in your case isnt going to do much other than piss off the local Taxi firm,ham radio,cb,baby alarms,ambulances,fire tenders,baby alarms,police oh and probably kill the fish.
why bother having interference laws and emission regulations egh ?
You wouldn't believe it. I'm going to turn my case into a hampster cage! That's right, wheel and all. Bernards water bottle will be hooked up to my water cooling system. It's going to be soo cool.
You might drive your favorite Linux Distro crazy with lunch just out of reach!
I did an aquarium monitor roughly a year ago.
/.'d but it would probably complement the case.
http://www.techfreakz.org/fishmon/
I can't see their website now because it's
That's really gross.
Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains.
Thinkgeek has been selling these very things for ages. Same case, same aquarium kit. Did he buy the thing from Thinkgeek? (apologies if it says in the article... my German is just a little rusty ;))
I don't know what the heck is wrong with their pages. Even before they got slashdotted, they were messed up. This mirror is being built as we speak.
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
From the pics it doesn't look like this "computer" has any computer components in it. Like, drives, a motherboard... anything? He mentions having a hard drive mounted on the bottom, and I see that picture, but other than that... Is this a case mod or a fish tank in a computer case? I'm not very impressed by the latter.
I suppose this could be better explained if I could read German.
This looks fishy!
Put and take in a case, no way.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
They are made of plastic.
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Yeah! Now we can have our screen saver and Applications running at the same time! WooHoo! And the Screen Saver won't take up any CPU cycles. Too bad we can have something other than fishies :>
This product is available from thinkgeek.com - a company owned by the same company that owns slashdot I believe.
Excellent product, I thought of buying it. Might still, my daughter's clunker is boring as anything.
But should slashdot be pushing product like this?
M@
Krispy Cream is people
Yawn.
Here's an idea for a casemod that would actually impress me:
Get some expensive pure water, some with NO corrosive dissolved oxygen, and completely electrically neutral, meaning no OH- and H+ ions. I realize that water is self-ionizing, so the removal of these ions might need to be continuous.
Unpack, assemble, and run your awesome computer in a container full of this stuff.
I don't care how expensive or chemically unfeasible that would be, but that would actually be impressive. I've heard of computers running submerged in vegetable oil before, since vegetable oil is made of large covalent molecules, but I don't care. I want an underwater computer.
I don't know if this was posted online before or after the German site, but here's another aquarium case. And this one has real fish in the case (neon tetras, according to the writeup).
Goo goo g'joob.
Now I'm going to stare at my case rather than my fishy screen saver.
The proper thing would be an ANT FARM , especially if you run Microsoft stuff on the box.
What if you combined this with another project?
I suppose all of that Fluorinert probably wouldn't be too good for the fishies, though.
Hypothetically, could oxygen even be dissolved in Fluorinert? (I'm thinking not as it's probably a nonpolar fluid, but whatever)...
"How about an aquarium in your running computer?"
How about not?
The coolest voice ever.
Note: site is /.ed so claims of plastic fish are questionably.
Before the heat question, did any fool consider what the hell being that close to that much EM is going to do to the fish? All fish use (to a greater or lesser degree) a lateral line system (a series of sensors embedded in their scales running horizontally along their bodies) which uses EM fields for navigation. Fish like The Clown Knife and the Elephant Fish are nocturnal hunters and use their LLS exclusively.
This idea is about as cruel and stupid as trapping your average socially crippled geek in a cage with the Sunday potluck crowd. How would you feel after the first hour? The second day? The third week?
What cruel and thoughtless stupidity will the human race come up with next?
flames > dev/null
That is the most killer case mod I have ever seen. If you are going to take the time to mod your case, you might as well make a it a real product of artistic and creative expression and go all out like this.
From the site:
"Sa plumpes de i akvariet, og en god ide er at lade 3 af fiskene svomme den ene vej og 3 de 3 sidste den anden vej, idet de ikke kan vende sig rundt, nar de er kommet i."
Which translates roughly into (its danish):
"Next they are put into the aquarium, and it is a good idea to let 3 of the fish swim one way and the last 3 the other way, since they can't turn after they are put in."
Isn't that slightly cruel?
http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cases/6169/
It's a Lian-Li case with a window with fake fish. Nothing too exciting, here...
people have been doing this for years with old macs
You can buy this kind of cases at least from Barcelona (from about every shop in c/ Sepulveda).
no, wait for it...
SCHOOL of those!!!
I don't see the point in this article. This is a German review of a Lian-Li case (yes, the case includes an aquarium). There is no modding involved, it's all stock hardware.
I would'nt call a clear hollow panel filled with toys and water an aquarium. Note, if anyone gets the idea to do something like this with real fish, be sure to use a titanium anode to pull the water to ground potential. Transient currents can play havoc with some fishes. Guppies probably would work best. They are pretty immune to current transients and can tollerate temps up to 35C. Guppies are also not bothered too much by light coming in at strange angels. One more point, concidering the small surface area, one will need to turn the water over at least 5 times/hour.
how else is the oss community supposed to raise funds to pay their developers?
bite my glorious golden ass.
spray-painted a motherboard, and had some fun running it underwater, going to try some other shit soon... We were talking about using clear spraypaint next time. We also talked about making a fishtank, but as people we don't really give a shit about fish, so we'll just get cheap goldfish whenever we want to show it off.
... that will stop the cat from walking on my keyboard. If I can keep him transfixed on the fish he won't bother me.
Saw this at the Nvidia(?) booth at LinuxWorld last week (Moscone Center, San Francisco). Funny.. more interesting than the droid I spent 10 seconds talking to...
I have something in common with Stephen Hawking...
Now I consider myself a serious geek, and I seldom ask "Why?", but in this case (pun intended) I think this is truly a purposeless and possibly dangerous mod.
What's next? The urinal case mod?
I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
That's nothing - my friend at college uses the heat in his computer to grow psychedelic mushrooms.
He was going to put a website up about it, but then he got high...
"It's a Lian-Li case with a window with fake fish. Nothing too exciting, here..."
How about a large hologram of the inside of a computer. Or someone could take a fluorescent nonconductive ink, and outline all the traces on their MB, then hit it with UV (kind of a TRON look).
Or a laser light show controlled by the PC. Shining (from inside the case) onto a frosted window. Maybe even display the stats.
Or maybe utilize all that heat to make a lava lamp in the case. Or maybe make a small kinetic sculpture that's heat-sensitive.
Or maybe going with an "engine" motif. The MB is enclosed in a metal shell (which doubles as a faraday cage), with water hoses translucent (look a bit like those round IDE cables), or maybe stainless-steel leaving going to the radiater (looking like an aluminum car radiator). All this mounted in an acrylic case.
The aquarium is less than an inch thick!
What on *earth* is a modcase!??!?!?!?
Vote for global prefs bug
Kids: Aye-aye Captain.
Captain: I can't hear you...
Kids: Aye-Aye Captain!!
Captain: Oh! Who lives in a pineapple in your computer?
Kids: SpongeBob NerdPants!
Captain: Irradiated and bleached-out and dying is he!
Kids: SpongeBob NerdPants!
Captain: If nautical nonsense be something you wish...
Kids: SpongeBob NerdPants!
Captain: Then stick an aquarium in your fucking computer!
Kids: SpongeBob NerdPants!
Captain: Ready?
EveryBody: SpongeBob NerdPants! SpongeBob NerdPants! SpongeBob NerdPants!
Captain: SpongeBob.... NerdPants! Haha.
Cue intel theme , but nautical like
It's been done for real before... Aqua Tank
At least watercooling offers some kind of benefit for the risk taken...
...would that be a school of fish?
If you put an electric eel in it, will it also serve as a power supply? :P
John Kerry is a Joke!
How do you lug that sumbitch to a LAN party?
And hope you dont have any cheats on the game...
Ugh!
= Grow a brain...
... unless its got living fish in it.
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You posted a link to something that pleasures women. Any slashdotter is utterly confused at the concept, and since ignorance breeds fear, they modded you down in a haste of terror. Just FYI.
Nothing geekier than following the instructions, hunh?!
An electric eel could do cool things like power the idiotic glowing cables that hardcore case modders buy from TigerDirect.
The flag just makes more sense than the constitution. - Judas Gutenberg
I like the MacQuarium better...
/. these servers, hit 1 and choose randomly :)
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Try not to
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http://www.techquarium.com/
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In case you missed this when it was posted before or in the other posts in this thread, someone did make a real aquarium mod.
In Soviet Russia, we put sturgeon in our wet cases. Da, they could turn around.
To this neon foolishness, we say Nyet!
I saw it set up in at a computer shop here in .au in late June. They sell the aquarium window as well.
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security. --Edmund Burke
Why settle for fish, when you can overclock some lobster!!!
Mmmm... Needs butter!
These were at Linux world, but they had no pricing info. Everybody thoguht they were cool, no one bought one that I know of. Seems cool for the first day, after that, give me the fog machine....
sounds like a product Apple would offer.
People seem concerned with the electrical current's effect on the fish, but, having killed my share of goldfish in my day, I'd be more concerned with the changes in water temperature between when the thing was running and when it was not.
Somebody might be doing a lot of scooping.
.... My fish got sucked into my waterblock. All these gooey bits will take a year to clean out.. X(
De-ionized water is one of the best solvents known to man. It will litterally eat everything out of the computer in effort to get some impurities.
My uncle specalizes in water quality. He can get you water that measures 18 megaohms resistence. pour some directly from the pipe to a clean glass and you will measure no more than 12 megaohms. In the short time it takes to measure, water has absorbed that many impurities from the air.
Take the pure water (actually de-ionized, impurities are allowed so long as they are not ions...) and and put it into a computer and it will remove the metal from the etching on the board to get some impurities.
Those fish ain't real.
Very disappointing.
What about rigging up a casemod whereby the interior is actually a lizard 'cage'. Nice and warm inside of a PC, especially the heatsink on the CPU.
Hell (heheh) why not just use one of those standard plexiglass-sided cases STOCK? I'd just make sure that the little beastie living inside couldn't some how electrocute it's little self. Load up some really burly-configured linux/bsd and just see how long the thing would run, both contending with lizard poop and any other accumulated detritus as well as bugs...
Hey this might be the answer to how to keep me from trying to code. All I have to do is type things like itsString = which I do quit often and bingo PawSense will guess the string is a cat request and won't know the diff!
Of course I might have a problem when I cat | diff myself!
But that has always been problematic anyway.
OH THE SHAME I fell off the wagon and use sigs again!
You can purchase this casemod from ThinkGeek.
It's been available there for some time now..
Electronics have been running in oils for many many years. My experience is with Coolanol used in radar and jammer transmitters. Trouble is it is a VERY fine oil and will get EVERYWHERE no matter how hard you try! A single drop of this stuff on a vinyl floor mat spread to six feet diameter in an hour. The stuff won't stay put. Eats glue too. The vinyl matting came up from our floor as the oils soaked in underneath the well sealed surface.
How do you avoid killing the fish ?
Better not use an Athlon for this.
I've always been partial to this one http://www.bobafettm.com/station.htm
Besides, people are only just coming to terms with the whole Germany=DE country code thing (makes perfect sense if you speak Deutsche), so I can understand Denmark=DK may seem a bit too sensible. :)
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Hey guys nice job on the case and all ... but I was the original ! :) If anyone reads Deadly.org they will remember my modded case!
http://www.bobafettm.com/station.htm
real fish... real server...
here.
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
NOw as long as you have the fake fish in there, why not turn it into some kind of repository for all of the hardcore overclockers out there that water cool their processors. The you would have a wicked cool case mod and a fairly large water resovoir for all your water cooling needs. ;)
Read the flurry article, ppl - this is not a home-made case mod, it's a product review. Treat it accordingly.
SIG: TAKE OFF EVERY 'CAPTAIN'!!
discussed previously on /. at http://slashdot.org/articles/02/01/28/133218.shtml
I have a friend who is both a computer geek and a keeper of tropical fish. He has a very large tank in his lounge (nearly two metres long) which is also used to cool his dual Athlon server. The computer is not fed water straight from the tank, that would be silly, he has a heat exchanger and pump system underneath the gravel bed which circulates water from the tank to the CPUs and back again in a closed loop.
Ed Almos
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. - Tacitus, 56-120 A.D.
This could be ideal for one of those fish restaurants where you select the live fish you want to eat. The surplus heat from your computer keeps the aquarium at the right temperature, while the water from the aquarium keeps the EPOS (Electronic Point of Sale) cool!
If lobster was involved, then the aquarium could become an instant cookpot by pressing the turbo button on your PC (overclocking your machine and increasing the CPU heat output!)
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Specifically, cutting a hole in the wall between living room and family room to install 200 gallon freshwater.
My wife thinks it's a great idea.
who thought of this while I was reading the article?
When you want to overclock your computer - like at a lan-party, and you're playing Counter-Strike, you could irritate the eel to get that extra bit of power. Of course your eel might get tired after a while..
..........FULL STOP.
If anyone's interested, Thinkgeek sells a mod to do this to your existing case, and a case. They're a bit pricey, though.
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There was a kit available at one time that turned an old Mac Plus or Mac SE into an aquarium . . .
That one was reviewed at another site in february. here.
The "-ium" suffix implies an ion... an ammonium ion is NH4+.
"AMMONIA" is NH4.
P.S. Someone tell the /. people they need to enable subscripts and superscripts in HTML.
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