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Aquarium Modcase

Posted by Hemos on from the getting-the-machine-running dept.

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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  1. Great... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    This puts a whole new spin to Netscape's Amazing Fishcam.

  2. Aquarium Monitor by kyoorius · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I did an aquarium monitor roughly a year ago.

    http://www.techfreakz.org/fishmon/

    I can't see their website now because it's /.'d but it would probably complement the case.

  3. Running? by Bobman1235 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

  4. What I would Actually like to see. by SubjunctiveSam · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

    1. Re:What I would Actually like to see. by spinozaq · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Ever heard of "Florinert" (TM from 3M corp) It's the chemical used to cool Crays. It a completely electricly inert liquid. It's also nearly perfectly chemically inert as well. New it runs at about 500 bucks a gallon. I found 2 gallons back in the year 2000 but my apartment burned down that year and poof.. no more florinert. I was going to create a lexane case and run the machine under florinert. Oh well, maybe I'll find some more.

  5. Re:Yummy Goldfish for dinner. by (54)T-Dub · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Thx to Pompatus below for pointint out The Real Deal

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  6. Re:how about an Electric Eel? by Mooncaller · · Score: 2, Interesting
    An electric eel would be cool. Might fry some ICs though. But who cares about the MB when you got an Electric Eel Casemod. In fact, the fact that the fish frys the MB just adds to the coolness factor.

    P.S. Just in (um) case anyone thinks of doing this, electric eels are large (1 to over 2 meters!), difficult to handle, voracious, and sensitive to bright light. Feed them live food at night, and provide places to hide.

  7. Re:Macquariums with real fish! by towad · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And here's one that actually runs.

  8. Re:Is that liquid cooling ? by xThinkx · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm way ahead of you there, been working on one for quite some time (with not too much success).

    There are several issues with hamster cases. Firstly, hamsters/gerbils/mice/most rodents CHEW on everything, so I had to find a way to protect the pieces of the comp from the hamster (and vice/versa). Secondly, hamsters will even CHEW through most protection (including plastic), so I had to come up with yet another solution. Thirdly, hamsters need bedding, and they "go potty" in that bedding. Even in a well vented case, that leaves a lot of moisture in the air and degrades the integrity of the computer parts. However one cool idea i've had and got pseudo-working for the hamster cage is actually monitoring the speed that the hamster wheel is moving.

    Fortunately I've been testing out the designs with old parts so it hasn't been that much of an expensive deal so far, however I'm approaching a long-term working solution, and will post pics/schematics when I'm done.

    As a sidenote, I'm working on a REAL fishtank mod also. Someone had posted another design for a fishtank case where the tank is seperate from the comp, I'm working on a little more "integration" if you will. I'm also working on a lizard mod too, using the vent heat from the fans as a "heat rock" for the little guys. The lizard mod may be the first finished as lizards don't chew, thrive in the heat, can deal with certain cold cathode tubes for light, and don't require too much attention otherwise.

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  9. Re:A P4 could... by (startx) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    or if you wait 11 minutes you could fry an egg on an AMD athlon XP 1500+.