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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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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 guy put an ant farm in his case.
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 can get the kit for this mod at Think Geek: http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cases/6151/
No, no you route your watercooling system to use the aquarium water. Keeps the fish warm and your processor cool (tropical fish like warm water). And you can get fish to eat the algae.
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
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 ;))
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.
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 believe this is what you are looking for. I thought about doing it, but $700 is a bit much for a computer case, no matter how cool it is.
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Squirrel
people have been doing this for years with old macs
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.
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...
...would that be a school of fish?
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.